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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
Former White House Chief of Staff and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel speaks during a conference at Tel Aviv University on July 8, 2026. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.
Editor-in-Chief
Rahm Emanuel and the persistent delusion of failed policies
The veteran politician foolishly thinks that he can carve out a middle ground for 2028 between antisemitism and “blind” support for Israel by recycling the two-state solution.
July 9, 2026 08:45 AM
Jonathan S. Tobin
Israeli doctors perform cardiac catheterizations in an operating room at Hadassah Ein Karem Hospital, in Jerusalem, Jan. 20, 2020. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Israel’s ‘medical malpractice’
The Jewish state keeps saving those who seek its destruction. Take Erdoğan, for example.
July 9, 2026 05:00 AM
Ruthie Blum
U.S. President Donald Trump at a bilateral meeting at the Bestepe Presidential Compound with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, following Trump’s arrival to attend the annual NATO Summit in Ankara, on July 7, 2026. Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images.
Senior Contributing Editor
Turkey is no ally to entrust with the F-35
Ankara’s record—from hosting Hamas to buying Russian missile systems—raises questions about whether it should receive America’s most advanced fighter jet.
July 8, 2026 01:30 PM
Fiamma Nirenstein
Hostage Square in Tel Aviv, Feb. 4, 2026. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.
Senior Contributor
The fateful question for Diaspora Jews
Anti-Zionism, wherever and whenever it appears, is an attack on Judaism itself.
July 2, 2026 01:00 PM
Melanie Phillips
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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
God bless America. Credit: RDNE Stock project/Pexels.
Column
God bless America
No question, we have a fight on our hands here. Yet it is one we enter into armed with hope.
July 3, 2026 09:00 AM
Ben Cohen
A masked member of Hamas in the southern Gaza Strip. Credit: Saeed Mohammed/Flash90.
Opinion
How Hamas is trying to rebuild after 1,000 days of war
Is the terrorist organization quietly recovering?
July 2, 2026 02:00 PM
Amit Segal
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at the second annual JNS International Policy Summit at the Waldorf Astoria in Jerusalem, June 21, 2026. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.
Column
Will the end of Netanyahu boost support for Israel?
Neo-antisemitism ensures that the answer is no.
July 6, 2026 09:30 AM
Benjamin Kerstein
Women and girls block the entrance to Ashdod port in southern Israel during a protest against aid trucks entering the Gaza Strip, Feb. 1, 2024. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.
Israeli Society
The Israeli legal system chooses the law over the people
Prosecuting Tsav 9’s Reut Ben-Haim but not the Kaplanists exhibits a double standard.
July 9, 2026
Amihood Amir
A security officer stands guard at a nearly empty Columbia University campus after police cleared out a Gaza protest tent encampment in New York City on May 6, 2024. Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images.
Campus Antisemitism
Put Jewish campus security where Jewish students are
This is not fundamentally a funding problem. It is an eligibility problem.
July 9, 2026
Rob Derdiger
Paul Miller. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Why I will no longer fight for the LGBTQ community
Paul Miller
Israel Ellis. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
The deal and the doubt: War with Iran is not as it seems
Israel Ellis
Rob Derdiger (cropped)
Opinion
Put Jewish campus security where Jewish students are
Rob Derdiger
Menachem Glik. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Not just selective enforcement: These elections are about the Jewish state
Mendi Glik
Mordechai Traiman.
Opinion
Amid Israel’s Haredi draft debate, one Jerusalem yeshivah charts a different path
Mordechai Traiman
Yitzhak Zivan. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Basic Law: Torah study is the bad product of a bad system
Yitzhak Zivan
Amihood Amir. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
The Israeli legal system chooses the law over the people
Amihood Amir
Harold Rhode
Opinion
Can Islam live in peace with the West?
Harold Rhode
Habtom Ghebrezghiabher. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
America’s retreat is reshaping the Gulf, driving Oman toward Iran
Habtom Ghebrezghiabher
Brigette Herbst. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
The Faster Labor Contracts Act could enable antisemitism
Brigette Herbst