Press Releases
Rabbinic Group Condemns Letter from “Young Jews” as “Compellingly Dishonest and Bigoted”
Though it claims to be concerned for civil rights and civil debate, J Street has an unfortunate history of false personal attacks against those in the Jewish community who reject its views.
Bill DeBlasio Needs to Apologize and Fast, Rabbis Say
Replace ‘Jewish’ with African-American, Hispanic, Buddhist, Sikh or Catholic, much less Gay or Muslim, and De Blasio would never dare make such a statement. Yet he targeted the very people who faced repeated, random anti-Semitic attacks across the city last year, with a broad-brush slur based upon, at most, the wrongdoing of several hundred people.
Rabbis Call Beer Sheva Judge’s Decision “Bigotry and State-Sponsored Discrimination”
We have seen this sad story play out in America all too often. This ludicrous decision expresses disdain for Judaism and Jewish values; the judge has embraced secular coercion and intolerance in their most repugnant forms.
Rep. Betty McCollum’s Tweet and Comments “Flatly Anti-Semitic,” Rabbis Say
It is hard to find a more concise demonstration of anti-Semitic rhetoric cloaked in ‘Palestinian rights’ advocacy than this tweet.
Rabbis Warn Against Emboldening Iran
This resolution, passed at this time, would complicate the war on terror, put many lives at risk, and, in the CJV’s view, frustrate the Biblical vision of a just and moral world.
Rabbis to Reform Rabbi Rick Jacobs: Don’t Claim to Represent Diaspora Jewry
The Reform movement has turned against Israel and lost its core audience, and the reason Rabbi Rick Jacobs dislikes Ms. Hotovely is that she is far too perceptive and honest about the true state of American Reform movement.
Rabbis to Mayor de Blasio, ADL, AJC: Partisan Misuse of Anti-Semitism Endangers Jews
What Mayor Giuliani had to say about Soros was entirely reasonable, while Soros’ Jewish identity seems to surface only when it can be used to shield him from justified criticism.
Rabbinic Organization Lauds Trump Executive Order on Anti-Semitism
Jews are indeed a nationality, and Jewish students have faced increasingly-obvious bias on campus. The fact that it has been thinly disguised as “anti-Israel” activity is no excuse for bigotry.
“Turns Reality on Its Head:” Rabbis Ask House Democrats to Withdraw “False and Misleading” Letter
Jews were ethnically cleansed from towns in Judea and Samaria in 1929 and 1936, and then driven out entirely by Jordan in 1948 – yet the signatories claim that the Fourth Geneva Convention prohibits them from moving back. It is hard not to read that claim as unsympathetic to Jews and history.
Rabbis Commend SecState Mike Pompeo for Israel Settlements Policy Change
Contrary to a false narrative implying that Jews somehow voluntarily abandoned the Land of Israel in favor of others, the letter points out that “Jews lived in the holy cities of Hebron and Shechem (Nablus), as well as elsewhere in the area, at all times when not forced to leave at the tip of a sword.” And this being the case, the CJV concludes that the return of Jewish settlement in that area is simply “the resumption of Jewish life in that part of the Jewish homeland.”