Op-Eds
Op-Eds by our Officers and Fellows do not necessarily represent the views or focus issues of the CJV.
![Rabbi Steven Pruzansky in JNS: Deep concerns about American Jewish leadership](https://coalitionforjewishvalues.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Rabbi-Steven-Pruzansky-99-1080x675.jpg)
Rabbi Steven Pruzansky in JNS: Deep concerns about American Jewish leadership
American Jewish leaders profess to support a Jewish and democratic Israel. Yet they blithely oppose legislation that would make the State of Israel more Jewish and more democratic.
![Rabbi Steven Pruzansky in Israel National News: The Torah and Judicial Reform](https://coalitionforjewishvalues.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Knesset_cropped-1080x675.jpg)
Rabbi Steven Pruzansky in Israel National News: The Torah and Judicial Reform
According to the Torah, the purpose of the judicial system is to do justice, which is defined as applying the law equally and fairly to all.
![Rabbi Schonfeld in the Queens Jewish Link: Can Governor Hochul Grow A Tomato?](https://coalitionforjewishvalues.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/tomato.jpg)
Rabbi Schonfeld in the Queens Jewish Link: Can Governor Hochul Grow A Tomato?
It has been said that you can judge the living by how they treat the dead. Now our society has reached a new low.
![Rabbi Steven Pruzansky in The Jewish Press: Jewish Values: The Real Issue](https://coalitionforjewishvalues.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/ben-shapiro-1024x675.jpg)
Rabbi Steven Pruzansky in The Jewish Press: Jewish Values: The Real Issue
Large scale Jewish abandonment of Jewish values in the public domain leaves the impression that Jews have nothing to offer & are nothing special.
![Rabbi Yoel Schonfeld in the Queens Jewish Link: Nafsil Qunana!](https://coalitionforjewishvalues.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Lincoln-Tunnel-Agudath-2048x1365-1-1080x675.jpeg)
Rabbi Yoel Schonfeld in the Queens Jewish Link: Nafsil Qunana!
Let’s get other parts of Orthodox Jewry together to unite and rally in front of the headquarters of anti-Semitism, The New York Times.
![Rabbi Dov Fischer in Israel National News: A Hanukkah Carol](https://coalitionforjewishvalues.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/menorah-785x675.jpg)
Rabbi Dov Fischer in Israel National News: A Hanukkah Carol
From the ghost of Hanukkah past all the way to the ghost of Hanukkah future, an American Jew has a look at American Jewry today.
Rabbi Dov Fischer in The American Spectator: On Chanukah, My Appendix, and the High Kohen
Chanukah is fascinating because, since it is so incredibly easy, more American Jews “celebrate it” than they do any other Jewish holiday.
![Rabbi Dov Fischer in Israel National News: Hanukkah and Judea-Samaria: On goggles and thumbprints](https://coalitionforjewishvalues.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/menorah-5.jpg)
Rabbi Dov Fischer in Israel National News: Hanukkah and Judea-Samaria: On goggles and thumbprints
The miracles with His thumbprint are there to see; you just need the green-tinted goggles to realize that G-d was with us all along.
![Rabbi Parnes in Townhall: Do You Laugh or Cry – Maybe Both?](https://coalitionforjewishvalues.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/px622315-image-kwyp1jjz.jpg)
Rabbi Parnes in Townhall: Do You Laugh or Cry – Maybe Both?
Apparently, the Torah, Talmud, and The Code of Jewish Law simply do not represent the “Jewish” view of the Boynton Beach crowd.
![Rabbi Pruzansky in Israel National News: Is there a middle ground between Never Trumpers and Always Trumpers?](https://coalitionforjewishvalues.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/steven_pruzansky_lp.jpg)
Rabbi Pruzansky in Israel National News: Is there a middle ground between Never Trumpers and Always Trumpers?
Is there a sane middle between those for whom he can do no wrong and those for whom he can do no right?