Jonathan S. Tobin
Jonathan S. Tobin is editor in chief of JNS. Follow him on Twitter at: @jonathans_tobin.
John Kerry’s Iran hypocrisy
Former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is back in the news. The once longtime Massachusetts senator is promoting his new memoir and using the book tour to get in as many shots at the...
![Mark Neyman / Government Press Office (Israel) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons](https://jewishwebsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/800px-Flickr_-_Government_Press_Office_GPO_-__Slichot_-324x235.jpg "Can a divided nation learn to forgive?")
Can a divided nation learn to forgive?
In ancient Greece, the Olympic Games was not merely an athletic competition, but a religious ritual that was supposed to mandate a truce in all armed conflicts so the Hellenic world could gather in...
25 years of illusions about Oslo
When the Trump administration announced that it was ending its funding of the United Nations Relief Works Agency (UNRWA) last week, the protests from the foreign-policy establishment were loud and anguished. As a New York...
Where will America’s rabbis lead us this year?
What was American Jewry’s greatest failing in 5778? If your answer is that our communal life hasn’t been sufficiently partisan or focused enough on the latest political controversies in Washington or Jerusalem, then perhaps...
Will Israel suffer for liking Trump?
The last couple of weeks have not been kind to U.S. President Donald Trump. The guilty verdicts that took down his former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, and the plea deal that led his former...
Why we still need heroes like John McCain
Anybody who pays attention to the sorts of things honored by contemporary popular culture knows that stories about heroism are passé. But why then do we still long for them? One example comes from...
Get out your crystal ball! Take the 5779 Jewish pundit quiz
Was 5778 a good year? For Jews around the world, it was the usual mixed bag of bad (and even worse) news.
The U.S. embassy to Israel was finally moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem,...
‘Fauda’ and the two-state scenario
In the international hit Israeli TV series “Fauda,” the head of the Palestinian Authority security service is a fictional character named Abu Maher. Played by Qader Harini, an Arab actor from eastern Jerusalem, Abu...
Immigration, then and now
There’s a lot of competition for the title of “least popular aide” to U.S. President Donald Trump. But Stephen Miller might be at the top of the list. Miller is the architect of Trump’s...
Protect Israel from terrorists, not its critics
When security breaches threaten airports, there’s not much doubt about who is usually called in to deal with the situation. Israel’s prowess in dealing with threats to its borders, and especially its air-transportation system,...