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Phoenix AZ Jewish News: National, local Jewish organizations weigh in on SCOTUS ruling
The Coalition for Jewish Values, a rabbinic public-policy organization, also welcomed the decision, saying that the travel ban upheld by the Supreme Court “focuses upon countries that harbor both terrorism and hatred for America.”
The Glory of Timely Leftist Overreach
They had one good week on MSNBC and CNN: They got to call all their enemies “Nazis” and “Gestapo,” and they got to compare lawful border enforcement to gassing children to death with Zyklon B.
Baltimore Jewish Life: Rabbis Welcome Israel Policy Refusing Entry to “Anti-Semitic” BDS Activists
The CJV further called attention to its statement made last year, when another American group was refused entry: “Israel’s decision is prudent, reasonable, and entirely justified. No government is expected to welcome those who advocate for that nation’s destruction.”
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.
Baltimore Jewish Life: Rabbis Commend Israeli Government Minister for “Placing Principle Before Politics”
‘The Jewish people have survived for millennia because of, and only because of, our adherence to our unique traditions,’ added Rabbi Pesach Lerner, President of the CJV.
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.
How Crazy Are We?
Has President Trump at this time become so toxic that the Jewish community cannot bring itself to commend the president when he has over and over again stuck out his neck for us? It makes you wonder at times why he even bothers. All the good that he has done for Jews and Israel seems not to matter.
John Fredericks Radio Show Interviews Rabbi Yaakov Menken
Rabbi Yaakov Menken discusses immigration, Israel and the Iran Deal on the John Fredericks Radio Show.
The Forward: The Jews Who Ignore Immigrants While Employing Them
The very Jews who are writing so passionately in their local publications about the irrelevance of the immigration crisis to our community, releasing statements about ‘sober’ responses to the immigration crisis, posing for photo-ops with those who have promulgated these inhumane policies — it is often these very people who rely on cheap, undocumented immigrant labor in their day-to-day lives. [Our call for a sober response is precisely because we are not ignoring (one administration’s handling of) the crisis, but that’s The Forward for you.]
Affirming President Trump’s travel ban: Sanity prevails
Although the decision was narrow, the Supreme Court should be applauded for upholding President Trump’s travel ban.