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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
Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed holds a campaign town hall event at the Ionia Theater in Michigan on Oct. 11, 2026. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.
Editor-in-Chief
Is it Islamophobic to connect the dots between Islamists and El-Sayed?
Despite family connections and political stands that point to links between the Michigan Democrat and the Muslim Brotherhood, his supporters are crying foul.
October 16, 2026 05:45 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
Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan helps founding residents unload appliances after they moved into the new community of Ebal on Mount Ebal in Samaria, July 16, 2026. Credit: Roi Hadi.
Senior Contributing Editor
Call it Judea and Samaria
The historic name of this land tells a story not of colonialism, but of history, identity and the struggle for Israel’s survival.
October 14, 2026 05:30 PM
Fiamma Nirenstein
Rubio Greece
Senior Contributor
Rubio’s flawed masterpiece
Judaism, not ancient Greece, is foundational to the moral greatness of the West.
October 15, 2026 12:30 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
The former Congregation Sha'arai Shomayim on Government Street in Mobile, Ala., circa 1910, was used by the Jewish congregation there from 1907 to 1952. Credit: U.S. Library of Congress/Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Diaspora Jewry
Sweet home Alabama: Unlikely Jewish story in the Deep South
The state offered opportunities that drew immigrants, turning into generations who built businesses, cities and civic institutions.
Oct. 16, 2026
Michael Freund
High-voltage tower. Credit: analogicus/Pixabay.
Global Infrastructure
The fatal blind spot of the isolationist right
In the war with Iran, Israel has done more to save America than America has to save Israel.
Oct. 15, 2026
Jeff Ballabon
Farley Weiss. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
What’s needed right now: A clear definition of antisemitism in America
Farley Weiss
Amy Rosenthal. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Anti-Israel campus groups in North Carolina hijack Oct. 7
Amy Rosenthal
Joseph Milstein. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Same insinuations, same Tucker Carlson
Joseph Milstein
Michael Freund
Opinion
Sweet home Alabama: An unlikely Jewish story of the Deep South
Michael Freund
Steve Rosenberg. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Lessons from Squirrel Hill
Steve Rosenberg
Farid Alamdar. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Who will shape Iran’s future after the Islamic Republic?
Farid Alamdar
Jeffrey Levine. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks and ‘Good Society’
Jeffrey Levine
Mike Driquez. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Israel and America must shift to the diplomacy of influence
Mike Driquez
Jeff Ballabon
Opinion
The fatal blind spot of the isolationist right
Jeff Ballabon
Melissa Brodsky. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Who’s teaching America’s children about Palestine?
Melissa Brodsky