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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
Yechiel Leiter, Israel's ambassador to the United States, speaks to the media after a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Nada Hamadeh, Lebanon's ambassador to the United States, outside the U.S. State Department in Washington, D.C., April 14, 2026. Photo by Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90.
Editor-in-Chief
Israel’s envoy spoke a hard truth that needed to be said
Groups like J Street and Jews who support New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani aren’t just criticizing Jerusalem. They are assisting a globalized intifada against their own people.
May. 20, 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.
Senior Contributing Editor
Bill Maher deserves praise, not gratitude, for telling 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
New York University in Greenwich Village, adjacent to Washington Square Park, Nov. 29, 2025. Photo by Gary Hershorn/Getty Images.
Campus Antisemitism
A flag becomes a history lesson at NYU’s graduation
Students need to know that using a swastika to make a political argument is not OK.
May 20, 2026
Olga Spiegel
Hundreds of pro-Palestinian students rally at San Francisco State's Malcolm X Plaza on Oct. 25, 2023, three weeks after the Hamas-led massacre of 1,200 people in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Credit: Mariwlqs/Creative Commons via Wikimedia Commons.
Campus Antisemitism
San Francisco State is home to a student group linked to terror organizations
For more than a decade, faculty adviser Rabab Abdulhadi has fostered connections between students and PLO armed factions.
May 20, 2026
Naomi Friedman
Opinion
Why are Jews attacking Andrew Cuomo?
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
Opinion
Lawsuits are key to fighting antisemitism
Phyllis Chesler
Meryl Ain
Opinion
A kidney transplant changed my mind about Orthodox Jews
Meryl Ain
Opinion
Deceit as art
Alexandra Orbuch
Rabbi Yossy Goldman. Credit: Ricci Goldstein Photography.
Opinion
Remembering everywhere, forever
Rabbi Yossy Goldman
Eric Levine
Opinion
The demise of the American-led world order
Eric Levine
Opinion
Honor the principles of Israel’s Declaration of Independence
Yechezkel Moskowitz
Mitchell Bard
Opinion
Democratic poll numbers: Preview of the apocalypse?
Mitchell Bard
Irit Tratt
Opinion
DEI finds a foothold in Jewish schools
Irit Tratt
Opinion
All of Israel are responsible for one another
Ben M. Freeman
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