By Jonathan S. Tobin (JNS) — The images from the Knesset shocked many around the […]
Category: Op Ed
Mordecai Kaplan wanted Jews to choose Judaism. Why they didn’t was the bane of his life
By Andrew Silow-Carroll (JTA) — Reconstructionist Judaism, wrote the Jewish sociologist Charles Liebman almost 60 […]
Is the anti-Trump resistance also anti-Israel?
By Jonathan S. Tobin (JNS) — You didn’t have to hate Israel to be among […]
Silence is not solidarity: All Jews must speak when Israel strays
By Mick Davis (JTA) — In 2010, I said something I thought was unremarkable — […]
Correction: April 9, 2026
In our last edition, April 2nd Passover edition, The American Israelite inadvertently printed a recipe, […]
The crack-up of the antisemitic right
By Jonathan S. Tobin (JNS) — There is no more prominent antisemite in the United […]
As Columbia’s Hillel director, I know: ‘Is there antisemitism on campus?’ is the wrong question
By Brian S. Cohen (JTA) — As the parent of a high-school junior and someone […]
Stopping Tehran’s apocalyptic goals is more important than thwarting Trump
By Jonathan S. Tobin (JNS) — Two weeks after the start of the U.S.-Israeli offensive […]
Why it’s hard for American Jews to talk about democracy — and why we absolutely must
By Yehuda Kurtzer and Aaron Dorfman (JTA) — At a time when American democracy faces […]
The issue for war opponents is Trump, not Israel or Iran’s regime of terror
By Jonathan S. Tobin (JNS) — Ten days after the beginning of the U.S.-Israeli air […]