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Rabbi Steven Pruzansky, Senior Rabbinic Fellow for the Coalition for Jewish Values, comments that “there are certainly political and strategic benefits to the Israel-UAE agreement, but we will yet have to reckon with its spiritual fallout.”

Over 100 Jewish rabbis wrote a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, arguing “the SPLC ‘hate map’ is uniquely detrimental and even dangerous to the Jewish community.”

Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has been urged by 100 outstanding Orthodox Jewish rabbis throughout the U.S. to chop ties between the corporate’s AmazonSmile charitable initiative and the SPLC.

Rabbi Yaakov Menken, Managing Director, explained in an interview on Washington Watch with Tony Perkins that the SPLC displays a “very apparent bias to mask anti-Semitism coming from certain left-wing groups, especially those groups affiliated with radical Islam.”

A group of 100 Orthodox rabbis has called on Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos to stop relying on the Southern Poverty Law Center to determine which charities are eligible and which ones are “hate groups.” This piece was published in the Jewish Press, Cleveland Jewish News, and Vos Iz Neias.

Rabbi Yaakov Menken, Managing Director of the Coalition for Jewish Values, joins Tony Perkins to discuss a group of 100 Orthodox Jewish rabbis calling on Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to stop using the Southern Poverty Law Center as a source.

Rabbis affiliated with the Coalition for Jewish Values sent a letter to Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com on Sept. 1 asking him to terminate Amazon’s use of the SPLC list.

Some 100 Orthodox Jewish rabbis have signed onto a letter to Amazon President and CEO Jeff Bezos urging him to quit using the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “hate map” to determine which groups are eligible to participate in its charitable gift program.