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Coalition of Orthodox rabbis castigate congresswoman who compared detention centers for illegal immigrants to Nazi concentration camps.

For those who found his introductory broadside too subtle, Silberstein clarified: “it was still shocking to see Mr. Greenblatt appear at an event sponsored by a group as extreme as the Coalition for Jewish Values…led by some of the community’s deplorables.” For those unfamiliar, CJV, only two years old, is already the largest rabbinic public policy organization in the U.S., representing over 1,000 rabbis from across the spectrum of American Orthodoxy. “Deplorables.”

The gathering was hosted by The Coalition for Jewish Values, Jexodus, and the Young Israel of Kew Gardens Hills. The event drew about 150 invited guests. Mr. Greenblatt took questions from the audience for over two hours and answered with full candor. Also speaking was Richard Kemp, retired colonel in the British army and outspoken defender of Israeli Defense Forces.

The discussion covers Rabbi Schonfeld’s upcoming Shavuos program on Antisemitism, as well as Antisemitic attacks across the country and in Congress — along with an interesting discussion of Al Sharpton’s association with Antisemitism and violent attacks on Jews.

“That is a shameful way to describe a man known for anti-Semitic statements and incitement to violence,” said CJV president Rabbi Pesach Lerner. “Al Sharpton set race relations back years, and helped ignite a hostility towards Jews in the black community that persists to this day. For a Jewish organization to declare such a person a ‘civil-rights leader’ betrays both authentic civil rights and Jewish values.”

‘That is a shameful way to describe a man known for Antisemitic statements and incitement to violence,’ said Rabbi Pesach Lerner, President of the CJV.

Rabbi Chaim Goldberger, Rabbi Emeritus at Kenesseth Israel Congregation in Minneapolis and Regional Ambassador of the Coalition for Jewish Values, greeted Vice President Mike Pence upon his recent arrival in Minnesota.

Ilhan Omar, President Trump, the Mueller investigation, immigration… and the Mets.

CJV: ‘Violence against civilians is abhorrent in all cases, under all circumstances, and hate crimes have no place in civilized society.’

In a letter sent to the White House last week, leading pro-Israel leaders urged President Trump to support Netanyahu’s determination of Israel’s own sovereignty with respect to the Palestinian-Arabs. According to the Coalition for Jewish Values, which helped organize the letter, the missive “urg[es Trump] to permit Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a free hand to extend Israeli sovereignty over Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria.”