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Frontpage Mag: Anti-Semitism on Full Display at Ben-Gurion Airport
In a letter addressed to the University of Maryland and the American University, the CJV said that Peri’s outburst demonstrated “unbridled hostility towards religious activity” which calls into doubt her ability to “demonstrate appropriate tolerance and accommodation of religious needs.”
Baltimore Jewish Life: Rabbis Welcome Supreme Court Decision in Masterpiece Cakeshop Case
The premise of the case was patently absurd.
Rabbis Welcome Supreme Court Decision in Masterpiece Cakeshop Case
Leftist groups attempted to elevate same-sex marriage to be a fundamental matter of identity, such that not baking a wedding cake would be akin to refusing service to blacks or Jews. That would not enhance civil rights; it would have trampled them, sacrificing religious freedoms ensconced in the First Amendment on the altar of political correctness.
The never-ending saga of unrecognized American conversions
Why blame the Israeli Rabbinate for not recognizing American “Conversions” that American Orthodox Rabbis also do not recognize?
Yeshiva World: A NEW LOW: Reform College Commencement Speaker Slams Jews Marrying Jews, Intermarriage “The Source Of All Human Greatness”
Ellenson responded: “it does not occur to us at HUC-JIR to quash or vilify political criticism of Israel out of a preemptive fear of controversy.” He even claimed that Zaray’s tearful essay, bemoaning how Ellenson and Chabon “ambushed” and ruined her graduation, was testament to the diversity of opinion at HUC-JIR.
Washington Jewish Week: Video shows U-Md professor shouting at men in Israel airport
In an interview with Washington Jewish Week, CJV Managing Director Yaakov Menken said the purpose of the letter was to ask the university to mandate diversity training for Peri to “help her get past being offended by public personal displays of religion.”
Baltimore Jewish Life: Did Beacon High School Honor Barbarism?
Given the proven correlation between ‘anti-Israel’ activities such as this one and open Antisemitism, the school has created a hostile environment for its Jewish students, and even opened itself to a claim of liability should anything transpire.
Did Beacon High School Honor Barbarism?
In a sharply-worded letter to Ruth Lacey, Principal of Beacon High School in Manhattan, Rabbi Pesach Lerner, President of the Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV), questioned whether the school was “honoring humanity, or barbarism.”
Queens Jewish Link: Prominent NYC Public School ‘Abandoned Its Educational Mission,’ Says Rabbinic Group
The CJV cited three ways that the school’s moment of silence failed its educational mission.
Jews Marrying Jews: That’s Apparently The Problem
At the HUC graduation, Chabon said that intermarriage is “the source of all human greatness” while “endogamous marriage is a ghetto of two.” He condemned Judaism in particular, saying, “[A]ny religion that relies on compulsory endogamy to survive has, in my view, ceased to make the case for its continued validity.”