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Coalition for Jewish Values condemns CCAR’s attack on the Bible and President Trump

CJV is grateful to the Trump administration for recognizing both biblical doctrine and biological science.

A 1,200-year-old Jewish prayer book, or siddur, is displayed at the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem on Sept. 18, 2014. Originating from the Middle East, the 50-page-long book written in Hebrew is the oldest known manuscript of Jewish prayers. Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.
A 1,200-year-old Jewish prayer book, or siddur, is displayed at the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem on Sept. 18, 2014. Originating from the Middle East, the 50-page-long book written in Hebrew is the oldest known manuscript of Jewish prayers. Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.

Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV), representing more than 2,500 traditional, Orthodox rabbis in American public policy, rejected and condemned the claim by the Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR) that President Donald Trump’s recognition of biological science and the Bible constitutes an “attack” upon “millions of Americans who are transgender, nonbinary, intersex or any other gender that does not conform to the enforced binary.”

This comes after the CCAR issued a statement, “Central Conference of American Rabbis condemns federal government’s attacks on nonbinary and transgender Americans.”

The CCAR communication claims falsely that “for millennia, Judaism has recognized multiple genders,” given that “multiple” means greater than two. The Torah says explicitly that “male and female He created them,” indicating that there are but two normative genders—precisely in accordance with Trump’s statement that the CCAR so vocally disparages.

The Talmud addresses various biological aberrations, but there is no source in Judaism for the modern notion of “nonbinary” genders dependent upon the beliefs of victims of gender dysphoria.

It is revealing that the CCAR declares that Reform Jews are “religiously obligated” to accept a person’s “gender identity.” According to the CCAR, Reform Jews are not religiously obligated to observe the Sabbath, keep kosher or follow particularistic Jewish law in any other area. But, the CCAR intones, they are religiously obligated to observe progressive doctrine. It could hardly be more clear that the CCAR does not follow Judaism but rather progressivism, and all pretenses to the former are null and void.

Coalition for Jewish Values is grateful to the Trump administration for recognizing both biblical doctrine and biological science.

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