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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
Blowing the shofar in the northern Israeli city of Safed, one day before the start of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, Sept. 10, 2026. Photo by David Cohen/Flash90.
Editor-in-Chief
Get out your crystal ball! Take the 5787 Jewish pundit quiz
Join the editor of JNS in guessing what will happen in the New Year.
September 11, 2026 02:00 PM
Jonathan S. Tobin
Labor Party leader Yair Golan following the approval of the merger agreement with the far-left Meretz Party, at a party conference in Tel Aviv, July 12, 2024. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Jingle hell
The score of Yair Golan’s latest campaign clip is music that freed hostage Rom Braslavski’s terrorist captors in Gaza listened to as regularly as they tortured him.
August 21, 2026 10:30 AM
Ruthie Blum
Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor pose with the Special Jury Prize Award for "Naza" at the Winners Photocall during the 83rd Venice International Film Festival at Sala Grande on Sept. 12, 2026, in Venice, Italy. Photo by Stephane Cardinale/Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images.
Senior Contributing Editor
Two screens, one choice: The lie of ‘NAZA’ and the truth of ‘Fauda’
While a libelous Israeli film was rewarded in Venice with a jury prize and a standing ovation, the popular TV series confronts viewers with the truth about Oct. 7.
September 13, 2026 01:43 PM
Fiamma Nirenstein
Ed Miliband, U.K. Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, arriving for a meeting at 10 Downing Street, July 6, 2024. Credit: Simon Dawson/Prime Minister of the United Kingdom via Wikimedia Commons.
Senior Contributor
The ethnic cleansers of Whitehall
Britain’s “as-a-Jew” foreign secretary is a disgrace to his people.
September 10, 2026 01:30 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
Destruction of Cars, Oct. 7, 2023
Terrorism
Genocide accusations in a mirror
Hamas commits mass atrocities and then redirects global rage at Israel.
Sept. 14, 2026
Paul Bachow
Anti-Israel demonstrators raise their hands as witness Kevin Rachlin, Washington director of the Nexus Leadership Project, listens during a House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government hearing on antisemitism on college campuses at the Rayburn House Office Building on May 15, 2024. Photo by Kent Nishimura/Getty Images.
Anti-Israel Bias
Problem with the Nexus Project
A Diaspora Jewish organization is trying to define antisemitism out of existence.
Sept. 14, 2026
Ronn Torossian
Rabbi Steven Burg
Opinion
Michigan Jews don’t need Peter Beinart to explain their fears to them
Rabbi Steven Burg
Jonathan Greenberg. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Holding teachers’ unions accountable
Rabbi Jonathan Greenberg
Ronn Torossian. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
The problem with the Nexus Project
Ronn Torossian
Joseph Milstein. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
The cargo always moves: What Israel understands about political risk
Joseph Milstein
Paul Bachow. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Genocide accusations in a mirror
Paul Bachow
Jason Shvili. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Stop blaming Netanyahu for policies most Israelis support
Jason Shvili
Rabbi Uri Pilichoski. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Time for an educational homecoming
Rabbi Uri Pilichowski
Darcie Grunblatt. Credit: Courtesy.
CAMERA: Eye on the Media
‘Wall Street Journal’ probes extremist Jews’ ideology while ignoring Jew-hatred at Palestinian Islamism core
Darcie Grunblatt
Opinion
One more chance, one more prayer …
Rabbi Areyah Kaltmann
Ben Poser
Opinion
9/11 must become America’s Tisha B’Av
Ben Poser