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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
El-Sayed
Editor-in-Chief
A Democratic-run Congress will target Israel as well as Trump
The rout of the GOP by a party now dominated by “progressive” and antisemitic foes of the Jewish state will impact the alliance as well as American Jewish life for the worse.
November 4, 2026 01:42 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
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed testifies at a hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, July 11, 2024. Credit: U.S. Congress/Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Senior Contributing Editor
US midterms and the test of democracy
The growing influence of Muslim and progressive candidates hostile to Israel raises questions about antisemitism and the values underpinning Western democracy.
November 4, 2026 01:53 PM
Fiamma Nirenstein
United Arab List (Ra’am) party chairman Mansour Abbas stands alongside fellow party members on stage following the release of exit poll results in the northern Israeli city of Sakhnin, on Israel’s general election night, Oct. 27, 2026. Photo by Michael Giladi/Flash90.
Senior Contributor
The alarming rise of Islamic power
What happened in the Israeli election was the democratic version of Oct. 7.
October 29, 2026 01:14 PM
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
An election campaign poster featuring Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu alongside U.S. President Donald Trump is displayed on a bus in Jerusalem on Oct. 26, 2026. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
U.S.-Israel Relations
Trump, invite them
A unity government could strengthen Israel’s stability and reshape the Middle East, but Netanyahu and Eisenkot are unlikely to bridge their differences on their own.
Nov. 4, 2026
Amit Segal
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, a Democratic candidate for senator in the state of Michigan, at a campaign event at Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Mich., Oct. 22, 2025. Credit: Conlan Houston/Flickr via Wikimedia Commons.
U.S. Politics
The stain on Michigan
Jewish political loyalty should never be a substitute for Jewish self-respect.
Nov. 4, 2026
Alan Newman
Alexander Smukler. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
The Jewish prisoners we must not forget
Alexander Smukler
Moshiko Malka. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Israel’s democracy debate must include judicial power
Moshiko Malka
Duvi Honig. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
What was called aid to Israel was also Israel’s aid to America
Duvi Honig
Alan Newman. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
The stain on Michigan
Alan Newman
Catherine Perez-Shakdam. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
How Tehran taught the West to speak its language
Catherine Perez-Shakdam
Cédric Debernard. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Mistaking voters for the Muslim Brotherhood
Cédric Debernard
Israeli journalist Amit Segal in Tel Aviv, Sept. 15, 2024. Photo by Yehoshua Yosef/Flash90.
Opinion
Trump, invite them
Amit Segal
Morton A. Klein. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Arab parties hostile to Israel do not belong in Israel’s government
Morton A. Klein, Elizabeth A. Berney
Sarah N. Stern
Opinion
Let the horse-trading begin
Sarah N. Stern
Mike Evans
Opinion
When a church gives antisemitic rhetoric a platform, its leaders must speak out
Mike Evans