Op-Eds
Op-Eds by our Officers and Fellows do not necessarily represent the views or focus issues of the CJV.
Rabbi Jonathan Guttentag in The Jewish Chronicle: The Schools Bill debate: ‘Yeshivot will not be classified as schools’
The Bishop of Manchester, has clarified that yeshivot are not schools in the conventional sense, and should not be regulated as if they were.
Rabbi Jonathan Guttentag in Conservative Home: The fate of the Iranian regime will matter in Britain too
Iran is a revolutionary state that has spent decades defining itself in opposition to America, Israel and the West as a whole. Iran’s defeat would help Britain.
Jonathan Guttentag in Conservative Home: When soldiers guard synagogues, something has already gone deeply wrong
When a European government sends soldiers to protect synagogues and Jewish schools, it it is a grave warning.
Rabbi Yaakov Menken and Rabbi Jonathan Guttentag in the Jerusalem Post: Western Wall debate must not overshadow prayer, unity during times of war
At a moment when Israel faces immediate and existential danger, gender politics about the Western Wall are more than a needless distraction.
Rabbi Jonathan Guttentag in Mishpacha: When the Law Misreads a Yeshivah
Britan’s legal framework has allowed Charedi parents to retain responsibility for their sons’ education while yeshivos provide Torah learning.
Rabbi Jonathan Guttentag in Conservative Home: Extremism, pluralism and the need for moral red lines
A liberal democracy cannot survive if it refuses to defend its own moral boundaries. Yet, we refuse to take Islamist extremism seriously.
Rabbi Steven Pruzansky in Israel National News: Tucker Unhinged
Huckabee calmly defends Israel and Jewish identity amid Carlson’s hostile questioning, misinformation, and moral equivalence between Hamas and Israel.
Rabbi Menken in the New York Post: Racist remembrance dishonors MLK
A Jewish religious leader was disinvited from an advocacy day honoring MLK, due to his support for Zionism, even though MLK himself was a Zionist.
Rabbi Moshe B. Parnes in Townhall.com: When Democracy Goes Awry
Certain religions are based on the view that bigotry is a religious imperative and tolerance toward others is heretical.
Rabbi Ze’ev Smason in St. Louis Jewish Light: What Jewish ‘nones’ are searching for
Jewish religious affiliation is falling. What many lack is not the search for meaning, but religious forms that no longer speak to their inner lives.