Commentary

Credit: Melnikov Dmitriy/Shutterstock. by Jonathan Tobin (JNS) — For decades, American Jewry has marked Yom Hashoah — Holocaust Remembrance Day — with the same rituals and rhetoric. They heard from survivors, whose numbers continue to dwindle and who bore witness about their horrific experiences. They […]

Civil rights leader Bayard Rustin in 1965. Source: Library of Congress By Irit Tritt (JNS) — In the aftermath of Hamas’s barbaric Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel and the Jewish people, Jewish Americans were dismayed by the response from those they considered allies. Years […]

Editor’s Note: The following piece, an initiative of the Jewish News in London and The Jerusalem Post, is being published simultaneously in Jewish media outlets around the world. “Jews worldwide haven’t been this fearful in living memory” Jewish media outlets worldwide call for combating the surge in antisemitism Two […]

Posters accusing Israel of genocide, such as this one at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, are common in anti-Israel events. Courtesy Southern Jewish Life. by Jay Michaelson (The Forward) — Last week, I argued in these pages that Israel’s military operations in Gaza, however […]

Florida State University By Farley Weiss and Leonard Grunstein (JNS) — A student elected as president of the student senate at Florida State University in June of 2020 has a reported history of derogatory comments towards Jews and Israel. They included social media posts that […]

By Robert French Recently, I and thousands of others from North America and across the globe were woven into the fabric and experience of Israel. For 2023’s General Assembly of the Jewish Federation of North America didn’t take place solely in the halls of Tel […]

By Richard Cravatts (JNS) — Vanderbilt’s Chabad hosted a speaking event on Feb. 23 by Rudy Rochman, who describes himself as a “Jewish and Israel rights activist” who has “the intention,” as Chabad put it, “of creating a productive conversation around the issue of the […]