OP-ED: Weeks and weeks of oaths

May 21, 2026

By ALAN SMASON, Exclusive to the CCJN

Last week I spent the week prior to this holiday week of Shavuot doing work for Scouting America, the organization that, since 1916, has been formally chartered by an act of Congress as...

OP-ED: ‘Rapist dogs?’ Woke journalism’s antisemitic war on Israel crosses a line

May 15, 2026

By JONATHAN S. TOBIN

The pro-Israel community has been complaining about The New York Times since the 1970s. Indeed, anger about the attitude of the so-called “newspaper of record” toward Jews can be traced back to long before that. Above all, the...

The Case of the GreenRope Caper

May 04, 2026

By ALAN SMASON, Exclusive to the CCJN

It reads like a detective novel, but this is the story of how an innocuous Passover holiday greeting message I sent out as a private message triggered a response that brought about the...

OP-ED: We are all capable of hate

May 01, 2026

By KAREN LEHRMAN BLOCH

Those three lines kept running through my head as I watched the extraordinary mini-series, “We Were the Lucky Ones.” For some reason, this show, a Hulu original out...

OP-ED: Colleges cracked down on encampments. But antisemitism on campus hasn’t gone anywhere.

April 24, 2026

By JONATHAN FALK

(JTA) — We were used to a pretty steady stream of calls, texts, and emails reporting things like a swastika on a bathroom floor, a Jewish student being punched or a threat that the kosher dining hall would be shot up. As...

OP-ED: This Yom Haatzmaut, we have to ask: Can Israel endure on human effort alone?

April 22, 2026

By RABBI ELAZAR SYMON

(JTA) — Psalm 127 begins this way: “A Song of Ascents. Of Solomon. Unless God builds the house, those who build it labor in vain.”

It’s an idea that has always stuck with me: Human beings...

OP-ED: The high cost of Yom Hazikaron

April 21, 2026

Today is Yom Hazikaron, Israel’s Memorial Day, a day dedicated to the memory of some 30,000 soldiers, fighters and civilians killed by terrorism.

The largest group being remembered are the more than 24,000 deaths of members of the Israel Defense...

OP-ED: Holocaust education gets a bad rap. But it’s not falling short — we are.

April 15, 2026

By DANIEL GREENE

(JTA) — This Holocaust Remembrance Day marks nearly 81 years since the end of World War II. Few living witnesses remain, whether Holocaust survivors or military veterans.

As we move further in time from the events of...

OP-ED: A month after our synagogue was attacked, the hardest part has been everything that came after

April 10, 2026

By JASON PLOTKIN

(JTA) — It has been a month since March 12 and there is a story unfolding at Temple Israel that most people would not be aware of.

It’s not the headlines or the immediate aftermath — it’s...

OP-ED: Why does this Passover seem different from all other Passovers?

March 22, 2026

By JAMIE GELLER

Every Passover, we ask the same question: Why is this night different from all other nights? This year, for the first time since Oct. 7, the answer is freedom. Real, hard-won and finally ours.

Every living hostage...