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Rabbis Welcome Commutation of Rubashkin Sentence
This was an extremely welcome decision from the Trump Administration. There was widespread, bipartisan sentiment that the prosecution was vindictive and the sentence disproportionate. His family has longed for this day for eight long years.
JNS: What will Yeshiva University do about professor who denounced Israel?
In a letter last week to YU President Berman, CJV President Rabbi Pesach Lerner and his colleagues argued that Olson’s participation in the divide-Jerusalem declaration is so far outside the Jewish community consensus that he is “harming the university’s reputation in the eyes of the Jewish community.”
Rabbis Advise Yeshiva University: Academic Freedom No Excuse for Bigotry
The CJV identified a Yeshiva University tenured professor as espousing “revisionist history” with a sharply anti-Israel bias, after he signed a statement by “Jewish Studies scholars” that falsified Jewish history.
True Tikkun Olam (Letter to Jewish Exponent)
What constitutes tikkun olam is not personal whim, but limited to that which realizes Jewish values found in Torah and traditional sources. Not only do we regard having a positive impact on the world as a Jewish and moral calling, but it is the raison d’etre of our organization.
Chanukah, Heroism, and President Trump
Chanukah is God’s reminder to stand strong for values – holy, eternal and true values – and to defy the majority in taking a moral stand.
The Growing Influence of the CJV
The Coalition for Jewish Values is rapidly becoming part of the landscape of Jewish organizations, representing an opinion to be considered. That is the best explanation of the significant change in the way the CJV is covered, at least in Jewish media. Oddly, and to...
Reform’s Celebration of Lawlessness
No one was “roughed up” due to being a Reform Jew, much as saying so delighted anti-Semitic bigots around the globe. Whatever violence transpired was directly attributable to the behavior of Rabbi Davidson and his colleagues.
Sometimes the obvious needs to be said
President Trump acknowledged that “Jerusalem is the eternal capital of Israel” is not just an applause line at a generation of AIPAC conferences. So, who would oppose such an obvious iteration of reality? It seems like almost everybody.
Israel Natl News: Reform Movement slams, then praises Trump’s recognition of J’lem
The Coalition for Jewish Values called the move “correct” and urged the president to complete “his pledge to move the embassy”.
Israel Natl News: Jewish organizations hail Trump’s Jerusalem move
The CJV noted that every other country chooses its capital, and all other countries place their embassies in those same cities to facilitate access to officials of the host government.