Jonathan S. Tobin / JNS.org
ARTICLES BY: Jonathan S. Tobin / JNS.org
Why America Can’t Escape the Middle East
JNS.org - The excuses President Donald Trump and his loyal fans continue to put forward for his disastrous decision to give Turkey a green light...
Did We Need Another Sandy Koufax?
JNS.org - The story of Sandy Koufax choosing not to pitch on Yom Kippur is one of the great narrative tales of modern American Jewish...
A State That Threatens Jewish Genocide Isn’t Normal
JNS.org - Gen. Hossein Salami, the commander-in-chief of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), gave a speech last month in which he celebrated Iran’s military...
The Dark Side of Trump’s ‘America First’ Agenda
JNS.org - In retrospect, no one should be shocked by the news that the United States has given the green light to Turkey for a...
Whatever Happened to the Palestinian ‘Diplomatic Tsunami’?
JNS.org - It was only eight years ago that supporters of Israel were trembling at the possibility that support for the Jewish state would soon...
Netanyahu’s Future Cloudy Amid Corruption Charges
JNS.org - This week, a legal proceeding is taking place that may have as much if not more to do with the future of Israel’s...
Can You Forgive Your Political Foes? And Can They Forgive You?
JNS.org - As the year 5780 begins, political division is the predominant theme in both Israel and the United States. In Israel, two attempts to elect...
American Jews Can’t Be Afraid to Show Up on High Holidays
JNS.org - The last thing most American Jews needed was another excuse to skip synagogue. But after the shootings in Pittsburgh and Poway within the...
A Nation Divided About Netanyahu, Not the Peace Process
JNS.org - The answer to who will govern Israel now seems to rest in the hands of a few politicians playing a game of “chicken”...
Take the 5780 Jewish Pundit Quiz
JNS.org - The year 5779 brought tragedy and great sorrow to the Jewish community, as the Pittsburgh and Poway synagogue shootings by white supremacists represented...
Will the Anti-Netanyahu Crowd Like Gantz?
JNS.org - The results of Israel’s second attempt at electing a government in 2019 are like a jigsaw puzzle whose pieces don’t fit. There’s no...
The Netanyahu Era’s Last Chapter Begins
JNS.org - When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu greeted his supporters at Likud Party campaign headquarters on Tuesday evening, his demeanor as much as his...
Does Israel Need a Mutual Defense Pact with the United States?
JNS.org - Maybe it was just one more attempt to help Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu win reelection. But whatever his motivation, President Donald Trump’s...
Critics Deny Jerusalem’s Past and Its Future
JNS.org - Its critics have accused Israel of a lot of terrible things over the course of its 71 years of existence, but The New...
