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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
David Shain of Arlington, Va. (left), and Girien Salazar of State College, Pa., hold an American and Israeli flag during a Philos Project October 7th Memorial Rally at the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 7, 2024, one year since Hamas mounted a series of attacks and raids that killed more than 1,200 people in southern Israel, and led to a war in Gaza and conflict across the region. Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images.
Editor-in-Chief
Liberal Jewish insecurity doesn’t come from Israeli policies
Talk of “shared responsibility” with the Jewish state distracts from the real threat to U.S. Jews from leftists who are motivated by Jew-hatred, not Netanyahu and his allies.
October 26, 2026 08:20 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
People participate in a street poll ahead of Israel’s general elections at the Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem, Oct. 15, 2026. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Elections as a democratic Jewish ritual
Israel votes today, reaffirming a 3,000-year-old civilization’s commitment to democracy in the heart of the Middle East.
October 27, 2026 01:29 AM
Fiamma Nirenstein
American photojournalist Heidi Levine receives medical treatment at a hospital in Ramallah after being injured in an attack by extremist Jewish settlers during the annual olive harvest in the village of Abu Falah near Ramallah, Oct. 16, 2026. Photo by Flash90.
Senior Contributor
The war against the Jews in Judea and Samaria
“Settler violence” is a malevolently distorted canard.
October 22, 2026 11:30 AM
Melanie Phillips
Mitchell Bard
Mitchell Bard
Featured Columnist
Ben Cohen. Credit: Courtesy.
Ben Cohen
Featured Columnist
Rabbi Yossy Goldman. Credit: Ricci Goldstein Photography.
Rabbi Yossy Goldman
Featured Columnist
Benjamin Kerstein. Credit: Courtesy.
Benjamin Kerstein
Featured Columnist
Yisrael Medad. Credit: Courtesy.
Yisrael Medad
Featured Columnist
Israeli journalist Amit Segal in Tel Aviv, Sept. 15, 2024. Photo by Yehoshua Yosef/Flash90.
Amit Segal
Guest Columnist
After students in France started protesting in September against national educational issues, mobs of activists joined in rioting, looting, burning and otherwise damaging property in Paris, including at a Chanel boutique in the Le Marais historic district, on Oct. 17, 2026. Credit: Jorge Jaramillo/Creative Commons via Wikimedia Commons.
France
Europe, stop blaming the Jews!
Are leaders across the Western part of the continent letting domestic pressure shape how they treat Israel?
Oct. 26, 2026
Duvi Honig
A campus view of the Technion‒Israel Institute of Technology, in the northern Israeli city of Haifa in 2019. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90,
Education & Technology
Technion starts the new year with AI at the forefront
A new program brought students, faculty, researchers and staff together for workshops, lectures, hackathons and activities designed to accelerate responsible integration.
Oct. 26, 2026
Danny Raz
Amihood Amir. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
The dangers of AI
Amihood Amir
Michael Freund
Opinion
In Mozambique, the synagogue that refused to disappear turns 100
Michael Freund
Jonathan S. Greenwald
Opinion
The enemy among us
Jonathan S. Greenwald
Israeli journalist Amit Segal in Tel Aviv, Sept. 15, 2024. Photo by Yehoshua Yosef/Flash90.
Opinion
Netanyahu’s remark hints at when he might step down
Amit Segal
Joseph Puder. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Houthis have become the most effective Iranian proxy
Joseph Puder
Danny Raz. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Technion starts the new academic year with AI at the forefront
Danny Raz
Duvi Honig. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Europe, stop blaming the Jews!
Duvi Honig
Opinion
How will we remember Oct. 7?
Simmy Allen
Ali Siadatan. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Behind Iran’s Iron Curtain, a quiet Zionism
Ali Siadatan
Rabbi Yaakov Raskin
Opinion
One year after Hurricane Melissa
Rabbi Yaakov Raskin