Op-Eds
Op-Eds by our Officers and Fellows do not necessarily represent the views or focus issues of the CJV.
Rabbi Yaakov Menken in Townhall: Prêt à Discriminer
It is almost impossible to imagine that JAB was simply unaware how the public would perceive Pret a Manger’s decision.
Rabbi Dov Fischer in Israel National News: On L.A. pogroms, scared college Jews, and a Rabbi who led
The violent American encampments and the L.A. riot are not pogroms. They are violent attacks that Jews could have suppressed immediately.
Rabbi Yoel Schonfeld in the Queens Jewish Link: What Is Your Universe?
I understand how disillusioned progressives must feel to realize that their belief system was a fraud. But they must realize they were duped all along.
Rabbi Dov Fischer in The American Spectator: Universities Must End DEI and Implement DEI
A student’s mind will mature if presented with a variety of viewpoints and challenged to weigh all competing ideas.
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.