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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
Israel Prison Service officers prepare Palestinian prisoners for release as part of a hostage deal between Israel and Hamas, at Ktzi’ot Prison in southern Israel, Feb. 26, 2025. File photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.
Editor-in-Chief
The four reasons why we can’t move on from a blood libel
“The New York Times” and its enablers are counting on the public’s short attention span and “suicidal empathy” of liberal Jews to bury Nicholas Kristof’s lie about rapist dogs in Israel.
May. 19, 2026
Jonathan S. Tobin
Comedian and television talk-show host Bill Maher attends the 2026 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Mark Guiducci at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in California, March 15, 2026. Photo by Lionel Hahn/Getty Images.
Column
Bill Maher deserves praise, not gratitude, for telling the truth about Israel
Jews shouldn’t need to treat intellectual honesty as heroism. Nor does it behoove us to grab any morsel of sympathy with the hunger of a hostage.
May. 18, 2026
Ruthie Blum
“The New York Times”
Column
‘New York Times’ and the oldest blood libel
When facts collapse, a darker myth emerges.
May. 16, 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
A poster in Melbourne, Australia, shows Naveed Akram, the 24-year-old shooting suspect in the Dec. 14, 2025 Chanukah massacre on Bondi Beach, February 2026. Credit: Courtesy of the Combat Antisemitism Movement.
Diaspora Jewry
ADL statistics: Not good news
The question about hatred of Jews is one about surrounding society. It is a civilizational problem.
May 19, 2026
Rabbi David Wolpe
Arafat
Defense and Security
Israel’s old policy for a new generation of terrorists
A ceasefire may pause large-scale combat, but it does not erase responsibility.
May 19, 2026
Stephen M. Flatow
Steve Rosenberg
Opinion
Independence Day: A tale of two nations
Steve Rosenberg
Dan Schnur
Opinion
The Saudi two-step
Dan Schnur
Melanie Phillips
Opinion
Israel’s American ‘frenemy’
Melanie Phillips
Abigail R. Esman
Opinion
Does the jihadist threat still exist?
Abigail R. Esman
Michael Segall
Opinion
Khamenei pushes to arm Palestinians in Judea and Samaria
Michael Segall
Opinion
BDS ‘delocalizes’ the Palestinian cause
Irina Tsukerman
Rabbi Yossy Goldman. Credit: Ricci Goldstein Photography.
Opinion
Arguments for the sake of heaven?
Rabbi Yossy Goldman
Mitchell Bard
Opinion
The antisemitic BDS war on celebrities
Mitchell Bard
Jacob Nagel
Opinion
Israel must oppose US-Iran ‘understandings’
Jacob Nagel
Opinion
Mr. Netanyahu, take the offensive
Ariel Kahana
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