Op-Eds
Op-Eds by our Officers and Fellows do not necessarily represent the views or focus issues of the CJV.
Should Leah Forster Be Allowed To Perform in a Kosher Restaurant?
It’s human nature. People are extremely impressionable, and when they laugh along with a performer and enjoy his or her presentation, they bond and start to grow comfortable with what he or she represents.
Oh, Big Deal! So Close Down the Government
No more Mr. Nice Guy if that’s what required to keep his biggest campaign promise.
Why Michael Cohen Is Particularly Detestable and Despicable
Michael Cohen once famously said that he would take a bullet for President Trump. At the time of his pronouncement I had my doubts, but no longer.
The Corrupt Vote Harvest in Orange County
Why the 50 States Must Ban Vote Harvesting.
Abolish the Rabbinate?
But the suggestion that the Chief Rabbinate be abolished engendered this thought: what if, instead, the Reform Rabbinate would be abolished?
No, Chanukah Does Not Celebrate Pluralism!
Of all Jewish holidays, Chanukah is the one that is most subject to distortion.
My Draft for Trump’s Speech Pardoning All But One of Mueller’s Victims
I have begun drafting my proposed speech for President Trump to use on the occasion of his pardoning all convicted and imprisoned Mueller victims except Michael “Cash Cab” Cohen.
Hush Money and Impeachment
Going after Trump like there’s no tomorrow — which there is.
A Just-So Story: How This Brooklyn Rabbi Got Into Country Music
After some other songs we never before had heard — I truly knew nothing of country music at that point — the station played another Garth standard: “Unanswered Prayers.” By now Garth had so many tears welling in my eyes that I could not drive for a moment, had to pull off to the side of the road.
Why Climate Change and Diversity Are So Urgent
On the secret probe at the university where you say it best when you say nothing at all.