Op-Eds
Op-Eds by our Officers and Fellows do not necessarily represent the views or focus issues of the CJV.
Rabbi Yoel Schonfeld in Queens Jewish Link: Don’t Tell Me. I Was There!
Trump being Trump: blunt, unapologetic, and focused on Israel. Love him or not, 40% Jewish support is impressive.
Rabbi Ze’ev Smason in St. Louis Jewish Light: Are young American Jews and Israel drifting apart?
Being Jewish is about more than culture and clout, yet young American Jews are increasingly alienated from Jewish values and worship.
Rabbi Steven Pruzansky in Israel National News: Taking Torah Seriously – On How to Wage War
Why keep reinventing the wheel? The Torah’s wartime wisdom is still our best guide to victory and peace.
Rabbi Avrohom Gordimer in Townhall: Not Just Israel: The Orthodox Jewish Community’s Support for Trump and the GOP
Family values, respect for faith, and commitment to security keep Orthodox Jews overwhelmingly in Trump’s corner.
Rabbi Steven Pruzansky in Israel National News: Impotent clichés
Forget all the clichés and substitute this sentence: The terrorists need to fear us, and only then will they be deterred and learn to respect us.
Rabbi Yaakov Menken in JNS: The DNC’s platform problem
Corporations are the only ones who can step on the brakes, preventing the party from lurching further into anti-Israel and antisemitic territory.
Rabbi Dov Fischer in The American Spectator: Columbia University Stinks Just a Bit Less Today
President Minouche Shafik joins three other Ivy League university presidents knocked off this season because of Jew-hatred.
Rabbi Yaakov Menken in JNS: Wikipedia hates Israel and Jews
The online encyclopedia is big tech’s antisemitic propaganda arm.
Rabbi Dov Fischer in The American Spectator: An ‘Anti-Zionist’ Is Probably an Anti-Semite if …
Because Hitler made it uncool to publicly declare ‘I hate all Jews,’ finding new ways to demonstrate Jew-hatred has become necessary.
Rabbi Dov Fischer in The American Spectator: Candace, We Hardly Knew Ye … and Ye
I was among those who initially thought Candace Owens was a special new voice in America. Boy, was I wrong.