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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
Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, speaks onstage at the morning session of the organization's annual meeting in Los Angeles, Nov. 6, 2014. Photo by Michael Kovac/WireImage.
Editor-in-Chief
Abe Foxman and the quest for Jewish security
While leading the ADL for three decades, he epitomized many of the best things about the community he defended. But Jewish liberalism’s failures cloud his legacy.
May. 13, 2026
Jonathan S. Tobin
Ballot slips for competing parties are seen at a polling station in Jerusalem as Israelis vote in the March 23, 2021, election. Credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Column
A (Jewish) state of political confusion
Institutional mistrust and mandate-maneuvering are obfuscating Israel’s electoral picture.
May. 10, 2026
Ruthie Blum
Noam Bettan
Column
Sing and fight on, Noam!
The Israeli singer’s Eurovision performance became an act of defiance against anti-Israel hatred, even eliciting support from Iranian dissidents abroad.
May. 13, 2026
Fiamma Nirenstein
Pro-Palestinian Protest in London
Column
The anti-Zionist contagion
Diaspora Jewish leaders should get up off their knees and start fighting it.
May. 7, 2026
Melanie Phillips
An image of East Market Street in Kaifeng in 1910. The synagogue was off to the right of the stores on the right side. The photo is from vol. 2, p. 18 of Chinese Jews (1966) by Bishop William Charles White. Credit: Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Asia
Trump should speak up for China’s beleaguered Jews
One is compelled to ask: What exactly does the Communist Party fear from a few hundred people in the city of Kaifeng?
May 14, 2026
Michael Freund
The Villa Grande historic property in Oslo, which houses the Norwegian Center for Holocaust and Minority Studies. Credit: Leifern/Creative Commons via Wikimedia Commons.
Europe
The erosion of Holocaust memory
Creating a language of “parallel traumas” harms the historical record, and it ultimately flattens moral distinction.
May 13, 2026
Moshe R. Manheim
Opinion
Defund the Soros Hamas insurrection
Daniel Greenfield
Jason Shvili. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Open cries for massacre of Jews and Israel
Jason Shvili
Clifford D. May. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Middle Eastern history in a chickpea shell
Clifford D. May
Moshe Phillips. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Veteran New York Times’ reporter blames Israel for Oct. 7 attacks
Moshe Phillips
Sean Durns
Opinion
The Washington Post’s blood libel
Sean Durns
Shuki Friedman. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
A war for the Jews’ right to live
Shuki Friedman
Douglas Altabef
Opinion
What price ceasefire?
Douglas Altabef
Jerome M. Marcus
Opinion
UN must visit Shifa Hospital
Jerome M. Marcus
Daniel S. Mariaschin. Credit: B’nai B’rith International.
Opinion
Europe abandons the Jews again
Daniel S. Mariaschin
Yisrael Medad
Opinion
The United States decides to harass Israel
Yisrael Medad
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