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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
Melanie Phillips
Opinion
The West’s fifth columnists
Melanie Phillips
Shoshana Bryen
Opinion
Mr. President, statements of support are not enough
Shoshana Bryen
Mark Werner. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
The pogrom is back: What can Diaspora Jews do to respond?
Mark Werner
Opinion
Nazism 2.0
Ron Jager
Opinion
Hamas, Israel and the hypocrisy of Arab and Muslim leaders
Khaled Abu Toameh
Dan Schnur
Opinion
Never again ... again
Dan Schnur
Opinion
The myth that Israel/Netanyahu created/funded Hamas
Daniel Greenfield
Opinion
My unanswered questions in the midst of war
Phyllis Chesler
Rabbi Yossy Goldman. Credit: Ricci Goldstein Photography.
Opinion
‘Leave your ark!’
Rabbi Yossy Goldman
Harold Paul Luks. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Fast-track licenses to get military supplies to Israel
Harold Paul Luks
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