Op-Eds
Op-Eds by our Officers and Fellows do not necessarily represent the views or focus issues of the CJV.
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.
Rabbi Jonathan Guttentag in The Jewish Chronicle: ‘No mainstream Orthodox rabbinic body anywhere recognises women as rabbis’
While women can take leadership roles in an Orthodox community, halachic boundaries remain, argues a veteran rabbi.
Rabbi Moshe Parnes in Jewish News Syndicate: Let’s play make-believe
Conflicts rooted in ideology, religion and history, such as that between Israel and Palestine, cannot be solved by pretending they don’t exist.