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Fighting for Our Values
Fighting bigotry in academia became the focus of the past month — whether at a NY high school, Maryland’s state university, or California’s Reform seminary… and celebrating a victory against bigotry at the US Supreme Court.
Baltimore Jewish Life: CJV Calls for “Sober Response” to Immigration Crisis
Senator Cruz has suggested a sincere, sober response, and we call for speedy consideration of his and other proposals to keep families together while also protecting children from abuse.
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.
On Separating Children From Parents and Incarcerating Orphans for Life Without Parole
The Seedier Media are aflutter: “But Trump is meeting with a tyrant, a dictator. How can we countenance that?” Did it bother the same mainstream media when Obama cozied up to Hugo Chavez and danced the salsa with the Castro party?
No Obstruction If Boss Cans Insubordinate Subordinate
The Inspector-General’s findings could not have been more clear: Comey was consistently insubordinate. That is precisely the word used in the report: insubordinate. No company, no business, no organization can function effectively with highly placed but subordinate people working at odds with their superiors, their management, their bosses.
Brooklyn High School in Jewish community honors Hamas
What if students wanted to honor the terrorists who murdered Taylor Force, a young American who was stabbed in a terrorist attack in Jaffa in 2016?
In Siding With Masterpiece Cakeshop, The OU Made A Tough Choice, But The Correct One
Being an Orthodox Jew and an Orthodox rabbi, one must realize that there is frequent conflict between contemporary societal values and the values of the Torah. The Torah requires us to follow the example of Abraham, whose trajectory was one of counterculture relative to the surrounding society’s values.
DeNiro and Trump
De Niro and friends have run out of things to say.
Not Even Your Bubbe’s HUC
The first ordination banquet of the Hebrew Union College of Reform Judaism did not go smoothly. A group of invited rabbis opened their menus, realized that the first course was to be little-neck clams, and immediately left. Fast forward 125 years, and once again the abandonment of Jewish values was too profound for some of those invited to bear.
Kol HaBirah: UMD Stands By Israel Studies Professor After Hostile Exchange Caught on Camera
In their statement released May 30, CJV accused Peri of “unbridled hostility towards religious activity” and questioned whether she could “demonstrate appropriate tolerance and accommodation of religious needs.”