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Detroit Jewish News: U.S. Immigration Policy Sparks Action in Michigan
Weisberg refers to the statements of a rabbinic organization, the Coalition for Jewish Values. Its vice president, Rabbi Yoel Schoenfeld, condemned the Obama administration’s policy “under which large numbers of illegal immigrants who infiltrated across the southern border in the U.S. were not prosecuted for the illegal entry.”
Washington Free Beacon: NYPD Makes Just One Arrest for Every Four Anti-Semitic Crimes, Data Show
Rabbi Yoel Schonfeld, rabbi of the Young Israel of Kew Gardens Hills Synagogue in New York City and vice president of the Coalition for Jewish Values, told the Free Beacon that the NYPD has been “extremely caring and vigilant, certainly in my community.”
Baltimore Jewish Life: Rabbis Warn Against Emboldening Iran
Iran is a rogue regime which has not only repeatedly threatened to destroy Israel, but has supported and initiated countless terror attacks against Jews,
Israel National News: Rabbinical organization: Reform doesn’t represent Diaspora Jews
Coalition for Jewish Values welcomes appointment of Tzipi Hotovely as Israel’s Diaspora Affairs Minister.
Baltimore Jewish Life: Rabbis to Reform Rabbi Rick Jacobs: Don’t Claim to Represent Diaspora Jewry
“Asking Rabbi Rick Jacobs for input on Israel is like asking a plumber a question on neurosurgery,” said Rabbi Pesach Lerner, President of the CJV.
Baltimore Jewish Life: Rabbis Call Attacks on Giuliani “Partisan Misuse of Anti-Semitism”
Rudy Giuliani became mayor in the wake of what he correctly called a pogrom against Hassidic Jews in Crown Heights, and made New York City profoundly safer for all.
LifeNews.com: Hey Nancy Pelosi, Where is Your “As a Catholic” When 61 Million Babies are Killed in Abortion?
Writing at Israel National News, Rabbi Dov Fischer, an adjunct law professor in California and fellow at the Coalition for Jewish Values, sympathized with devout Catholics who are frustrated by Pelosi.
Daily Wire: Pompeo Blasts House Democrats For ‘Foolish’ Stance On Israeli ‘Settlements’
Frequent Daily Wire contributor and CJV Managing Director Rabbi Yaakov Menken told The Daily Wire at the time: “Word to the wise: If you claim to be pro-Israel, and sign a letter regarding Israel along with Reps. Omar, Tlaib, and Ocasio-Cortez, you’re fooling no one but yourself.”
The Forward: Do The Orthodox Feel Adequately Supported By Other Jews After A Violent Attack?
“The Orthodox are the Jews’ Jews,” said Rabbi Yaakov Menken, the managing director of the Coalition for Jewish Values, a group of Orthodox rabbis. “There’s definitely been all sorts of deprecating comments within the Jewish community about how Orthodox Jews bring it upon themselves. Which is exactly what non-Jews say about Jews in general.”
LA Jewish Journal: Jewish Groups Respond to Trump’s IAC Speech
Coalition for Jewish Values Managing Director Rabbi Yaakov Menken defended the president saying that some Jews don’t love Israel enough, writing in a Dec. 9 op-ed for The Daily Wire that less than 40% of American Jews “strongly agree that ‘caring about Israel is a very important part of my being a Jew.’”