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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
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee speaks at a ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks at the 9/11 Living Memorial in Jerusalem, Sept. 9, 2026. Photo by Sharon Altshul.
Senior Contributing Editor
From 9/11 to Oct. 7: The West still refuses to understand
Twenty-five years after the deadliest terror attack in American history, the ideology that drives Islamist terrorism remains dangerously misunderstood.
September 11, 2026 01:15 AM
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
Basketball in the hoop. Credit: daschorsch/Pixabay.
Rosh Hashanah
One more chance, one more prayer, one last shot …
The Jewish people are never entitled to declare that the story is over.
Sept. 11, 2026
Rabbi Areyah Kaltmann
An NYPD officer places a poster board honoring the lives of NYPD officers during a wreath-laying ceremony ahead of the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, in New York City on Sept. 8, 2026. Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images.
Domestic Terrorism
9/11 must become America’s Tisha B’Av
America cannot defeat its enemies and renew its national vigor if it places no value upon sacred memory.
Sept. 11, 2026
Ben Poser
Opinion
One more chance, one more prayer …
Rabbi Areyah Kaltmann
Ben Poser
Opinion
9/11 must become America’s Tisha B’Av
Ben Poser
Robin Lemberg. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Jewish advertising is broken
Robin Lemberg
Yedidia Stern. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Israel’s Declaration of Independence: A secular sacred text, not a legal weapon
Yedidia Stern
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
In DC on Sept. 11, fighting another jihad
Charles Jacobs
Israeli journalist Amit Segal in Tel Aviv, Sept. 15, 2024. Photo by Yehoshua Yosef/Flash90.
Guest Contributor
‘The most crucial election in Israel’s history’? Just asking …
Amit Segal
Jonathan S. Greenwald
Opinion
Between two anniversaries
Jonathan S. Greenwald
Phyllis Chesler. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
9/11: Our emergency number
Phyllis Chesler
Joe Mintz. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
DEI seeped into the faculties of education, corrupting basic Western values
Joe Mintz
Yehuda Kaploun. Credit: Official Photo/U.S State Department.
Opinion
A case for optimism this New Year
Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun