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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
Mamdani Passover
From the Editor-in-Chief
How many Jews will attend a Mamdani-style seder?
Most American Jews attend Passover seders. But if, like the antisemitic New York City mayor, they omit mentions of Israel, then they are missing a key element of the Jewish holiday.
Mar. 31, 2026
Jonathan S. Tobin
Israelis enjoy the Tel Aviv beach despite the ongoing missile fire from Iran and Lebanon, March 24, 2026. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.
Column
Israel’s sniveling classes are in the minority
Journalist Netta Seroussi claims that the Jewish state owes her “a long list of apologies.” Social-media followers disagree with a vengeance.
Mar. 29, 2026
Ruthie Blum
Trump
Column
Finish the job, Mr. President!
Mar. 26, 2026
Melanie Phillips
Missile fragments from an Iranian attack on Jerusalem damaged the roof of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and fell near other Old City holy sites, including the Armenian Patriarchate, the Jewish Quarter and the Temple Mount near Al-Aqsa Mosque, according to the Israeli Foreign Ministry. Source: @Israel/X.
Column
Despite the distorted media narrative, Christians thrive in Israel
Coverage of the Cardinal Pizzaballa saga overlooks the reality of religious freedom in the Holy Land.
Mar. 31, 2026
Fiamma Nirenstein
Leader Antanas Sniečkus of the Communist Party of Lithuania initiated the first mass deportations of Lithuanians in June 1941. He died in 1974, at the age of 71, four years after this photo was taken. Credit: Kusurija/Creative Commons via Wikimedia Commons.
Eastern Europe
US Congress exposes Lithuania’s Holocaust fraud
A matter brought to the attention of the House Foreign Affairs Committee is eating away at trust between the governments like a cancer.
Apr. 3, 2026
Grant Gochin
Christians watch a re-enactment of the crucifixion of Jesus during a Good Friday procession in St. Robert Church in Yaba, Lagos, on April 3, 2026. Photo by Olympia De Maismont/AFP via Getty Images.
Africa
Nigeria’s catastrophe: Religious persecution, Islamist violence and the cost of silence
The targeting of Christian communities by Islamist actors doesn’t align neatly with prevailing frameworks of victimhood; as a result, it is too often deprioritized.
Apr. 3, 2026
Yuval David
Yisrael Medad
Opinion
Peter Beinart: Pummeled and purged
Yisrael Medad
Opinion
Antisemitism is a malady
Michael Berenhaus
Ofir Akunis
Opinion
The West faces a choice: Democracy or sharia
Ofir Akunis
Amine Ayoub
Opinion
The quiet conquest: Adaptive Islamism in American institutions and the Texas response
Amine Ayoub
Daniel Rosen
Opinion
Between two blades: The global squeeze on world Jewry
Daniel Rosen
Opinion
Poland’s six years of Nazi defiance
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
Ayoob Kara
Opinion
Why the Muslim Brotherhood is a threat to Israel and Europe
Ayoob Kara
Naya Lekht
Opinion
Three failed strategies of ‘inward advocacy’
Naya Lekht
Alan Newman. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Trump, Mamdani and the need for moral clarity
Alan Newman
Robin Friedman
Opinion
To wear or not to wear Judaica in public: A modern-day dilemma
Robin Friedman
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