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At Turning Point USA’s Teen Student Action Summit, we sit down with Rabbi Yaakov Menken, the Managing Director of the Coalition for Jewish Values. We discuss identity politics, anti-semitism, racism, and the “squad’s” accusations towards President Trump.

Rabbi Yaakov Menken of the Coalition for Jewish Values joins Jeff to discuss Al Sharpton’s recent attacks against the president, why he is somehow the media’s new darling and the truth about his history of race-baiting.

Two Democratic senators, both presidential candidates, have shown insensitivity to the Jewish community by praising anti-Semitic black leader Al Sharpton, who has incited violence against Jews.

Sharpton led protests against a Jewish-owned business in Harlem, calling the Jewish owner a “white interloper” in the neighborhood. One of the protesters later entered with a gun, shooting several customers and murdering seven employees by fire-bombing the store. Sharpton expressed disdain for the Jewish community by threatening to fight: “If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.”

Sharpton played a major role in the Crown Heights riots of 1991, which led to the murder of a young rabbinic student from Australia. Despite the violence Sharpton further inflamed Antisemitic passion, delivering a speech which referred to the Hatzolah ambulance service, a Jewish volunteer group which serves all New Yorkers, as “an apartheid ambulance service in the middle of Crown Heights,” starting chants of “No Justice – No Peace” and leading a march in which protesters displayed anti-Semitic signs and burned the Israeli flag.

The Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV) said statements of support for Rev. Al Sharpton from Senators (and Presidential candidates) Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren reflected ‘great insensitivity’ towards the Jewish community.

The Coalition for Jewish Values, a conservative national group representing more than 1,000 Jewish rabbis, sided with Miracle Hill and endorsed their practice of choosing Christians as foster parents. The CJV called opposition by the liberal Anti-Defamation League “a misinterpretation of the First Amendment that runs against Jewish beliefs and values.”

Menken told Campus Reform that Hebrew often gets treated differently “because it is the original language of the Bible. That version, which we call ‘lashon hakodesh,’ ‘the Holy Language,’ is still read and written today,” he explained, adding that “From a rabbinic perspective, the words of Genesis 1:27, ‘male and female He Created them,’ are not subject to change.”

Israel National News translated the CJV’s defense of Education Minister Peretz for its Hebrew-language site.

The Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV) came out Wednesday in defense of Israel’s Education Minister Rabbi Rafi Peretz after he was attacked for describing assimilation and intermarriage in the American Jewish community as being “like a second Holocaust.”