Press Releases

Will American Jews Listen to Israelis About Israel?
Federation leaders are poised for a trip to Tel-Aviv this October, where the Jewish Federations of North America will hold its annual General Assembly — headlined “Israel and the Diaspora: We Need to Talk.” But are they going to Israel for true dialogue, or merely to change Israeli minds?
Rabbinic Group Commends Christians United for Israel for UK Solidarity Declaration
While people primarily think of CUFI’s support for Israel, the country, it is clear that CUFI backs the People of Israel all around the world, and we are grateful for their unabashed support in the face of hatred.
UCLA Disrupters Follow Pattern of Nazi SA, Says Rabbinic Group
Disruptions of this nature constitute mob suppression of free speech. This is how you prevent dialogue, and prevent persecuted minorities from having a voice. This is chillingly reminiscent of dark chapters in world history, and the City Attorney must act to prevent this behavior from flourishing in America.
US Rabbinic Group Supports Letter of 200 Rabbis Favoring Biblical Values
The CJV today endorsed the letter of 200 Israeli colleagues supporting the position of Jerusalem Chief Rabbi HaRav Aryeh Stern in favor of traditional marriage and in opposition to normalization of same-gender couples.
Rabbis Endorse Judge Kavanaugh for Supreme Court
The Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV), representing more than 1,000 American rabbis, today endorsed the nomination of D.C. Circuit Judge Brett Kavanaugh to serve on the United States Supreme Court. Rabbi Dov Fischer, CJV Western Regional Vice President and an adjunct...
Rabbis Welcome Israel Policy Refusing Entry to “Anti-Semitic” BDS Activists
BDS is transparently anti-Semitic, eerily reminiscent of boycotts historically perpetrated against Jews by our worst enemies. Yet history is also replete with examples of Jewish renegades who defamed their own people in order to gain personal acceptance and favor.
Rabbis Commend Israeli Government Minister for Placing Principle Before Politics
The demand for changes comes only from American liberal movements, which are trying to divert attention from the utter collapse of their authority and continuity here in America by attempting to intervene in Israel’s religious affairs.
Rabbis Welcome Supreme Court Decision on Trump Travel Ban
The ban includes none of the countries with the five largest Muslim populations, and affects less than 10% of Muslims worldwide. We reject categorically any comparison between the Jews of the Nazi era, who had no country of refuge to avoid slaughter for being Jews, and today’s Muslim and Arab populations.
Rabbis Endorse United States Withdrawal from UNHRC
There is no way to reform an organization from the inside when its very core is corrupt… and sometimes leading from the front means walking out the door.
CJV Calls for “Sober Response” to Immigration Crisis
For those of us serving as synagogue rabbis, whose congregants look to national organizations to tell them what is kosher, it is dismaying that two prominent organizations chose to join in a statement with radical Jewish groups.