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‘Is it now the American way to discard an outstanding candidate,’ asked Rabbi Yoel Schonfeld, Vice President of the CJV, ‘based solely upon an uncorroborated, unsubstantiated accusation that is even contradicted by those named to support it?’

The Torah [requires] two witnesses, neither of whom was the accuser or any close relative of the accuser or the accused, [who] were fully investigated and interrogated before they were accepted. The Torah is very concerned about the rights and reputation of the accused, and that is the Jewish view.

The letter, sent Friday to university president Mark Schlissel, was signed by Jewish, Israel advocacy and political organizations and organized by the AMCHA Initiative, a nonprofit seeking to combat campus anti-Semitism.

The CJV compared the book’s theory to that of an essay published last year, which similarly claimed that the lack of rapes committed by IDF soldiers against Arab women was due to racism, rather than noble restraint and respect for human rights.

Rabbi Lerner: The Reform movement continues its campaign of fake news. They continuously lobby members of the Israeli government, MKs, the Israeli and American media, telling them, “We represent American Jewry … You need to listen to us … you need to meet our needs and demands.” But, it’s not true! The Reform movement is dying in America. Their leaders need some credibility, so they go to Israel and make demands.

When Pew reported last year that a minority of American Jews view evangelical Christians favorably, the Coalition for Jewish Values, a right-wing political organization of Orthodox rabbis, released a statement: “When people wish us well in this world, observant Jews recognize that this is generally a good thing, and trust that God knows how to sort everything out in the next.”

This year’s invite list included for the first time the Coalition for Jewish Values, a right-wing Orthodox rabbinic group. The CJV’s press release said that several other organizations were also invited to participate for the first time.

“Each and every one of these is something that his predecessors could have done, but did not. And so we owe him our repeated thanks. We were privileged to receive the President’s wishes for a blessed New Year,” said Rabbi Yaakov Menken, Managing Director of the Coalition for Jewish Values, one of the organizations invited to participate in the conference call.

The Trump Administration expanded its outreach to the Jewish community this year, according to the Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV), a young organization representing over 1000 rabbis nationwide.

A leader with the Coalition for Jewish Values said the 53-year-old federal court judge is a “very good, well-qualified justice” who has showed he supports protecting expressions of faith, even when they may “run against current cultural norms.”