Op-Eds
Op-Eds by our Officers and Fellows do not necessarily represent the views or focus issues of the CJV.
![Rabbi Dov Fischer in The American Spectator: G-d’s Vibrant Hand in Our Lives and Destiny](https://coalitionforjewishvalues.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/sunrise.jpeg)
Rabbi Dov Fischer in The American Spectator: G-d’s Vibrant Hand in Our Lives and Destiny
We don’t know why things happen or don’t, but we know G-d is at the helm, and He has His reasons.
![Israel National News: Imagine Gaza mass demonstrations](https://coalitionforjewishvalues.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/gaza-1023x675.jpg)
Israel National News: Imagine Gaza mass demonstrations
I know it will never happen, but that is not my point.
![Rabbi Yaakov Menken in Townhall: Prêt à Discriminer](https://coalitionforjewishvalues.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Pret_a_Manger-1080x675.jpg)
Rabbi Yaakov Menken in Townhall: Prêt à Discriminer
It is almost impossible to imagine that JAB was simply unaware how the public would perceive Pret a Manger’s decision.
![Rabbi Dov Fischer in Israel National News: On L.A. pogroms, scared college Jews, and a Rabbi who led](https://coalitionforjewishvalues.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/marek-studzinski-SydYyAP3d4-unsplash-1080x675.jpg)
Rabbi Dov Fischer in Israel National News: On L.A. pogroms, scared college Jews, and a Rabbi who led
The violent American encampments and the L.A. riot are not pogroms. They are violent attacks that Jews could have suppressed immediately.
![Rabbi Yoel Schonfeld in the Queens Jewish Link: What Is Your Universe?](https://coalitionforjewishvalues.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/antisemitsm.jpg)
Rabbi Yoel Schonfeld in the Queens Jewish Link: What Is Your Universe?
I understand how disillusioned progressives must feel to realize that their belief system was a fraud. But they must realize they were duped all along.
![Rabbi Dov Fischer in The American Spectator: Universities Must End DEI and Implement DEI](https://coalitionforjewishvalues.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/clay-banks-LjqARJaJotc-unsplash-1080x675.jpg)
Rabbi Dov Fischer in The American Spectator: Universities Must End DEI and Implement DEI
A student’s mind will mature if presented with a variety of viewpoints and challenged to weigh all competing ideas.
![Rabbi Ze’ev Smason in the St. Louis Jewish Light: A Rabbi, a Nun, and the ensuring a Jewish Burial](https://coalitionforjewishvalues.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/jewish-cemetery-worms-1df8b3-640.jpg)
Rabbi Ze’ev Smason in the St. Louis Jewish Light: A Rabbi, a Nun, and the ensuring a Jewish Burial
Traditional Jewish burial is kinder to your body, kinder to the planet, kinder to your relatives, and kinder to your soul.
![Rabbi Dov Fischer in The American Spectator: Get the Feds and States Out of the Student Loan Business](https://coalitionforjewishvalues.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/towfiqu-barbhuiya-jpqyfK7GB4w-unsplash-1080x675.jpg)
Rabbi Dov Fischer in The American Spectator: Get the Feds and States Out of the Student Loan Business
No matter how hard a democracy’s government tries, it cannot competently disburse or oversee money.
![Rabbi Dov Fischer in The American Spectator: To Stop the Campus Riots, Abolish Faculty Tenure](https://coalitionforjewishvalues.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/changbok-ko-F8t2VGnI47I-unsplash-1080x675.jpg)
Rabbi Dov Fischer in The American Spectator: To Stop the Campus Riots, Abolish Faculty Tenure
By abolishing faculty tenure, professors will have no choice left but to teach and publish wisdom and useful knowledge, not hate.
![Rabbi Steven Pruzansky in Israel National News: American Pressure](https://coalitionforjewishvalues.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/aaron-burden-t2b1Z-jPT-w-unsplash-1080x675.jpg)
Rabbi Steven Pruzansky in Israel National News: American Pressure
History teaches us that succumbing to American pressure is often unwise and occasionally fatal. Ask Chiang Kai-shek.