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Jonathan S. Tobin is editor-in-chief of the Jewish News Syndicate, a senior contributor for The Federalist, a columnist for Newsweek and a contributor to many other publications. He covers the American political scene, foreign policy, the U.S.-Israel relationship, Middle East diplomacy, the Jewish world and the arts. He hosts the JNS “Think Twice” podcast, both the weekly video program and the “Jonathan Tobin Daily” program, which are available on all major audio platforms and YouTube. Previously, he was executive editor, then senior online editor and chief political blogger, for Commentary magazine. Before that, he was editor-in-chief of The Jewish Exponent in Philadelphia and editor of the Connecticut Jewish Ledger. He has won more than 60 awards for commentary, art criticism and other writing. He appears regularly on television, commenting on politics and foreign policy. Born in New York City, he studied history at Columbia University.

The author joins JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin to discuss relations between Arabs and Jews, the current Israeli government, the peace process and anti-Semitism.
Historian Deborah Lipstadt’s nomination to be State Department envoy shouldn’t be held hostage to partisan anger. Still, her own outrageous partisanship undermines outrage about what’s happened.
Sheldon Adelson wasn’t like the others on the Forbes’ list of the world’s wealthiest people. And he didn’t care if his efforts to help the Jewish state thrive made him unpopular.
The Jan. 6 anniversary ought to make us ask why the nation is stuck in a partisan tribal culture war. Instead, leading Jewish groups are taking sides and fueling the fires of division.
Talk about goblins in the series about magical wizards being stand-ins for Jews or the product of anti-Semitic memes is a distraction from a necessary discussion of real Jew-hatred.
International legal scholar Eugene Kontorovich joins JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin.
While some cling to the myth of a two-state solution, recent statements by Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas are in line with the goals of those who want to destroy the Jewish state.
The Biden administration thinks the greatest threat to U.S. security is a partisan dispute about voting laws. Why are Jewish groups agreeing rather than pressuring it to stop Iran?
Study shows that despite the anodyne job title, woke politics and intersectionality can lead to college diversity officers helping to make campuses a hostile environment for Jews.
South Africa’s struggle was nothing like the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but the anti-apartheid leader’s bias showed how easily people can be led astray by such myths.
A CAIR leader’s anti-Semitic rant was shocking. Yet despite efforts to shift the narrative, the truth about the group that claims to represent Muslims has long been known.
The absence of the haredim from the coalition should have made it possible for the implementation of a more pluralistic Western Wall renovation. But political reality once again intruded.