Rabbi Menken: Heritage’s Moral Collapse ‘Threat to American Civilization’

Rabbi Yaakov Menken blasted the Heritage Foundation under the leadership of President Kevin Roberts, saying it “really needs to realize the danger” it has unleashed by defending Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes’ antisemitism under the guise of conservatism.

Appearing Friday on Newsmax’s “American Agenda,” the executive vice president for the Coalition for Jewish Values — an organization that represents over 2,500 Orthodox rabbis nationwide — said his organization left the Heritage Foundation’s National Task Force to Combat Antisemitism after deafening silence and shocking deflection from Roberts.

“It was actually Tuesday morning on Newsmax’s ‘Wake Up America’ that I announced we were leaving the National Task Force because Kevin Roberts had not been responding at all adequately to criticism of that first atrocious video,” Menken said.

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