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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
Illustration of Shabbat candle holders, July 17, 2009. Photo by Yaakov Naumi/Flash90.
Column
Shabbat and 250 years of a nation of faith and liberty
The resistance to President Donald Trump’s celebration of the Sabbath in the semiquincentennial is partisan folly and denial of the importance of religion in U.S. history.
May. 15, 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
Blood libel Sandomierz Cathedral
Column
The anti-Jewish fever dream of ‘The New York Times’
We’re living through a throwback to murderous beliefs from before the age of reason.
May. 14, 2026
Melanie Phillips
Epic Fury
Europe
The Iran war exposed Europe’s strategic collapse
The continent today often struggles to defend the very values and security order that American power continues to guarantee.
May 14, 2026
Gabriel Rosenberg
Palestinian Prisoners, Gaza
Israel
Legitimate criticisms of Israel
First and foremost, the only civilized country in the Middle East is far too socialistic.
May 14, 2026
Walter E. Block
Opinion
Beyond vengeance
Harvey E. Bines
Opinion
The myth of Biden’s $10 billion check to Israel
Daniel Greenfield
Jerome M. Marcus
Opinion
Israel must decide what to do with Hamas prisoners
Jerome M. Marcus
Deborah Fineblum
Opinion
An island of unity before the storm
Deborah Fineblum
Opinion
A snapshot of life during wartime
Akiva Gersh
Meron Reuben. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Believing the lies terrorists tell me
Meron Reuben
Ben Cohen. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
‘The Palestinians are not Hamas’
Ben Cohen
Moshe Phillips. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
The confused Jewish left now denounces Oslo Accords
Moshe Phillips
Irwin J. Mansdorf
Opinion
The deadly nature of psychological warfare
Irwin J. Mansdorf
Opinion
What we must do after the catastrophe
Rabbi Joseph S. Gerlitzky
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