Op-Eds
Op-Eds by our Officers and Fellows do not necessarily represent the views or focus issues of the CJV.
Rabbi Yaakov Menken in the Israel National News: Exclusion via Inclusive Language
No one who values the unity of the Jewish people can vote for a resolution that requires violating Torah, because Torah cannot be negotiated.
Rabbi Steven Pruzansky in the Israel National News: The Halakhic State
Proud Jews yearn for the implementation of the Torah system. They do not dread it because they don’t believe in the Torah or properly understand it.
Rabbi Yonason Goldson in the St. Louis Jewish Light: Coalition for Jewish Values aims to be a voice for tradition in Missouri
CJV-MO seeks to bring to Missouri the same fight for the values of Jewish tradition that is CJV’s mission both nationally and worldwide.
Rabbi Moshe Parnes in Townhall: Passover, the Holiday of True Independence
He wanted Jews to remember their former enslavement not with embarrassment, but as a conduit to gratitude to their Redeemer.
Rabbi Yaakov Menken in Newsweek: Judaism’s Stance on Gender Is Clear, Despite Attempts To Rewrite Torah
Few things have been said about Judaism by its purported adherents that are more clearly untrue, reprised.
Rabbi Moshe Parnes in the Israel National News: Birth pangs of a nation
Let’s be honest, Israelis never cared much about democracy. What Israelis, and all Jews, have always deeply invested in, is ideology and identity.
Rabbi Dov Fischer in the Israel National News: What my previous pulpit taught me about judicial reform and sovereignty in Israel
The reforms and improvements will gain widespread popular acceptance soon enough, which is what the demagogues of the Left fear most.
Rabbi Dov Fischer in The American Spectator: Me and the Despicable Canines at Stanford Law
This week, law students at a “premium” university barked and yipped like dogs and disrupted a speech by an Article III judge, the Hon. Kyle Duncan.
Rabbi Dov Fischer in The American Spectator: Who Wants to Be Treated by an Affirmative Action Doctor?
Some people, even anti-Semites, go out of their way to get medically treated by Jewish doctors or legally represented by Jewish attorneys.
Rabbi Dov Fischer in The American Spectator: Oscars-Schmoscars: Things That Bothered Me About You People
We live in a decayed society where very little remains sacred. Every idiot has to tweet innermost stories and post them on Facebook and YouTube.