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Stephen M. Flatow

Stephen M. Flatow is president of the Religious Zionists of America. He is the father of Alisa Flatow, who was murdered in an Iranian-sponsored Palestinian terrorist attack in 1995, and author of A Father’s Story: My Fight for Justice Against Iranian Terror. (The RZA is not affiliated with any American or Israeli political party.)

Parchment Paper
Featured Columnist
A constitution that cannot bring itself to mention ‘Israel’
Peace requires more than institutional architecture. It requires intellectual honesty.
Feb. 17, 2026
Stephen M. Flatow
Falafel
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When an ‘Israeli’ menu item suddenly becomes distasteful
A falafel flap exposes the new rules of student speech on American college campuses.
Feb. 10, 2026
Stephen M. Flatow
Noah Wyle, winner of the Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Series–Drama award for "The Pitt," in the press room during the 83rd annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton on Jan. 11, 2026 in Beverly Hills, Calif. Photo by Frazer Harrison/Wire Image.
Featured Columnist
What a TV doctor teaches about Jewish values
A prime-time drama shows how Judaism has shaped American medicine—not through quotas or slogans, but through a professional culture that prizes life, dignity and obligation.
Feb. 3, 2026
Stephen M. Flatow
Scott Wiener, a Democratic state senator in California, speaks during the CDP State Convention: Tax Fairness for All Families in Anaheim, Calif., on May 31, 2025. Photo by John Sciulli/Getty Images for Economic Security Project, Inc.
Featured Columnist
When Jewish politicians fail the antisemitism smell test
Words like “genocide” and “apartheid” are not neutral descriptors. They are legal claims implying criminal intent to destroy a people.
Jan. 27, 2026
Stephen M. Flatow
IDF Near Gaza
Featured Columnist
Post-war, who governs Gaza matters more than who talks peace
Order requires the defeat not only of an armed force, but of the ideology and power structures that sustained it.
Jan. 21, 2026
Stephen M. Flatow
Mamdani Letitia James
Featured Columnist
When the state polices Jewish activism, lines must be drawn
Today’s target may be Betar. Tomorrow’s could be a campus Hillel, pro-Israel nonprofit or Jewish defense group that refuses to be polite.
Jan. 15, 2026
Stephen M. Flatow
Iran Protests, Mahsa Amini
Featured Columnist
Victims watch as the mullahs crumble, and wonder if justice will finally catch up
The fall of a regime does not erase the crimes it committed, and it should not erase the judgments that follow.
Jan. 13, 2026
Stephen M. Flatow
Nicolás Maduro Second Inaguration 2019
Featured Columnist
When ‘Zionist plot’ replaces legitimacy: Maduro, Venezuela and America’s red lines
The charge was as ugly as it was predictable, reaching reflexively for conspiracy when accountability proved inconvenient.
Jan. 6, 2026
Stephen M. Flatow
F-15 Fighter Jet
Featured Columnist
2025: When Israel took the war beyond its borders
The message was unmistakable: Those who plan, finance and coordinate terror are combatants, regardless of how far they sit from the front lines.
Dec. 30, 2025
Stephen M. Flatow
First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Credit: J. Frederick/Shutterstock.
Opinion
When a preacher says the Constitution must yield to Sharia, Americans should listen
A radical minority, sometimes funded from abroad and amplified by social media, is pushing a hardline ideological agenda while benefiting from the liberties it seeks to weaken.
Dec. 22, 2025
Stephen M. Flatow
Chanukah Menorah
Featured Columnist
Not just for Chanukah: A weekly anthem of Jewish resilience
Within the song “Maoz Tzur” is a prayer that history bends toward justice and that the moral order of the universe is not a fairy tale.
Dec. 15, 2025
Stephen M. Flatow
O.R. Tambo International Airport in South Africa
Opinion
South Africa just made life harder for Palestinians
The country’s leaders cancel visa-free entry for Gazans to make a political point about Israel, once again revealing their real priorities.
Dec. 9, 2025
Stephen M. Flatow
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