Op-Eds
Op-Eds by our Officers and Fellows do not necessarily represent the views or focus issues of the CJV.

Rabbi Ze’ev Smason in the St. Louis Jewish Light: A Rabbi, a Nun, and the ensuring a Jewish Burial
Traditional Jewish burial is kinder to your body, kinder to the planet, kinder to your relatives, and kinder to your soul.

Rabbi Dov Fischer in The American Spectator: Get the Feds and States Out of the Student Loan Business
No matter how hard a democracy’s government tries, it cannot competently disburse or oversee money.

Rabbi Dov Fischer in The American Spectator: To Stop the Campus Riots, Abolish Faculty Tenure
By abolishing faculty tenure, professors will have no choice left but to teach and publish wisdom and useful knowledge, not hate.

Rabbi Steven Pruzansky in Israel National News: American Pressure
History teaches us that succumbing to American pressure is often unwise and occasionally fatal. Ask Chiang Kai-shek.

Rabbi Dov Fischer in Israel National News: The message of defeating Hamas in Rafah without Biden
There is nothing in all the world that compares to standing on your own two feet, living the life you were called to live, the life you want to live,

Rabbi Dov Fischer in The American Spectator: Colleges Must Stop Admitting Foreign Students for Two Years
No non-American has a G-d-given right to be here. We have a country to protect, and tough times call for tough measures.

Rabbi Dov Fischer in The American Spectator: Sue the Members of the College Boards
University Trustees have a fiduciary responsibility to see that students receive a safe, unimpeded education.

Rabbi Dov Fischer in The American Spectator: The Blessing of the College Riots
Finally, America is taking notice that the colleges and universities are longer about the ideological brainwashing of kids but about insurrection.

Rabbi Steven Pruzansky in Israel 365 News: The New Trump Doctrine
It would be encouraging if Democratic voices emerged that also disavowed the fantasies of “two states for two people.”

Rabbi Dov Fischer in The American Spectator: A Queen, Two Bishops, Jews, and Muslim Madmen in Turbans
I don’t know whether the IDF believes it has the ability to take out Iranian nuclear reactors, but, if it does, this is the time to strike.