Op-Eds
Op-Eds by our Officers and Fellows do not necessarily represent the views or focus issues of the CJV.
Israel National News: LGBTQIA+ is not our cause célèbre
This article should not really be deemed controversial, but it possibly is the most daring I ever have published. It is time. If the words below resonate, know you are not alone.
Townhall: A Hate Group Grows on Campus
America’s future leaders are being coopted into an antisemitic campaign thinly disguised as a human rights movement.
Rabbi Dov Fischer joins video effort opposing schools teaching gender dysphoria
Rabbi Menken on Foxnews.com: Virginia candidate Youngkin’s criticism of Soros not anti-Semitic, it’s legitimate
Response to Glenn Youngkin’s comment on George Soros was as fast and furious as it was predictable.
Real Clear Religion: Your Child’s Education is a Holy Obligation
Given what’s happening with schools across the country, it’s worthwhile to see what Judaism’s holy texts have to offer on the topic of education.
Israel Hayom: Why anti-Zionism is always pure antisemitism
What makes “anti-Zionism” different is that it does not aim at policy difference nor even at animus against political personalities but at delegitimizing a core component of the Judaic paradigm.
Israel Hayom: Why Harris ignored anti-Israel remarks
Those of us who have followed Harris’ political career in California were not surprised by the recent firestorm she created.
The American Spectator: Why Anti-Zionism Always Is Pure Anti-Semitism
Anyone who is anti-Zionist is a Jew-hater. It’s that simple.
Israel National News: Bereshit – Making sense of that first Rashi
How can the Jews invoking Rashi on Bereshit as the basis of rights to Eretz Yisrael convince the nations that we are not thieves?
Cross-Currents: Rabbi Menken on abortion, LGBTQ and observant Jewry
These positions are not merely incompatible with Judaism, but there is compelling evidence that they are not the course of action that truly compassionate people, not blinded by a new agenda of “progressivism,” would take.