Opinion

Points of view from across the Jewish world

Jonathan S. Tobin

Editor-in-Chief

Ruthie Blum

Senior Contributing Editor

Fiamma Nirenstein

Senior Contributing Editor

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

Mali and Liel Yahalomi after being located in Argentina. Credit: Israel Police Spokesperson's Unit.

Senior Contributing Editor

The search that gripped—and duped—a nation

Mali and Liel Yahalomi decided to ditch their lives in Israel. But why did they have to engage the whole concerned country in their deception?

August 16, 2026 05:38 AM

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

Senior Contributor

Gaslighting on steroids

The libels against Israel are all falling apart.

August 13, 2026 02:05 PM

Melanie Phillips

Ben Cohen

Featured Columnist

Amit Segal

Columnist

Benjamin Kerstein

Featured Columnist

Kim Jong-un (center), leader of North Korea, with China's leader Xi Jinping (second from left) and Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) prior to the start of the China Victory Day Parade, Sept. 3, 2025. Credit: www.kremlin.ru/Creative Commons via Wikimedia Commons.

Asia

Kim Jong-un’s European front

Both America and Iran say they are winning the war. But as part of the conversation, they are measuring different realities while Israel lives in the gap.

Aug. 19, 2026

Clifford D. May

Monument marking the site of the original 1969 Woodstock Music and Arts Festival in the town of Bethel, N.Y., June 2016. Credit: Marc Holstein/Creative Commons via Wikimedia Commons.

U.S. History

Woodstock, 57 years later: Days of light and days of darkness

Western leftists entering such a coalition are the junior partners; however, in this particular arrangement, junior partners have a history of being discarded once they’re no longer useful.

Aug. 18, 2026

Deborah Fineblum