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Rabbi Steven Pruzansky on the Holy Land, and having the privilege of moving there following his retirement from Cong. Bnei Yeshurun.

Twitter banned accounts displaying the Star of David, in what Rabbi Menken termed a “ham-handed approach” that reflected “cultural insensitivity” to the Jewish community. Newsmax also asked about worship services during COVID-19 and the gradual re-opening.

A group of 10 Jewish organizations has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a discrimination case from the 1970s that involved a Jewish employee who couldn’t work on Saturdays—Shabbat or the Jewish Sabbath.

Rabbi Fischer on his piece, “Cry the Beloved Country.” All the leftists mouthing platitudes… are white. They’re talking BLM but tearing down the country.

Rabbi Yaakov Menken is Managing Director of The Coalition of Jewish Values and is a rabbinic authority and spokesperson for the authentic pro-life position in Jewish law. Rabbi Menken counters the ideals of these leftist movements and voices clear opposition to the pro-abortion position, explaining why Judaism considers all life sacred from conception.

Judaism teaches that every human life is valuable, born and unborn, Rabbi Yaakov Menken wrote earlier this month at Newsweek in response to claims that abortions are a “Jewish value.”

Eighteen major US Jewish organizations in the United States called on the US on Tuesday to exert pressure on Jordan’s King Abdullah to extradite Ahlam Tamimi, the Jordanian terrorist who orchestrated the 2001 Sbarro pizzeria bombing in Jerusalem that killed 15 people, including two American nationals.

Rabbi Menken said the only permissible violation of Shabbat is if a “lifesaving activity” must be performed. When a fetal life is in danger, then the law demands the Sabbath be violated in order to save the preborn baby. If the preborn were not seen as human, then this would not be the case.

Congregations re-opening, and — after 26 years at the pulpit at Congregation Bnai Yeshurun in Teaneck, NJ — Rabbi Pruzansky’s upcoming retirement in Israel.