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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
Somaliland’s first ambassador to Israel, Mohamed Hagi, during a ceremony at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem, May 18, 2026. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Horn of Africa
Ambassador’s arrival in Israel shocks the Egypt-Eritrea axis against Somaliland
The self-governing state has become part of a broader geopolitical struggle over Red Sea alignment, tied to Jerusalem’s expanding engagement in the Horn of Africa.
May 21, 2026
Habtom Ghebrezghiabher
Opinion
A new film details the collapse of belief in America
Phyllis Chesler
Shmuel Katz. Credit Courtesy.
Opinion
The insanity of self-destruction
Shmuel Katz
Opinion
Israeli officials’ first stop should be Nassau County
Joseph Frager
Rabbi Uri Pilichoski. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
The day I lost control
Rabbi Uri Pilichowski
Jacob Nagel
Opinion
Iran is pushing Israel towards a multi-theater conflagration
Jacob Nagel
Clifford D. May. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Lessons of the energy crisis
Clifford D. May
Dr. Eric R. Mandel
Opinion
The future of the US-Israel relationship
Dr. Eric R. Mandel
William C. Daroff. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Confronting the darkness of antisemitism
William C. Daroff
Nathan Lewin
Opinion
Yale respects the traditional values of Muslims but not Jews
Nathan Lewin
Stephen M. Flatow. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Biden’s ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy regarding terror
Stephen M. Flatow
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