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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
Democratic senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed speaks onstage after declaring victory in Michigan's Senate race in Detroit on Nov. 4, 2026. Photo by Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images.
Senior Contributor
Not waving but drowning
Momentum in America is with the red-green alliance because centrists lack a moral and intellectual spine.
November 5, 2026 12:29 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
Kristallnacht
Diaspora Jewry
Protecting Jews is a test of democracy
On the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the International March of the Living brings together law enforcement professionals from around the world.
Nov. 5, 2026
Phyllis Greenberg Heideman
A billboard displaying Iranian Ayatollahs Ruhollah Khomeini and Ali Khamenei. Credit: Erdalislakphotography/Shutterstock.
Anti-Israel Bias
How Tehran taught the West to speak its language
The Islamic Republic’s greatest achievement may be persuading the West to repeat its accusations against Israel without recognizing their origins.
Nov. 4, 2026
Catherine Perez-Shakdam
Opinion
The Negev and the Galilee are at stake
Eran Rolls
Opinion
Palestinian terror killed the ‘two-state solution’
Henry Kopel
Opinion
Protecting Jews is a test of democracy
Phyllis Greenberg Heideman
Alexander Smukler. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
The Jewish prisoners we must not forget
Alexander Smukler
Duvi Honig. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
What was called aid to Israel was also Israel’s aid to America
Duvi Honig
Moshiko Malka. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Israel’s democracy debate must include judicial power
Moshiko Malka
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