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“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.

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.

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.

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 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.”

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.’”

The Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV), representing more than 1000 traditional rabbis in matters of public policy, on Tuesday sent a letter to Representative Andy Levin (D-MI 9th District), expressing “grave concern” and asking him and 105 cosignatories, all of whom are Democratic members of the House of Representatives, to withdraw a letter they had sent last week to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

The Coalition for Jewish Values, an association of over 1,000 American Orthodox rabbis, strongly objected to the arguments put forward by the Democrats and rejected the assertions made in their letter to Pompeo.

The congressional letter to Mike Pompeo opposing his recognition of the legality of Israeli settlements; the failure of the peace-process and a two-state solution; Netanyahu’s indictment and the similarity between Israeli and American politics.

A prominent politically and religiously conservative Jewish organization took 106 House Democrats to task for signing a “false and misleading” letter with respect to the Trump administration’s recent unilateral decision to declare that so-called Israeli “settlements” are legal.