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ARTICLES BY: Jonathan S. Tobin / JNS.org

Why Are Tucker Carlson and Peter Beinart Trying to Help Iran?
JNS.org - As the administration of President Joe Biden tries to find a way to revive Barack Obama’s dangerous 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, we...

Religious Pluralism Won’t Be Achieved in the Courts
JNS.org - Reactions to this week’s Israeli Supreme Court ruling about recognizing the validity of conversions to Judaism by non-Orthodox denominations are all out of...

New York Dems’ BDS Debate Shows the Power of the Woke Left
JNS.org - Most Americans don’t pay much attention to New York City politics. As one of the deepest blue political bastions in the country, the...

Who’s Legitimizing the Vaccine Blood Libel?
JNS.org - Don’t put all the blame on “Saturday Night Live” and Michael Che. One of the show’s head writers and the co-host of its “Weekend...

Israel Needs America, But the Client State Era Is Over
JNS.org - President Joe Biden may have finally called Israel last week after waiting nearly a month since he was sworn in. But the foreign-policy...

Pandemic Holidays Leave Jews Longing for Community
JNS.org - It was exactly one year ago that everyone’s lives changed. It was on the eve of Purim that the first lockdowns were declared...

A Gag About Israel and Vaccines Is More Than a Bad Joke
JNS.org - A comedian telling a bad joke that hurts someone’s feelings isn’t news. Or at least it didn’t use to be. But when the...

Can Biden’s Zeal to Deal Work Better Than ‘Maximum Pressure’
JNS.org - If, as a New York Times headline noted, Israel’s reaction to the news that the United States is ready to start talking with...

The Jewish Debate About Rush Limbaugh
JNS – In this most partisan moment in living memory, everything — including and perhaps most especially — the deaths of famous people, are perceived...

Does America Need a Domestic War on Terror?
JNS.org - When President Joe Biden called “white supremacists … the most dangerous people in America … the greatest threat to terror in America, domestic...

The Issue Is Biden Not Wanting to Help Bibi, Not a Phone Conversation
JNS.org - Most of those debating when President Joe Biden is going to finally pick up the phone and call Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...

The Hollywood Blacklist is Back, and Jewish Liberals Are Fine With It
JNS.org - One of the staples of the Los Angeles entertainment world in the last few decades has been stories that depict the unfairness and...

Don’t Stop the JNF From Doing Its Job
JNS.org - The little blue box is no longer ubiquitous in Jewish households the way it once was. The symbolic pushke into which coins were...

What Is It That Jews Actually Value?
JNS.org –We already knew that the Genesis Prize was not really the “Jewish Nobel Prize” as its public-relations flacks have trained so many journalists to call it. Since...