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Dov Fischer

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 | May 23, 2024

This is the final installment of my series proposing ways to fix the moral and educational rot that has infested American…

by | May 16, 2024

My previous four installments in this series have proposed, inter alia, that (i) laws be enacted like those of FIRREA to hold university trustees…

by | May 12, 2024

How many fields of pursuit in America come with a guarantee that the employee can never be fired? Owners typically cannot…

by | May 9, 2024

My prior two installments in this series are here and here. I urge you to read them for background and context. Because of…

by | May 4, 2024

If you have not done so, I urge you to read Part One of this series here. For years we have…

by | May 3, 2024

The glorious eight-day festival of Pesach (Passover) ended Tuesday night. It coincided with the end of a challenging four-week recovery…

by | Apr 26, 2024

I grew up in the 1960s as an Orthodox Jew in a semi-parochial community in Brooklyn, New York, a neighborhood…

by | Apr 22, 2024

The eight-day Biblical festival of Pesach (Hebrew for Passover) begins this Monday night, April 22 (Exodus 12). It is the…

by | Apr 18, 2024

I attended UCLA School of Law from August 1990 to May 1993. I was chief articles editor of the UCLA…

by | Apr 16, 2024

I have been hospitalized for three more weeks. I entered for surgery on an esophageal hernia repair, was told to…

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