Op-Eds
Op-Eds by our Officers and Fellows do not necessarily represent the views or focus issues of the CJV.
Washington Examiner: Hollywood is using Orthodox Jews as a cudgel to bash all people of faith
Jews might be disproportionately represented in entertainment, but many of them are really just devotees of progressivism, which is hostile to the very principle of national sovereignty (including a Jewish homeland) and all that revealed religion entails.
Real Clear Religion: Permanent Daylight Saving Would Be Disastrous for Jewish Morning Prayer
Permanent DST would obstruct many Jewish practices and endanger children and others who must travel to school or work in the early morning hours.
The Times of Israel: Conversion Reform – The Pseudo-Orthodox Approach
No favor is being done for the Jewish People nor for prospective converts by introducing standards that will bring Jewish status into question.
Israel National News: The Green Goggles of Faith and Matan Kahana’s Conversion Proposals
Every legal system engenders cogent minority viewpoints from great scholars. But we do not light 8 candles the 1st night of Chanukah.
The Jerusalem Post: Amnesty’s International Report on Israel Doesn’t Matter
by Rabbi Dov Fischer, The Jerusalem Post Time has marched on, and the future of Judea and Samaria will not be determined by apartheid name-calling or even by the old issues on the table. In June 1967, the elementary school faculty gathered our entire Brooklyn yeshiva...
The American Spectator: What American Woke Cancel Culture Has Taught Me About Nazi Germany
Most people mean well, fear losing the jobs and income by which they support their families, and are terrified they will lose friends and social standing.
Newsweek: Whoopi Goldberg Affair Exposes the Deep Flaw of Holocaust Education
More than anything, Goldberg’s historical illiteracy reveals that “Holocaust education,” despite its ubiquity, is severely flawed.
New York Post: It’s a mitzvah, not anti-Semitism, to attack George Soros’ dangerous DA campaigns
Soros is destroying our nation’s foundational principles and our democratic institutions. It’s a patriotic mitzvah to stand up and say so.
Newsweek: CAIR Not Only Inspires Terrorists. It’s Historically Linked to Them
By accusing mainstream Jewish organizations and allies of the Jewish people of “Islamophobia,” the extremist CAIR both inverts hater and hated.
The American Spectator: Why No One on Either Side Will Miss Roe v. Wade
“It’s all about a sloppy, deeply flawed, cynical ruling that never had reason to exist — but there are states!”