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Opinions

OP-ED: Stewards of Conscience

By DANNY DANON   (JNS.org) – This week, I will lead a delegation of United Nations ambassadors—unprecedented in scale, drawing representatives from Europe, Latin America, Asia, the Pacific Islands and Africa—on a diplomatic mission to Poland and Israel....

OP-ED: In Europe: The geography of Jewish fear

By SHARON PARDO

(JNS.org) – Since the Hamas-led terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, the geography of Jewish fear in Europe has shifted in uncomfortable ways.

Across Western Europe, loud and sometimes violent antisemitism has surged. Synagogues...

OP-ED: How Louisiana anti-abortionists prevented my daughter from attending my mother’s unveiling

By MARK D. ZIMMERMAN 

The Louisiana Legislature prevented my daughter from attending the unveiling for my mother, her grandmother, Dena Schild Grenell, z”l.

My mom passed away at the age of 94 in September of 2024, and she was buried...

OP-ED: The great lesson of history

By ALAN SMASON

Today being International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the day after the final (dead) October 7 hostage was retrieved and identified by Israeli authorities, there is time for reflection.

It was 29,585 days ago that the Soviet Army...

OP-ED: Opinion Middle East Trump’s unsavory Middle Eastern friends

By JOSEPH PUDER

(JNS.org) – U.S. President Donald Trump has achieved major domestic economic gains, including drastically reducing the number of illegal immigrants entering the United States and bringing energy costs and the inflation rate down.

In 2021, under President...

OP-ED: The Holocaust without the Jews

By RAFAEL MEDOFF

You wouldn’t think Vladimir Putin, the BBC, and the National Education Association have much in common. But in recent weeks, they have demonstrated that they share a peculiar understanding of the Holocaust — one which omits the...

OP-ED: The destroyed library at Jackson’s Beth Israel was a sanctuary for me. I have faith it will be one for all again.

By RABBI LEX ROFEBERG

(JTA) — For two years, Jackson, Mississippi, was my home. It was the first place I lived after college, when I worked as an education fellow at the Goldring/Woldenberg Institute for Southern Jewish Life. The city’s...

OP-ED: The courage of the Iranian people and the silence of the world

By FIAMMA NIRENSTEIN.

(JNS.org) – In the silence—or in the muted tone of solidarity, and in the general inaction save for a few commendable groups, such as those who gathered over the weekend in Rome—there is something deeply sinister going...

OP-ED: American Jewish leaders have given up on a two-state solution. Younger Jews are hanging onto the audacity of hope.

By SHANIE REICHMAN

(JTA) — The year 2026 will be a fateful and challenging time for American Jews and for those of us who support Israel and worry about its future as a secure, Jewish and democratic state, especially with elections...

OP-ED: Trump’s welcome warpath to peace

By RUTHIE BLUM

(JNS.org) – Just when it appeared that President Donald Trump’s most dramatic threat was to the Iranian regime on Friday, he announced on Saturday that U.S. forces had conducted large-scale strikes on Venezuela. Even more jaw-dropping was his confirmation that...