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The Coalition for Jewish Values, representing over 1,000 Orthodox rabbis across America, issued a sharp condemnation of Omar’s committee appointment, telling House Majority Leader Pelosi it was a “slap in the face” and claiming it is “tantamount to saying that anti-Semitism is acceptable.” The Coalition further noted that the Republican Party had stripped Rep. Steve King of all his committee assignments after he expressed a support for white nationalism last week.

McMaster wrote to HHS arguing that the ministry should receive a waiver of exemption … The Anti-Defamation League retorted with a letter of their own, urging the HHS to deny any exemption, which prompted a rebuke from the Coalition for Jewish Values with the support of more than 1,000 rabbis.

The Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV) today requested the reversal of regulatory changes ‘that demand religious organizations act contrary to their faith principles if they wish to aid America’s most vulnerable children.’

Rabbinical group: Rep’s appointment to House Foreign Affairs Committee ‘tantamount to saying that anti-Semitism is acceptable to US House.’

Today the Coalition for Jewish Values, which represents more than 1,000 rabbis on issues of public policy, delivered a letter to Pelosi, asking her to rescind her appointment of Omar to Foreign Relations.

The Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV), called the appointment of Representative Ilhan Omar to the House Foreign Affairs Committee a ‘slap in the face’ and ‘tantamount to saying that anti-Semitism is acceptable to the United States House of Representatives.’

The DNC acted correctly by rejecting a group taken over by women entirely too comfortable with Antisemitic hatred.

Yaakov Menken, managing director of the Coalition for Jewish Values, told JNS that “the House of Representatives is considering numerous other matters during the [government] shutdown, so we do not see why the Senate should be deemed incapable of walking and chewing gum at the same time. Legislation to fight anti-Semitism and enhance Middle East security should not be held hostage to a partisan fight, much less mischaracterized as threatening free speech.”

Rabbi Pesach Lerner, then Executive Vice President Emeritus of the National Council of Young Israel, and currently President of the Coalition for Jewish Values, had been the biggest public champion — other than Mrs. Pollard — of Mr. Pollard’s cause.

“While we may deplore many things that Ilhan Omar has said, this is not one of them,” said Rabbi Yaakov Menken, the managing director of the conservative Coalition for Jewish Values. “This is a protection of religious liberty.”