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Rabbis Celebrate Trump Executive Order on Religious Liberty
President Trump’s new Executive Order on religious liberty is a clear win for all Americans and all faiths. It is indeed the end of an era, and it comes not a moment too soon.
A Sad Day for American Jewish Media
When it is the editor of The Forward who expresses her "dread, despair and embarrassment" that Israel avoided extermination in 1967, we can express our disappointment, but few of us are surprised.
Are Liberal Jewish Lawmakers “Clueless on Anti-Semitism?” Prominent Rabbis Say Yes
This is yet another shameful accusation of anti-Semitism from Jewish Democrats against those whose views do not conform to their own, as if Judaism and liberalism were one and the same.
Rabbis Accuse Tufts University of “Fostering an AntiSemitic Environment”
Tufts administrators took sides in a manner that neatly inverted the haters and the hated, and thus directly contributed to the environment which led to the grotesque and underhanded passage of an anti-Semitic student government resolution on the eve of Passover.
The Transgender Madness Has Got to Stop
The knee-jerk tendency to assume (and wish?) that people are transgender has become so pervasive that anyone who shows interest in that which is not wholly typical for his or her gender is suspected of very likely being “trans”.
Passover: A Message of Personal Responsibility
The Sages of the Talmud and classical rabbinic commentaries view Passover not only as a celebration of the physical freedom attained by the Hebrews enslaved in Egypt over three and a half millennia ago, but also as a celebration of the freedom to abide by the divine moral law and the freedom to rein in one’s personal inclination to sin.
Rabbis Back VP Pence as “Model Example of Spousal Conduct”
Pence represents an often necessary and cautious approach to social relationships between the genders, a safeguarding of one’s marriage, and a recognition of the valor and mindfulness needed by both men and women to be circumspect.
Rabbis Endorse Confirmation of Judge Gorsuch for SCOTUS
Judge Gorsuch continually demonstrated great intelligence, deep personal integrity, and an unswerving dedication to historic principles of Constitutional law, including the First Amendment’s protections of religious liberty.
A Dynamic New Voice Champions Torah Values In The Public Square
As requested by the Jewish Press: CJV Senior Rabbinic Fellow Rabbi Avrohom Gordimer wrote about the formation of the CJV, why it was necessary and what we have already accomplished.
CJV Contributes to Moral Understanding
The CJV, in a statement, said as follows: “There is no moral responsibility to pay the bills of a regime such as the PA, which has enough funds to pay its own bills but refuses to do so in order to use its money to pay salaries to terrorists.”