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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
A convoy of Israel Defense Force tanks heads to the southern Israeli border with Gaza on Oct. 12, 2023. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.
Editor-in-Chief
The real lesson of Oct. 7? Stop appealing for sympathy
After three years of rejection and antisemitism, Jews must cease asking for pity and second-guessing failed efforts at explaining themselves, and instead project strength.
October 5, 2026 09:00 PM
Jonathan S. Tobin
Netanyahu
Senior Contributing Editor
What Bibi knew
Are those accusing Netanyahu of having ignored warnings about the Hamas massacre now demanding a preemptive war against the Palestinian Authority? Of course not.
September 29, 2026 05:20 PM
Ruthie Blum
People visit the Nova music festival memorial site, where hundreds of people were murdered by Hamas terrorists during the Oct. 7 massacre, near Kibbutz Re’im in southern Israel, Oct. 5, 2026. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Oct. 7 isn’t over ...
Three years after the Hamas massacre, the battle has expanded from Israel’s borders to a global campaign against the Jewish state and the Jews.
October 7, 2026 12:30 AM
Fiamma Nirenstein
A passenger from an earlier diverted flydubai flight gives a thumbs-up as she prepares to enter a taxi cab after landing at Israel's Ben-Gurion International Airport on Sept. 30, 2026. Photo by Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images.
Senior Contributor
Those amazing and heroic Israelis
An averted catastrophe in the air shows how the Jewish state chooses life, while Britain and the West are embracing a culture of death.
October 1, 2026 11:30 AM
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
Israeli soldiers from the Oded Brigade attend a ceremony marking the anniversary of the Hamas-led terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, at Kibbutz Malkia in northern Israel, on Oct. 7, 2026. Photo by Ayal Margolin/Flash90.
Defense & Security
Caught by surprise on Oct. 7
And I served as a lieutenant colonel in military intelligence in the Israel Defense Forces.
Oct. 7, 2026
Or Horvitz
Family members visit a memorial for Liraz Assulin, a 38-year-old from Kiryat Malakhi, murdered by a Hamas terrorist during the massacre in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, near the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip, on Oct. 4, 2026. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.
Jewish Thought & Religion
A people who pray in a world unmoored
By the third anniversary of Oct. 7, our community will have completed 919 full readings of the book of Tehillim (Psalms).
Oct. 6, 2026
Eliezer Avraham
Anne Herzberg. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
The U.N.’s anti-Israel blacklist
Anne Herzberg
Clifford D. May. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Who still fights the war on terror?
Clifford D. May
Or Horvitz. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
I was caught by surprise on Oct. 7
Or Horvitz
Richard McDaniel. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Lies and the Holy Land
Richard McDaniel
Nira B. Worcman. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
How unverified claims acquire the authority of news
Nira B. Worcman
Simon Deng, an escaped jihad slave from South Sudan, is accompanied in Israel by Dr. Charles Jacobs (pictured), President of the American Anti-Slavery group.
Opinion
Oct. 7 was a slave raid
Charles Jacobs
Joseph Puder. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Antisemitism in Ireland continues to be unmatched
Joseph Puder
Eliezer Avraham
Opinion
A people who pray in a world unmoored
Eliezer Avraham
Revital Yakin Krakovsky. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
The second hijacking of Oct. 7
Revital Yakin Krakovsky
Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Oct. 7 changed Jewish life in Europe
Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt