Rabbi Reuven Taff

[Rabbi Reuven Taff @RabbiTaff]

Mr. President, with all due respect, you are entitled to your own opinions, but not to your own facts.

The historical record includes extensive evidence that contradicts your statement:

Between 1915 and 1917, an estimated 600,000 to 1.5 million Armenians died during the mass deportations and killings carried out by the Ottoman government.

Hundreds of thousands of Armenians were forcibly deported from their homes, many dying during death marches through the Syrian desert.

Armenian churches, schools, villages, and cultural heritage sites were systematically destroyed or confiscated.
The overwhelming consensus of genocide scholars recognizes these events as the Armenian Genocide.

More than 30 countries, along with numerous international organizations and historians, have formally recognized the Armenian Genocide.

Acknowledging historical atrocities is not an attack on modern Turkey—it is an affirmation that historical truth matters.

History deserves honesty, not denial. @RTErdogan @Turkey @TurkeyAffairs @realDonaldTrump @WhiteHouse @SecRubio

[Rabbi Reuven Taff @RabbiTaff]

Mr. Prime Minister,

It is commendable that you are advocating for and funding new initiatives to strengthen Jewish education in the Diaspora. But I respectfully ask: why did you and your government abandon the thousands of Israelis who were terrorized on October 7?

My wife and I visited Kibbutz Nir Oz last week. We listened to the harrowing testimony of a survivor who described feeling abandoned by you and your government. We stood before a burned home marked with the words “הופקרנו”—“We were abandoned.”

To this day, you have not apologized to the victims and their families. To this day, you have not publicly accepted responsibility for the massacre that occurred under your watch.

For weeks before October 7, the women serving at the Nahal Oz observation post repeatedly reported unusual activity in Gaza. Those warnings were not acted upon.

Mr. Prime Minister, true leadership requires accountability. The people of Israel deserve leaders who accept responsibility for their failures, ask forgiveness of those they have failed, and restore the public’s trust.

The Jewish education you are championing in the Diaspora should reflect the enduring Jewish values of emet (truth), achrayut (responsibility), tzedek (justice), anavah (humility), and cheshbon hanefesh (moral self-examination). Those values begin with leaders who tell the truth, accept responsibility, and ask forgiveness when they fail their people. @yaakovkatz @davidhorovitz @YKleinHalevi @havivrettiggur @JoshKraushaar

[Rabbi Reuven Taff @RabbiTaff]

Mr. Mayor, you and your socialist colleagues may win elections, but history has already judged socialism. Every nation that embraced it was promised fairness and prosperity.

Too many ended up with less freedom, less opportunity, more government, and weaker economies.

America doesn’t need another socialist experiment. @NYCMayor @ZohranKMamdani

[Rabbi Reuven Taff @RabbiTaff]

Israel’s commitment to remembering the Holocaust carries a moral responsibility to recognize other genocides as well. Honoring historical truth—including the Armenian genocide—is not politics; it is principle.

Turkey’s unconscionable decades-long campaign of denial and intimidation cannot erase the murder of 1.5 million Armenians or rewrite history. @RTErdogan @realDonaldTrump @SecRubio

[Rabbi Reuven Taff @RabbiTaff]

Mr. Lander, many Jews see your stance on Israel as a betrayal of the Jewish state's legitimacy.

In an effort to align yourself with the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, you've embraced rhetoric and positions that many believe have helped normalize antisemitism and efforts to delegitimize Israel.

You are, of course, entitled to your views—but history is full of Jews who believed they could distance themselves from their people, only to discover that the antisemites never made that distinction. To them, a Jew is a Jew is a Jew!
@bradlander @SenSanders @SenSchumer @SenAdamSchiff @jamie_raskin @JoshKraushaar @DavidSuissaJJ @RepDanGoldman

[Rabbi Reuven Taff @RabbiTaff]

President Trump praises JD Vance's role in the Iran negotiations.

Thane Rosenbaum argues the opposite—that J.D. Vance was the wrong messenger and that the resulting MOU represents a major strategic concession to Tehran.

A powerful critique that deserves attention: @realDonaldTrump @WhiteHouse @VP @JDVance @SecRubio @SteveWitkoff @jaredkushner

https://t.co/2LMeSl5mwA

[Rabbi Reuven Taff @RabbiTaff]

One of the most compelling analyses I've read on the Iran MOU.

Thane Rosenbaum argues that the agreement gives Tehran time, money, and legitimacy while leaving critical security concerns unresolved.

Mr. President, I hope you will read this important article, which brilliantly sums up why this deal is far worse than the Obama deal you rightfully spent years exposing and opposing. @realDonaldTrump @WhiteHouse @VP @JDVance @SecRubio @jaredkushner @SteveWitkoff @JoshKraushaar @DavidSuissaJJ @thanerosenbaum

Trump has done himself no favors with this MOU. His “art of the deal” is now defrocked as a fairy tale. https://t.co/2LMeSl5mwA

[Rabbi Reuven Taff @RabbiTaff]

I spent seven years as an elementary school principal.
Outside partnerships can benefit students—but they require transparency.

What I discovered about my former school district's relationship with CAIR raises serious questions.

My latest in @TimesofIsrael:
https://t.co/2mfqFk9CGb @AsraNomani @ActionPde @jewishinsider @benshapiro @CAedchat @ADL

[Rabbi Reuven Taff @RabbiTaff]

@jewishinsider @DanielleCoh07 Vice President Vance, this isn’t a debate about definitions.

It’s about a rising threat of Jew-hatred that too often gets minimized instead of named. @VP @JDVance

[Rabbi Reuven Taff @RabbiTaff]

Interesting that the Vice President hasn’t said a word.

First, the Qatari Prime Minister effectively snubs JD Vance.

Now Iran is praising diplomacy—not because iran was defeated, but because it extracted what pressure was supposed to prevent: survival, leverage, and concessions.

When Tehran is celebrating and Washington is silent, it’s hard to call that anything other than a huge diplomatic failure. @realDonaldTrump @WhiteHouse @VP @SecRubio

[Rabbi Reuven Taff @RabbiTaff]

Thank you Governor for your spot-on comments!

Iran did not surrender. It outlasted the pressure and got rewarded for it.

When a terror-sponsoring regime walks away richer and more emboldened, everyone should understand who won and who lost.

Sadly, the U.S. has been humiliated by the very regime we were supposed to be holding accountable. @realDonaldTrump @WhiteHouse @VP @SecRubio

[Rabbi Reuven Taff @RabbiTaff]

@AP History will not remember how many meetings were held in Switzerland. It will remember whether the Iranian regime emerged weaker or stronger.

Sadly, everyone knows the answer. Tehran was on the ropes, and President Trump threw it a lifeline.

[Rabbi Reuven Taff @RabbiTaff]

Mr. President, if the Iranian regime survives with its proxies, ballistic missiles, and drones intact, then this is not a victory.

It is a gift to a regime that chants "Death to America" and calls for Israel's destruction.

I’m sorry Mr. President. This is NOT a win—It's surrender masqueraded as diplomacy.@realDonaldTrump @SecRubio

[Rabbi Reuven Taff @RabbiTaff]

Haviv Rettig Gur nails it!

The most troubling part is not the deal itself—it's the perception of desperation.

Negotiations work when your enemy believes you're willing to walk away. The moment you signal that you need the agreement more than they do, you've surrendered your strongest leverage.

The Iranian regime spent decades chanting "Death to America" and calling for Israel's annihilation.

A ceasefire can end a battle. It cannot end an ideology. If the jihadist regime survives with its power intact, its proxies intact, and its ambitions intact, then this is not peace—it is surrender.

Mr. President, do not let domestic politics hand the Iranian regime the victory it could never achieve on the battlefield.

Don't tie Israel's hands.

Finish the job.
@realDonaldTrump @WhiteHouse @SecRubio @JoshKraushaar @jewishinsider

[Rabbi Reuven Taff @RabbiTaff]

A 14-point plan that says nothing about Iran’s ballistic missiles, drones, or terror proxies is not a peace plan — it is a concession package.

Billions of dollars for relief, released funds, and economic rewards while Iran keeps its weapons capability intact?

That is surrender to the Jihadist regime. @realDonaldTrump @WhiteHouse @SecRubio

[Rabbi Reuven Taff @RabbiTaff]

A rupture isn't coming because Israel defended itself.

A rupture is coming because Israel fought and bled to stop an existential threat, only to watch Washington throw Israel under the bus—and throw the Iranian regime a lifeline at the negotiating table.

The mullahs should have been finished. Instead, they were rescued.

[Rabbi Reuven Taff @RabbiTaff]

From "ultimate alternative" to "great deal" in a single weekend.

The only people celebrating tonight are the mullahs in Tehran.

After decades of terrorism, nuclear deception, and threats against America and Israel, the regime survives to fight another day. @WhiteHouse @POTUS @realDonaldTrump @SecRubio

[Rabbi Reuven Taff @RabbiTaff]

Congratulations indeed—to the Islamic Republic.

After years of aggression, terrorism, nuclear deception, and threats against America and Israel, the regime survives to fight another day.

That is not the outcome many were hoping for.

The mullahs are celebrating tonight. They endured the pressure, protected their regime, and lived to continue the fight.

That should concern every American and every ally who believed this time would be different.

[Rabbi Reuven Taff @RabbiTaff]

Congratulations indeed—to the Islamic Republic.

After years of aggression, terrorism, nuclear deception, and threats against America and Israel, the regime survives to fight another day.

That is not the outcome many were hoping for.

The mullahs are celebrating tonight. They endured the pressure, protected their regime, and lived to continue the fight.

That should concern every American and every ally who believed this time would be different.@realDonaldTrump @SecRubio @WhiteHouse

[Rabbi Reuven Taff @RabbiTaff]

@RashidaTlaib This isn't hard: A war against a terrorist army that invaded your country, murdered your citizens, took hostages, and vows to do it again—is not genocide.

That’s self-defense!