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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
Melanie Phillips
Melanie Phillips
Senior Contributor
Fiamma Nirenstein
Fiamma Nirenstein
Senior Contributor
British novelist Roald Dahl (1916-1990) at home in the United Kingdom, Dec. 10, 1971. Photo by Ronald Dumont/Daily Express/Getty Images.
From the Editor-in-Chief
Asking the wrong questions about antisemitism
As the arts world legitimizes bias against Israel in the post-Oct. 7 world, a hit play about author Roald Dahl’s Jew-hatred explores the intersection of culture and prejudice.
Apr. 21, 2026
Jonathan S. Tobin
Trump
Column
Trump cards
The last thing the U.S. president should want is to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Apr. 19, 2026
Ruthie Blum
Pope Leo XIV performs liturgy at the Patriarchal Church of Saint George in Istanbul, Turkey, as part of a regional trip there and to Lebanon, Nov. 30, 2025. Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images.
Column
An unholy silence
The pope’s genuflection to Islam spells disaster for Western civilization.
Apr. 16, 2026
Melanie Phillips
A demonstrator holding a smoke bomb and an upside-down portrait of Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni takes part in a protest against the Middle East war in Rome, March 28, 2026. Photo by Tiziana Fabi/AFP via Getty Images.
Column
Europe’s moral inversion on Israel
The language used against the Jewish state recasts its defensive war as aggression while ignoring the forces that perpetuate suffering.
Apr. 20, 2026
Fiamma Nirenstein
Man Wearing Kippah, Yarmulke
Diaspora Jewry
The dangerous divide among American Jews
For many, opposition to military action is framed as prudence, focusing almost entirely on the risks of acting—and insufficiently on the risks of not doing so.
Apr. 21, 2026
Michael Berenhaus
Protesters burn images of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during a rally held in solidarity with Iran's uprising, organized by the National Council of Resistance of Iran, on Whitehall in central London on Jan. 11, 2026. Photo by Carlos Jasso/AFP via Getty Images.
Iran War
Iran’s silent collapse beneath the illusion of power
The ruling power has blocked all paths to reform, peaceful transition and the rule of law. It has inflicted such damage that its repair may not be possible even in the next half-century.
Apr. 21, 2026
Erfan Fard
Yisrael Medad
Opinion
Israel’s ‘privileged class’: Its roots and its rot
Yisrael Medad
Opinion
Israeli ‘hegemon’ will make deal-making in the Mideast all the more moral
Dr. Alex Sternberg, David S. Levine
Opinion
They have a manual. We need a movement.
Michael Masters
Raphael Shore
Opinion
Antisemitism harkens all the way back to Moses and Pharaoh
Raphael Shore
Jason Shvili. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
America makes high returns on investment when it comes to Israel military aid
Jason Shvili
Giovanni Giacalone. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Hezbollah crackdown in Europe indicates it’s time for the EU to blacklist it
Giovanni Giacalone
Joseph Puder. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Iran was behind the rushed summit between Trump and Netanyahu
Joseph Puder
Yehoshua Pfeffer
Opinion
Passover emphasizes the communal identity of the Jewish people
Yehoshua Pfeffer
Howard Teich. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Renewing ‘tikkun olam’ in modern times
Howard Teich
Opinion
Might, mercy, a strong hand and a soft heart ... lessons from Passover
Simmy Allen
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