Jonathan S. Tobin / JNS.org
ARTICLES BY: Jonathan S. Tobin / JNS.org
On Terror Payments, Use Taylor Force Act to Call the Palestinians’ Bluff
JNS.org - The US Congress is just doing what it always does: pandering to the “Israel Lobby.” That’s how the foreign policy establishment and some on the...
Netanyahu Has No Good Options
JNS.org - The last two weeks were not a good time to be the prime minister of Israel. A series of unfortunate events led Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...
The Argument Is About Jews, Not Metal Detectors
JNS.org – To an objective observer, the crisis that erupted in the aftermath of a bloody terror attack near Jerusalem’s Temple Mount makes no sense. Three Arab...
Inclusion and the Jewish Group That Demonizes Jews
JNS.org – The issue the organized Jewish world has struggled most with in recent years is how to keep communal peace at a time when the...
Waking Up to a World Where Political Allies Hate the Jews
JNS.org - It isn’t easy for some Jewish liberals, but many of them are waking up to a world that doesn’t neatly conform to their existing...
Why Netanyahu Did It: The Brutal Truth on Israel and the Diaspora
JNS.org - Non-Orthodox Jews are angry about the Israeli government’s decision to go back on its word, and reject the idea of a new egalitarian prayer...
Want a Jewish Future? Forget Emotion and Look at the Numbers
JNS.org - In early 2014, I joined a group of Jewish scholars and writers who gathered to ponder the startling statistics contained in the Pew...
Don’t Ask Ivanka to Oppose Religious Freedom
JNS.org - Ivanka Trump is more than just the first daughter. As a key adviser, as well as the wife of Jared Kushner, the president’s...
Who Loses When Synagogues Join the Resistance?
JNS.org - For many years, every population study has shown that the American synagogue is in trouble. The demographic collapse of non-Orthodox Jewry has affected...
Want a Path to Peace? Pound the Table at Abbas
JNS.org - The most important incident during President Donald Trump’s visit to the Middle East took place out of view of the international press. At...
Taking Trump Seriously, But Not Literally, in the Middle East
JNS.org - In a seminal piece for The Atlantic last September, journalist Salena Zito explained a simple truth that most people hadn’t grasped about the...
Can Trump’s Outside-In Formula Work?
JNS.org - Much of the attention being given to President Donald Trump’s visit to the Middle East has focused on whether his first foreign trip will...
The Foolish Embassy Expectation Game
JNS.org - When President Donald Trump heads to the Middle East next week, the world will be primarily watching closely to see if he makes any...
Is Trump Being Played by the Palestinians?
JNS.org - US President Donald Trump’s optimism about Middle East peace might be justified. Perhaps Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas’ pledge that he will be a...
