Op-Eds
Op-Eds by our Officers and Fellows do not necessarily represent the views or focus issues of the CJV.
![Rabbi Dov Fischer in Israel National News: When South Africa and the UN hate Israel, take comfort in G-d’s protection](https://coalitionforjewishvalues.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/south_africa-1080x675.jpg)
Rabbi Dov Fischer in Israel National News: When South Africa and the UN hate Israel, take comfort in G-d’s protection
Antisemitism is so incomprehensible that many Orthodox Jews believe that it is G-d’s way of ‘mowing the lawn’ while ensuring we survive.
![Rabbi Dov Fischer in The American Spectator: The Antisemitism of South Africa Should Not Surprise](https://coalitionforjewishvalues.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/south-africa-flag-1024x675.jpg)
Rabbi Dov Fischer in The American Spectator: The Antisemitism of South Africa Should Not Surprise
To be born a Jew is to be born with a target on your back. We don’t look for it. We don’t want it. But it comes.
![Rabbi Ze’ev Smason in the St Lewis Jewish Light: A wonderful example of the true heart of the Jewish people](https://coalitionforjewishvalues.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/anton-mislawsky-bEt1yhLX7oo-unsplash-1080x675.jpg)
Rabbi Ze’ev Smason in the St Lewis Jewish Light: A wonderful example of the true heart of the Jewish people
Our Sages debate what is the greatest quality a person can acquire. Their conclusion? A lev tov, a “good heart.”
![Rabbi Dov Fischer in Israel National News: Gutless cowards hiding behind black robes like thieves in the night](https://coalitionforjewishvalues.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/israel-supreme-court-2-1080x675.jpg)
Rabbi Dov Fischer in Israel National News: Gutless cowards hiding behind black robes like thieves in the night
Many Israeli Supreme Court justices hate Orthodox Judaism, and all their jurisprudential views are tainted by their obsessive hatred of it.
![Rabbi Dov Fischer in The American Spectator: Claudine Gay: Another DEI Success Story](https://coalitionforjewishvalues.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/harvard-house-harvard-university-cambridge-mass-bb95d7-640.jpg)
Rabbi Dov Fischer in The American Spectator: Claudine Gay: Another DEI Success Story
The universities now are evil. They teach evil. They brainwash children into pursuing an agenda of evil.
![Rabbi Steven Pruzansky in Israel National News: Politicians in Robes](https://coalitionforjewishvalues.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Israel-Supreme-Court-1080x675.jpg)
Rabbi Steven Pruzansky in Israel National News: Politicians in Robes
The justices are essentially politicians in robes, part of self-perpetuating oligarchy, claiming to be preserving democracy while evidently mocking it.
![Rabbi Steven Pruzansky in Israel National News: Of Rivers and Seas](https://coalitionforjewishvalues.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/March_for_Israel_Washington_DC-1080x675.jpg)
Rabbi Steven Pruzansky in Israel National News: Of Rivers and Seas
“Free Palestine” has never been synonymous with “intelligent,” and this slogan is one of the dumbest imaginable.
![Rabbi Dov Fischer in The American Spectator” I Miss Comedy in America. Just Look at Saturday Night Live.](https://coalitionforjewishvalues.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Saturday_Night_Live_Political_Satire_2008_8166880924-1080x675.jpg)
Rabbi Dov Fischer in The American Spectator” I Miss Comedy in America. Just Look at Saturday Night Live.
Saturday Night Live went after Rep. Elise Stefanik for exposing anti-Semitism in the Poison Ivy league.
![Rabbi Dov Fischer in The American Spectator: Goodbye Liz Magill, and Good Riddance](https://coalitionforjewishvalues.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/upenn-1024x675.jpg)
Rabbi Dov Fischer in The American Spectator: Goodbye Liz Magill, and Good Riddance
It is war. We are on the warpath. Collecting scalps. (Is my indigenous American spirit showing?)
![Rabbi Dov Fischer in The American Spectator: Women and Children, Feminists and Misandry](https://coalitionforjewishvalues.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/pexels-pavel-danilyuk-8425044-1080x675.jpg)
Rabbi Dov Fischer in The American Spectator: Women and Children, Feminists and Misandry
In the Hamas hostage deal, there is no feminism. No wokeness. No intersectionality. The women go free, and the men remain in Gaza.