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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
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From the Editor-in-Chief
Why do American Jews vote for antisemites like El-Sayed?
Politics now plays the role religion used to play in most people’s lives. For many their faith is liberalism and the Democrats, with Jewish peoplehood and Israel discarded.
November 6, 2026 02:44 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
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed testifies at a hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, July 11, 2024. Credit: U.S. Congress/Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Senior Contributing Editor
US midterms and the test of democracy
The growing influence of Muslim and progressive candidates hostile to Israel raises questions about antisemitism and the values underpinning Western democracy.
November 4, 2026 01:53 PM
Fiamma Nirenstein
Democratic senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed speaks onstage after declaring victory in Michigan's Senate race in Detroit on Nov. 4, 2026. Photo by Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images.
Senior Contributor
Not waving but drowning
Momentum in America is with the red-green alliance because centrists lack a moral and intellectual spine.
November 5, 2026 12:29 PM
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
Vance
U.S. Politics
Vance is wrong about why the Republicans lost
The Iran war was worth it to save America from a devastating EMP attack.
Nov. 6, 2026
Jeff Ballabon
Yashar party chairman Gadi Eisenkot alongside members of his party at the party’s election headquarters in Tel Aviv, following the closing of polling stations and the release of exit poll results on Israel’s general election night, Oct. 28, 2026. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.
Israeli Politics
Israel needs a Zionist unity government
Personal grudges against Netanyahu must give way to Israel’s national interests.
Nov. 6, 2026
Joseph Puder
Shane Shmuel. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
The Australian prime minister wants to turn down the temperature
Shane Shmuel
Jeff Ballabon
Opinion
Vance is wrong about why the Republicans lost
Jeff Ballabon
Joseph Puder. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Israel needs a Zionist unity government
Joseph Puder
Mike Evans
Opinion
The midterms won’t change Trump’s commitment to Israel
Mike Evans
Eric Rozenman
Opinion
RFK Jr., Islamist stagnation and El-Sayed
Eric Rozenman
Opinion
The Negev and the Galilee are at stake
Eran Rolls
Opinion
Palestinian terror killed the ‘two-state solution’
Henry Kopel
Opinion
Protecting Jews is a test of democracy
Phyllis Greenberg Heideman
Moshiko Malka. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Israel’s democracy debate must include judicial power
Moshiko Malka
Duvi Honig. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
What was called aid to Israel was also Israel’s aid to America
Duvi Honig