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OP-ED: Two screens, one choice: The lie of ‘NAZA’ and the truth of ‘Fauda’

By FIAMMA NIRENSTEIN

(JNS.org) – I was there. And in a sense, I have been inside both films.

The first is “NAZA,” an Israeli movie that won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival and received an astonishing 25-minute...

OP-ED: 9/11 + 25 = AfD

By ALAN SMASON

This week marks the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks by members of Al Queda, the most deadly and most coordinated terrorist attack in our nation’s history. While it’s not necessary to compare numbers, the ignoble number...

OP-ED: Can they talk themselves into being comfortable with J D Vance?

By JONATHAN S. TOBIN

(JNS.org) – The last thing Jewish Republicans want is to find themselves in the same predicament as their Democratic counterparts.

And if it means accepting a less-than-ideal candidate for president in 2028, then that is a pill...

OP-ED: Keeping Israelis Out – The New Antisemitic Boycott Reaches Italy’s Airports

By FIAMMA NIRENSTEIN   (JNS.org)  – There is a pack of fanatics in Italy that wants to take control of airports for the purpose of excluding Israel from international air routes.

They organize protests so that Israeli men, women and children...

OP-ED: Israel is losing America – and Netanyahu is part of the problem

By MITCHELL BARD

(JNS.org) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has refused to accept responsibility for Oct. 7. Now he wants us to believe he has no responsibility for the collapse of American support for Israel. “I think there’s been...

OP-ED: Boy George did what too many entertainment and LGBT people won’t do

By YUVAL DAVID

(JNS.org)  – A British pop star who is not Jewish and has never lived a day of his life in Israel posted a reggae song to social media and closed it out singing in Hebrew. He didn’t clear...

OP-ED: The Genocide Genie

By DANIEL WINSTON

(JNS.org)  – There is an old structure to stories about wishes: You find the lamp, you rub it, the genie emerges, you say the word and the world rearranges itself to give you everything you wanted. The stories...

OP-ED: The Tragic Israel Wedge

By MELANIE PHILLIPS

 (JNS.org)  – Israel has not just become a pathologically unhinged obsession in the Western world. It’s also turning into a wedge issue that’s splitting Diaspora Jews from each other.

Last week, New York City’s Islamist mayor Zohran Mamdani...

OP-ED: As Conservative rabbis, we can’t perform interfaith weddings. But we can bless the Jewish families they create.

By RABBIS PAMELA BARNASH and EMILY BARTON

(JTA) — As Conservative/Masorti rabbis, we see firsthand the joy of couples building a life together in the Jewish community, and the pain of those who feel shut out because one of them...

OP-ED: Why no one worships Odysseus anymore — but Jews still live by the Tanach

By RABBI BENJAMIN RESNICK

(JTA) — The release of filmmaker Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” which brought in $264 million at the box office during its blockbuster opening weekend, has sparked renewed interest in the 3,000-year-old poem on which it is...