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Points of view from across the Jewish world

Jonathan S. Tobin
Jonathan S. Tobin
Editor-in-Chief
Ruthie Blum
Senior Contributing Editor
Fiamma Nirenstein
Fiamma Nirenstein
Senior Contributing Editor
Melanie Phillips
Melanie Phillips
Senior Contributor
Michigan Senate candidates Democrat Dr. Abdul El-Sayed (left) and Republican Mike Rogers, a former U.S. House representative for Michigan, debate at WXYZ Channel 7 in Southfield, Mich., on Oct. 21, 2026. Photo by Robin Buckson-Pool/Getty Images.
Editor-in-Chief
El-Sayed’s viral video was a diversionary tactic, not his JFK moment
The candidate for U.S. Senate thinks it’s wrong to ask him to repudiate the Muslim Brotherhood, despite his family ties. Riots in France show where America might be headed.
October 22, 2026 08:45 AM
Jonathan S. Tobin
Navi Pillay, chair of the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, addresses a press conference. Credit: Jean-Marc Ferré/U.N. Photo.
Senior Contributing Editor
A ‘peace prize’ for the vilification of Israel
Honoring Navi Pillay highlights the moral rot of the United Nations and Nobel Committee.
October 9, 2026 08:34 AM
Ruthie Blum
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House, July 28, 2026. Credit: Ma’ayan Toaf/GPO.
Senior Contributing Editor
Iran beyond the elections
In recent days, the life-and-death confrontation between Iran and Israel has gone far beyond words—and this is happening in the final days before Israel’s elections.
October 21, 2026 03:00 PM
Fiamma Nirenstein
American photojournalist Heidi Levine receives medical treatment at a hospital in Ramallah after being injured in an attack by extremist Jewish settlers during the annual olive harvest in the village of Abu Falah near Ramallah, Oct. 16, 2026. Photo by Flash90.
Senior Contributor
The war against the Jews in Judea and Samaria
“Settler violence” is a malevolently distorted canard.
October 22, 2026 11:30 AM
Melanie Phillips
Mitchell Bard
Mitchell Bard
Featured Columnist
Ben Cohen. Credit: Courtesy.
Ben Cohen
Featured Columnist
Rabbi Yossy Goldman. Credit: Ricci Goldstein Photography.
Rabbi Yossy Goldman
Featured Columnist
Benjamin Kerstein. Credit: Courtesy.
Benjamin Kerstein
Featured Columnist
Yisrael Medad. Credit: Courtesy.
Yisrael Medad
Featured Columnist
Israeli journalist Amit Segal in Tel Aviv, Sept. 15, 2024. Photo by Yehoshua Yosef/Flash90.
Amit Segal
Guest Columnist
Manchester March 2024
Western Europe
Questions lingering on Jewish minds in the United Kingdom
A combination of political challenge, social exclusion and physical violence has left many questioning their future.
Oct. 22, 2026
Marcus Dysch
Baku, Azerbaijan
Foreign Affairs
Where the interests of America, Israel and Turkey become intertwined
Another country that could aid U.S. diplomacy in the Mediterranean conflict is Azerbaijan.
Oct. 20, 2026
Roman Gurevich
Danny Danon. Credit: U.N. Photo.
Opinion
Israel’s democracy is strong, even though extremists want to test it
Danny Danon
Daniel-Ryan Spaulding. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Kathy Griffin and the end of allyship
Daniel-Ryan Spaulding
Marcus Dysch. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Questions lingering on Jewish minds in the United Kingdom
Marcus Dysch
Opinion
DC media outlet’s crusade against Israel
Michael Berenhaus
Tamar Pross. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
How Tel Aviv-style Hebrew is rebuilding Jewish identity
Tamar Pross
Avi Abelow
Opinion
Israel isn’t why America is turning
Avi Abelow
Jason Shvili. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Nobel Peace Prize goes to the world’s most slanderous UN antisemite
Jason Shvili
Rotem Oreg-Kalisky. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
From Athens to Jerusalem
Rotem Oreg-Kalisky
Rabbi Yossi Goldin. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
‘Lech Lecha’: Celebrating ‘olim’ and their communities in Israel
Rabbi Yossi Goldin
Stephen M. Flatow. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Zionism needs no progressive permission
Stephen M. Flatow