Press Releases
Rabbinic Group Criticizes Democratic Candidates for Shunning AIPAC but Attending J Street Conference
US support for Israel has always been bipartisan – but that notion is undermined and vitiated when respect is given to anti-Israel organizations and denied to pro-Israel groups.
Hundreds of Rabbis and Jewish Leaders to Receive President’s Blessings for the New Year
As in previous years, the White House on Monday invited rabbis and Jewish leaders to receive the President's greetings and well wishes before the High Holy Days, in a conference call to take place on Friday. Over 150 received their invitations due to the efforts of...
Statement Following UN Religious Liberty Event
It was notable that all three of Vice President Pence, President Trump and UN Secretary-General Guterres led with anti-Semitism when discussing animus against religious groups.
President Trump’s “Expression of Concern” Commendable, Rabbis Say
Organizations which claim to represent the Jewish community should represent Jewish interests in a non-partisan fashion. Instead, left-wing Jewish groups are trying to paint the President as having used an Anti-Semitic trope, in order to avoid addressing the substance of his remarks.
Rabbis Commend Israel for Refusing Entry to Congresswomen Omar and Tlaib
Besides the fact that they requested no meetings with Israeli officials, wishing only to travel to ‘Palestine,’ these are not people who would be convinced by seeing ‘the facts on the ground.’
Jewish Leaders Condemn “Never Again” Anti-ICE Event as “Utterly Contrary to Jewish Values”
“It maligns the targeted company and its employees, defames ICE agents, displays woeful ignorance of history, trivializes and distorts the Holocaust, and is a vulgar insult to six million murdered Jews and the survivors of that horror. The fact that many of the protesters will be Jewish themselves merely makes it worse.”
Rabbis Call for Renewed Culture of Life After Mass Shootings
We should all agree that the mentally ill should not have access to guns, but we should also focus upon the loss of values which has plagued America for generations. Several generations of values-free education has produced too many values-free children, in which life itself has little value or meaning.
Rabbinic Group Criticizes Senators’ Insensitivity towards Jewish Community
Two Senators, both of whom are candidates for the President’s job, described a man who instigated Antisemitic marches and even murder as spending “his life” fighting for “justice” and “to improve our nation.” It is hard to imagine a person with any sensitivity towards the Jewish community making such a statement.
Jewish Leaders Defend Israel’s Education Minister Rabbi Rafi Peretz on Concern for Spiritual Holocaust
The Holocaust was a horrific physical destruction of our people, while intermarriage and assimilation are causing a spiritual destruction no less detrimental to Jewish continuity. They are by no means the same, but both extinguish the Jewish future – and repeated studies of the American Jewish community bear this out.
Rabbinic Group Slams AOC for Trivializing the Holocaust
To use Holocaust terminology regarding the refugee situation at the border is deeply offensive, and for Rep. Ocasio-Cortez to first use the term ‘Never Again’ and then deny making the comparison is compellingly dishonest.