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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
The Off-Broadway theater in New York City’s East Village where the satirical hip-hop musical “Slam Frank” was performed, Oct. 9, 2026. Photo by Jonathan Tobin.
Editor-in-Chief
A satire about Anne Frank explains woke antisemitism
The Off-Broadway satire “Slam Frank” claims it’s an equal-opportunity offender. But while it mocks theater hits and identity politics, it’s deadly serious about demonizing Jews.
October 9, 2026 07:14 PM
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
Navi Pillay. Credit: U.N. News/United Nations.
Senior Contributing Editor
Nobel rewards Navi Pillay’s anti-Israel crusade
The international embrace of the South African jurist who led the U.N. commission accusing Israel of genocide shows how human rights have been subsumed by Palestinianism.
October 10, 2026 12:25 PM
Fiamma Nirenstein
A “Free Palestine” poster is displayed for sale on day one of the Green Party annual conference at Brighton Centre in Brighton, England, on Oct. 2, 2026. Photo by Alishia Abodunde/Getty Images.
Senior Contributor
The Jewish fifth columnists
Outrage over anti-Israel extremists shouldn’t obscure the bigotry of much mainstream thinking.
October 8, 2026 03:00 PM
Melanie Phillips
Ben Cohen. Credit: Courtesy.
Ben Cohen
Featured Columnist
Israeli journalist Amit Segal in Tel Aviv, Sept. 15, 2024. Photo by Yehoshua Yosef/Flash90.
Amit Segal
Guest Columnist
Benjamin Kerstein. Credit: Courtesy.
Benjamin Kerstein
Featured Columnist
Pro-Palestinian Protest, Encampment, San Diego State University
Campus Antisemitism
Sept. 11 and Oct. 7 bookend the decline of higher education
Campuses across the United States have fallen to anti-American and anti-Israel ideologues.
Oct. 8, 2026
Alex Joffe, Asaf Romirowsky
Protesters march with a banner reading “Faced with repression, unity and class” during a rally in Marseille, as part of nationwide public sector strikes and demonstrations, Sept. 29, 2026. Photo by Thibaud Moritz/AFP via Getty Images.
Oct. 7
Never forget. Never forgive.
Three years after the Hamas atrocities of Oct. 7, Jews are once again being hunted.
Oct. 9, 2026
Ben Cohen
Rabbi Uri Pilichoski. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
You can’t know Israel if you skip Judea and Samaria
Rabbi Uri Pilichowski
James Sinkinson. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Lions vs. cowards in the face of global jihad
James Sinkinson
Daniel S. Mariaschin. Credit: B’nai B’rith International.
Opinion
A book on anti-Zionism for anti-Zionists
Daniel S. Mariaschin
Joseph Milstein. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Selma Blair’s punishment by silence
Joseph Milstein
Erez Levin. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
The banality of the blood libel
Erez Levin
Alex Joffe. Credit: Courtesy.
Asaf Romirowsky
Opinion
Sept. 11 and Oct. 7 bookend the decline of higher education
Alex Joffe, Asaf Romirowsky
Rabbi Avi Weiss. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Mr. Mamdani, you couldn’t even give us one day to mourn?
Rabbi Avi Weiss
Gerald Platt. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Graphic nature notwithstanding, the world needs to see what Hamas did
Gerald Platt
Rabbi Steven Burg
Opinion
Mamdani wants two kinds of Jews
Rabbi Steven Burg
Brian McDonald. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Latin America is turning more pro-Israel
Brian McDonald