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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
Screenshot of the Likud Party campaign video clip, released on the eve of Shavuot, May 21, 2026.
Senior Contributing Editor
Funny, you don’t look like a Bibi supporter!
The left grows ill when it gets a taste of its own medicine. In this case, the culprit is a hilarious clip that’s going viral, inducing incurable pearl-clutching.
May. 24, 2026
Ruthie Blum
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House, Washington, D.C., Sept. 29, 2025. Photo by Avi Ohayon/GPO.
Column
Trump’s Iran gambit leaves Israel with troubling questions
A U.S.-Iran deal may delay Tehran’s nuclear ambitions, but it leaves unresolved the regime’s missile arsenal, regional proxies and long-term intentions.
May. 24, 2026
Fiamma Nirenstein
A sign raised during a demonstration organized by the Campaign Against Antisemitism outside Downing Street in London, marking one week since a car and knife attack on Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation in Manchester, England, which resulted in the deaths of two Jewish men, Oct. 9, 2025. Photo by Chris J. Ratcliffe/AFP via Getty Images.
Senior Contributor
A dangerous dividing line
Diaspora Jews cannot properly be defended if they do not or fail to comprehend the monstrosity of the scapegoating and demonization of Israel.
May. 21, 2026
Melanie Phillips
German citizens read publicly posted pages of Der Stürmer in Worms, 1935. The billboard heading reads: “With the Stürmer against Judah.” The subheading reads: “The Jews are our misfortune.” Credit: German Federal Archives/Creative Commons, Bundesarchiv, Bild 133-075/Unknown/CC-BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
Middle East
New libel: Hatred of the sacred
It tells us less about Jews or Israel than about the moral imagination of those who need Jews to embody the evil they cannot face in themselves.
May 25, 2026
Robert M. Schwartz
Jewish Diaspora
Not a Jew with trembling knees?
The need for vigilance, unity and self-confidence is as old as Jewish history itself.
May 25, 2026
Phillip Jacobs
Opinion
‘Never Again’ must mean exactly that
Joseph Frager
Opinion
It’s time for Jews to say, ‘Sorry, not sorry’
Hillel Fuld
Eric Levine
Opinion
Multilateralism is a tool, not a goal
Eric Levine
Opinion
The New York Times stokes Israel-hate
Cliff Rieders
Opinion
Nothing can justify discrimination against Jews on the Temple Mount
Tom Nisani
Opinion
Barring the door to Zionists means barring the door to Jews
Lori Lowenthal Marcus and Jerome M. Marcus
Opinion
Qatar’s Islamization of the World Cup backfires
Hany Ghoraba
Ayoob Kara
Opinion
Why Iran serves as ‘protector of Armenia’
Ayoob Kara
Douglas Altabef
Opinion
A Start-Up Nation for Zionist causes
Douglas Altabef
Opinion
Showing gratitude to the IDF, the modern-day Maccabees
Rabbi Steven Weil
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