More
EN
Newsletter
More
Newsletter
EN
Support JNS

Opinion

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
Beth Katznelson
Opinion
Who will speak when the last survivors are gone?
Beth Katznelson
Jacques Neriah
Opinion
What’s going on in Southern Lebanon?
Jacques Neriah
Opinion
One of America’s best investments: US military aid to Israel
Micha Danzig
Opinion
Israel’s High Court just shattered the international courts’ false Gaza narrative
Arsen Ostrovsky, John Spencer
Dmitry Salita
Opinion
The multiple fights to weave my identity
Dmitriy Salita
Pinny Arnon. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
The offering of ash, and the optimism to finally break free from Egypt
Pinny Arnon
Tamar Appel
Opinion
Curiosity and empathy, educational lessons from the Passover seder
Tamar Appel
Clifford D. May. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Israel’s second war of independence
Clifford D. May
James Sinkinson. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Western myths about Palestinians vs. what they say and do
James Sinkinson
Farley Weiss. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Democrats and college administrators fail Jewish and pro-Israel communities
Farley Weiss
Load More