Jonathan S. Tobin / JNS.org
ARTICLES BY: Jonathan S. Tobin / JNS.org
What to Teach (and Not Teach) Your Children About Israel
JNS.org - As if Jewish educators didn’t have enough problems these days, actor Seth Rogen set off a controversy which, along with giving his new...
Netanyahu Responded to COVID Much Better Than Trump, but Still Faces Challenges
JNS.org - Only a few months ago, the coronavirus pandemic seemed to illustrate the vast differences in management skills between President Donald Trump and Israeli...
Camp David 20 Years Later: The Oslo Delusion
JNS.org - It’s one anniversary that no one is celebrating. Twenty years ago this month, President Bill Clinton welcomed Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and...
Has Erdogan Launched a New Age of Religious Wars?
JNS.org - To understand just how dishonest the discussion about Jerusalem is when conducted in venues where Israel is regarded with hostility, like The New...
Are Jews Obligated to Support Reparations for African-Americans?
JNS.org - When writer Ta-Nehisi Coates made “The Case for Reparations” in The Atlantic in June 2014, few thought his idea had merit or had a...
How Much Antisemitism Is Too Much for an NFL Star?
JNS.org - Imagine if a professional football player used his Instagram account to support the Ku Klux Klan and promote hateful myths attributing horrible crimes...
Antisemitism Gets You Fired at Labour, but Hired by The New York Times
JNS.org - It turns out The New York Times has lower standards when it comes to those who spread antisemitic canards than even Britain’s controversial...
‘Cancel Culture’ Should Include Antisemitism as Well as Racism
JNS.org - In the weeks since the brutal and unjustified killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, America has been undergoing what The...
Jews Should Not Help ‘Tear It All Down’
JNS.org - As long as we’re tearing down monuments and statues to alleged racists, why not trash the antisemites while we’re at it? That’s the attitude...
Whatever Happened to the Emergency Committee for Israel?
JNS.org - Ten years ago, it came in with a bang, but this spring, it disbanded without even a whimper. The Emergency Committee for Israel came...
Is There a Right to In-Person Religious Services During a Pandemic?
JNS.org - Is there a point when attempts by the government to keep us safe go too far? When protesters stormed state capitals in Michigan and...
Israel and Egypt Don’t Need American Peacekeepers in the Sinai
JNS.org - In May 1967, the withdrawal of peacekeepers from the Sinai Peninsula set in motion a series of events that led to war. But...
The Unlearned ‘Nakba’ Lesson About Compromise
JNS.org - Palestinian Arabs continue to learn the wrong history lesson. On May 15, as they do every year, they relive the sorrow of 1948,...
No Need for Hysteria About American Antisemitism
JNS.org - American Jews are more worried about antisemitism than at any time in recent memory. Recent surveys conducted by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and...
