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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
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) enters the Public Citizen's Combating Corruption forum at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on July 30, 2026. He called for stronger anti-corruption measures in the U.S. government by proposing a new independent Anti-Corruption Bureau. Photo by Finn Gomez/Getty Images.
Editor-in-Chief
A man of courage was needed. Instead, American Jews have Schumer
The Democrats’ Senate leader may have had no choice but to endorse El-Sayed following his primary victory. Business as usual has normalized Jew-hatred.
August 7, 2026 06:30 PM
Jonathan S. Tobin
A polling station in Jerusalem during the second round of Israeli elections, on Sept. 17, 2019. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
What’s the right way to beat the left?
Israelis ought to heed Abe Greenwald’s warning that “naming and shaming the big, glaring, awful thing that defines one’s opponent doesn’t have the persuasive power we’d like to think.”
August 10, 2026 05:30 PM
Ruthie Blum
Former Italian Prime Minister and Five Star Movement President Giuseppe Conte participates in the "Truth Day" event of the newspaper La Verità at the Roman Aquarium, June 23, 2026, in Rome, Italy. Photo by Simona Granati-Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images.
Senior Contributing Editor
At the site of a Nazi massacre, the Jews are forgotten
Former Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte invokes Gaza at Sant’Anna di Stazzema while ignoring the antisemitic hatred behind the Oct. 7 massacre.
August 14, 2026 01:30 AM
Fiamma Nirenstein
Typewriter With Word Truth
Senior Contributor
Gaslighting on steroids
The libels against Israel are all falling apart.
August 13, 2026 02:05 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
Columnist
Benjamin Kerstein. Credit: Courtesy.
Benjamin Kerstein
Featured Columnist
Mamdani Hochul Levine
Diaspora Jewry
Are New York rabbis really ‘beseeching’ Mamdani?
Jews should not be pleading with the mayor, but demanding their inherent rights.
Aug. 13, 2026
Gregg Mashberg
Shia Muslim pilgrims hold a portrait of Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei as they take a selfie in the holy city of Karbala, Iraq on July 31, 2026. Photo by Karar Jabbar/AFP/Getty Images.
Middle East
The age of Iran’s killers and criminals
The new military hierarchy under Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei doesn’t show a government preparing for reform. It shows a regime struggling to survive.
Aug. 13, 2026
Erfan Fard
Rabbi Avi Shafran. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Inspired by antisemitism
Rabbi Avi Shafran
Efrat Last. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Why democracies keep looking for kings
Efrat Last
Kamyar Behrang. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Iran’s new command structure is built for the long haul
Kamyar Behrang
Gregg Mashberg. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Are New York rabbis really ‘beseeching’ Mamdani?
Gregg Mashberg
Nassir Hussein Kahin. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Somaliland is Jerusalem’s answer to the Mecca defense pact
Nassir Hussein Kahin
Opinion
The age of Iran’s killers and criminals
Erfan Fard
Ariella Goldwicht. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
A tribute to Rabbi Berel Wein
Ariella Goldwicht
Farley Weiss. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Ro Khanna attempts to take Israel hostage
Farley Weiss
Eyal Dror. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Israel was being restrained before Hamas was disarmed
Eyal Dror
Ben Ehrenkranz. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
After Michigan, will pro-Israel politics get a ground game?
Ben Ehrenkranz