Jonathan S. Tobin
Jonathan S. Tobin is editor in chief of JNS. Follow him on Twitter at: @jonathans_tobin.
The Supreme Court and the mythical road to Weimar
When U.S. President Donald Trump announced his nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday night, opinion quickly divided along partisan lines. That didn’t used to be the way Americans...
Must Jews and Poles keep fighting about the Holocaust?
It’s never wise to get into an argument about the Holocaust with Yad Vashem.
That’s the moral of the story with regard to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s inept attempt to resolve a quarrel with...
Heed the lessons of Natan Sharansky
Natan Sharansky is exiting the center stage of Jewish life. The 70-year-old former Soviet dissident and prisoner of Zion turned author, Israeli politician and, for the last eight years, the head of the Jewish...
What Germans understand about BDS
Who ever thought Germans would have a better grasp of the need to stand up against anti-Semitism than the Scots?
It’s been more than seven decades since the end of World War II, but the...
A judicial litmus test
Americans are more divided today than they have been at any time in living memory. The fault lines in society generally have to do with opinions about U.S. President Donald Trump and his character,...
Another step to the left for Democrats
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez isn’t on her way to Congress because of her hostility to the State of Israel. The upset victory of a Democratic Socialist over one of the highest ranking Democrats in Congress, as...
A tale of two princes
For all of its economic, military and cultural strength that has made it a regional superpower, the State of Israel remains a little insecure. After having its legitimacy denied by so much of the...
Why we needed Charles Krauthammer
Charles Krauthammer would have been an inspirational figure even if he hadn’t become a writer and television commentator. The Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist who died on June 21 at the age of 68 was laid...
An end to the UN’s human-rights farce
U.S. President Donald Trump has been on the receiving end of a lot of criticism for his willingness to flout tradition and engage in needless fights with friends while at the same time ingratiating...
Swimming against the tide? The battle for Camp Ramah
How does a liberal Jewish institution stay faithful to its mission without declaring war on those who would subvert its purpose?
That’s the challenge that Camp Ramah—the Conservative movement of Judaism’s summer camping arm—is facing...