Op-Eds
Op-Eds by our Officers and Fellows do not necessarily represent the views or focus issues of the CJV.
![Can’t Compare Mideast Refugees with WWII Holocaust Victims](https://coalitionforjewishvalues.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Photo-Rabbi-Spero-portrait-1080x675.jpg)
Can’t Compare Mideast Refugees with WWII Holocaust Victims
If there is a genocide parallel it involves the Christians of the Middle East who have for decades been targets of the Muslim genocide against them simply for being Christian. And yet, the Left has been silent regarding the plight of Christians.
The Philo-Semitic President
If supporters of the anti-Israel “J Street” are opposing Friedman for Ambassador as a “zealous partisan” and claiming his boss is an anti-Semite, one must question: do they honestly believe Trump doesn’t like Jews, or are they offended that Trump’s inner circle includes so many who take Jewish tradition far more seriously than they do?
![The Biblical Story of Esther and the Immoral Society](https://coalitionforjewishvalues.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Rabbi-Avrohom-Gordimer-9.jpg)
The Biblical Story of Esther and the Immoral Society
The narrative of Purim may be thousands of years old and depict occurrences in ancient Persia, but the story’s relevance to contemporary society at large is striking, for it describes the eventual results of an absence of divine moral norms.
![President Trump is More Supportive of Jews than Quasi-Jewish Leftists Are](https://coalitionforjewishvalues.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Rabbi-Dov-Fischer-9.jpg)
President Trump is More Supportive of Jews than Quasi-Jewish Leftists Are
They are my great protectors — leftist Jews, professional Democrat Jews, Jews in Hollywood and on Broadway, Jews in the liberal mainstream media. For a year and more, they have been in the forefront protecting me from the “anti-Semitism” of President Trump. And oh how they care for Israel!