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Dov Fischer
Rabbi Dov Fischer, Esq., is Vice President of the Coalition for Jewish Values (comprising over 2,000 Orthodox rabbis), was adjunct professor of law at two prominent Southern California law schools for nearly 20 years, and is Rabbi of Young Israel of Orange County, California. He was Chief Articles Editor of UCLA Law Review and clerked for the Hon. Danny J. Boggs in the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit before practicing complex civil litigation for a decade at three of America’s most prominent law firms: Jones Day, Akin Gump, and Baker & Hostetler. He likewise has held leadership roles in several national Jewish organizations, including Zionist Organization of America, Rabbinical Council of America, and regional boards of the American Jewish Committee and B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundation. His writings have appeared in Newsweek, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Federalist, National Review, the Jerusalem Post, and Israel Hayom. A winner of an American Jurisprudence Award in Professional Legal Ethics, Rabbi Fischer also is the author of two books, including General Sharon’s War Against Time Magazine, which covered the Israeli General’s 1980s landmark libel suit. Other writings are collected at www.rabbidov.com.
by | Sep 23, 2023

Jews throughout the world are marking Yom Kippur 5784 this year from sunset on Sunday night, September 24, through nightfall on Monday the 25th. During those 25 hours, we may not eat, not drink (even water), may not apply creams…

by | Sep 21, 2023

My first article ever in The American Spectator appeared Aug. 18, 2017. In those days, my column was entitled “Dov Is All You Need.”  Thing is, “Dov” rhymes with “stove,” not “love,” so we eventually renamed the column to play on my triple…

by | Sep 8, 2023

Personal Note: I have been out of circulation these past two fortnights, keeping up with a slew of pre-scheduled medical appointments, all part of the standard regimen to assure lung transplant patients can continue writing long-term for The American Spectator. Adam Sandler’s new Netflix…

by | Aug 7, 2023

There really are two tiers of justice in America. Anticipate them to continue throwing the book at Trump. Listen carefully, and you may just hear this conversation at a meeting of Merrick Garland, Jack Smith, and Alvin Bragg: “Donald Trump…

by | Aug 2, 2023

Among observant Jews, we do not listen to music during the Three Weeks in the Hebrew calendar from 17 Tamuz to the Ninth of Av, the period when the Babylonians under Nebuchadnezzar ransacked Jerusalem and burned the First Beit HaMikdash, the…

by | Aug 1, 2023

Jason Aldean does not need an Orthodox rabbi to come to his defense. My endorsement will not increase his sales of “Try That in a Small Town” in Alabama and Mississippi, and I am not sure how many extra records…

by | Jul 26, 2023

Eighty percent of American Jews have absolutely no idea what Judaism is. You see them on TV. You read them in some publications. Aside from the despicable George Soros and communist Bernie Sanders, these “Lost Jews” likewise are bereft of heritage and…

by | Jul 25, 2023

Last November, the voters of Israel democratically elected — by a significant majority — a moderately conservative, center-right government that likewise is sympathetic to traditional family values. Just as the Left in America blazes forth with its worst venom against…

by | Jul 18, 2023

My readers and I enjoy a long-time reciprocal understanding: In return for putting up with me, my florid prose, wondering where I am flying with my article but amazed that I always safely land there, and sustaining my occasional puns,…

by | Jul 17, 2023

Rep. Ilhan Omar states that “there is no way in Hell” she will attend the forthcoming address to Congress by Israeli President Isaac Herzog. The Squad of five (composing 1 percent of 435 House representatives) have unified behind the Herzog…

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