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Religion News Service: Rabbinic group calls for review of professor in viral video bias incident
The CJV called for two universities to revisit the courses assigned to Professor Pnina Peri next year, and to mandate diversity and sensitivity training before her return to teaching.
NJ Jewish Link: Too Close to Home: Jewish Groups Oppose NYC Public School’s ‘Moment of Silence’ for Gaza Terrorists
The Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV), a rabbinic organization, was another early objector to Beacon’s moment of silence. “There are no two ways about it; claiming that Hamas operatives are ‘victims’ is to say that killing Jews is a peaceful activity,” said Rabbi Pesach Lerner, president of the coalition.
Jewish Press: Rabbinic Group Calls for Review of anti-Tefillin Professor
If Professor Peri’s hostility is so severe that it overwhelmed common decency and decorum in a public place, it is difficult to imagine how she could banish it from her classroom presentations for a full semester.
Frontpage Mag: Multicultural Gender Studies Prof Screams at Jewish Man for Practicing Judaism
The Coalition for Jewish Values has called for a review of Perry over the incident. Had she done this to Muslims, it’s unimaginable that she would still be employed.
Jewish News Service: Rabbinic group calls for review of professor berating men for putting on tefillin
“Her behavior was gratuitous and outrageous,” said Rabbi Steven Pruzansky, East Coast regional vice president of the CJV, “and appeared to reflect a deep-seated animus towards Jewish observance. Her derision and forced, sarcastic laughter were completely outside the behavior expected of rational adults.”
Israel Natl. News: Rabbinic group: Review professor in viral tefillin incident
CJV urges universities to revisit courses assigned to multiculturalism ‘specialist’ who attacked man for wearing tefillin.
Baltimore Jewish Life: Rabbinic Group Calls for Review of Professor in Viral Video Bias Incident
Professor Pnina Peri was caught on video mocking and shaming two men performing Jewish rituals.
Knock on the Door? Call on the Phone? Not in The New World
There was a knock on the door and the young couple was startled by the sound. I answered the door, took care of business, returned to the table and asked the couple why they jumped when they heard a knock. They replied that no one knocks on a door anymore; it is considered impolite.
Israeli Chief Rabbinate Slams The Door On Yeshivat Chovevei Torah
Farber has repeated at every opportunity that the Rabbanut maintains a “blacklist” with which it unfairly and capriciously rejects rabbis from chutz la’aretz, whereas in reality, the Rabbanut rejected Herzfeld for very substantive concerns.
Jewish Press: Editorial Tidbits
The Coalition for Jewish Values and the Zionist Organization of America strongly condemned the Beacon School of Manhattan, a highly selective college preparatory public school, for authorizing the use of its public address system to call for a moment of silence in tribute to “Palestinian victims of violence” in Gaza.