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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
U.S. Vice President JD Vance speaks to members of the media before boarding Air Force Two at Ben-Gurion International Airport on his way back to Washington, D.C., Oct. 23, 2025. Photo by Nathan Howard/POOL/AFP via Getty Images.
Editor-in-Chief
Can they talk themselves into being comfortable with JD Vance?
GOP Jews want to support their party’s possible 2028 candidate, and he wants their backing. But if he won’t disavow Tucker Carlson and his followers, then they can’t trust him.
September 3, 2026 08:00 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
(From left) Co-Chairwoman of the Bundestag AFD faction Alice Weidel, Ulrich Siegmund, lead candidate of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and Co-Chairman of the Bundestag AFD faction Tino Chrupalla celebrate a first exit poll win to AFD at the Messe trade fair halls following state elections in Saxony-Anhalt on September 6, 2026 in Magdeburg, Germany. Photo by Omer Messinger/Getty Images.
Senior Contributing Editor
Germany’s dangerous erosion of memory
As antisemitism rises on both the right and the left, Germany risks abandoning the lessons and responsibilities imposed on it by history.
September 7, 2026 12:59 PM
Fiamma Nirenstein
Protesters demonstrate at Paris Square in central Jerusalem against attacks by extremist Jewish settlers on Palestinians in the West Bank, Sept. 2, 2026. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Senior Contributor
The new libel to destroy Israel
Violence in the “West Bank” is being malevolently misrepresented.
September 3, 2026 04:15 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
An Orthodox Jewish man tests out a shofar at a store in the Mea She'arim neighborhood of Jerusalem ahead of the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah, on Sept. 15, 2025. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.
Jewish Holidays
The challenge of change
Rosh Hashanah confronts us with the need to perfect ourselves.
Sept. 7, 2026
Leonard Grunstein
"Jews Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur" by Maurycy Gottlieb, 1878. Source: Public Domain/Wikimedia
Jewish Thought & Religion
Remember not to be alone
The High Holiday season is a time when we are most aware of our mortality.
Sept. 4, 2026
Rabbi Cary Kozberg
Richard Kemp
Opinion
Political warfare against Israel, led by Russia and China
Richard Kemp
Dr. Marc Weisman
Opinion
The 9/11 lesson America forgot
Dr. Marc Weisman
Opinion
The challenge of change
Leonard Grunstein
Shay Khatiri. Credit: Courtesy.
CAMERA: Eye on the Media
The missing context from casualties associated with Israeli campaigns in Gaza and Lebanon
Shay Khatiri
Nira B. Worcman. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Not music to Hamas ears
Nira B. Worcman
Jeffrey Levine. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
When the world puts Israel on trial
Jeffrey Levine
David Adler. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
The next Abraham Accords should formalize what has already been built
David Adler
David Levine. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Who ya gonna to believe: Them or your own eyes?
David S. Levine
Israel Ellis. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
A personal encounter with antisemitism
Israel Ellis
Dan Rosen. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
The 360-degree approach to Jewish civic engagement
Daniel Rosen