Jonathan S. Tobin

New York, Philadelphia

Editor-in-Chief, Jewish News Syndicate at JNS

My daughter's father. Editor in Chief @JNS_org, Host of Top Story With Jonathan Tobin podcast, Senior Contributor @FDRLST. Columnist @Newsweek, others.

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Articles

Send Barstool haters to Israel, not Auschwitz - The Jewish Star

1 day ago | thejewishstar.com | Jonathan S. Tobin

An incident at a bar owned by celebrity influencer Dave Portnoy says everything you need to know about contemporary antisemitism and the clueless responses to it.” An incident involving college students at a bar owned by a celebrity best known for sports betting and reviewing pizza isn’t the sort of thing expected to go down as a pivotal moment in the history of antisemitism and the Jewish world’s responses to the hatred directed at it. But the viral story about a sign featured an expletive...
The pope’s ‘divisions’ and the war against the Jews

1 day ago | jns.org | Jonathan S. Tobin

(May 13, 2025 / JNS)In an era when religion seems to be in steep decline throughout Europe and North America, it might strike some people as curious that the election of a new pope would be treated as such an earth-shaking event.
John Fetterman’s health and how to read the mainstream media

1 day ago | jewishchronicle.timesofisrael.com | Jonathan S. Tobin

(JNS) In the fall of 2022, the left-leaning mainstream media did almost everything they could to help the flagging senatorial candidacy of John Fetterman. Nearly three years later, liberal corporate outlets seem to be intent on destroying him with reports claiming to detail his aberrant behavior, questionable health and devastating comments from former staffers, and even from his wife, Gisele Barreto Fetterman. What’s behind the change in their attitude?
John Fetterman’s health and how to read the mainstream media

2 days ago | jns.org | Jonathan S. Tobin

(May 12, 2025 / JNS)In the fall of 2022, the left-leaning mainstream media did almost everything they could to help the flagging senatorial candidacy of John Fetterman. Nearly three years later, liberal corporate outlets seem to be intent on destroying him with reports claiming to detail his aberrant behavior, questionable health and devastating comments from former staffers, and even from his wife, Gisele Barreto Fetterman. What’s behind the change in their attitude?
Choosing sides in the battle over fighting antisemitism

5 days ago | jns.org | Jonathan S. Tobin

(May 9, 2025 / JNS)The latest round of congressional hearings about antisemitism on college campuses that took place this week showed that some academic leaders still haven’t gotten the message that the era of woke leftist discrimination against Jews has got to end.
Antisemites still proving why we need Israel

6 days ago | clevelandjewishnews.com | Jonathan S. Tobin

Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israel’s Independence Day, is less of a nationwide party than usual this year. That was probably already a given for a nation still engaged in a war for its survival that began with the Hamas-led terrorist attacks on communities in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
Debunking the myth of the Israel lobby

6 days ago | jns.org | Jonathan S. Tobin

(May 8, 2025 / JNS)Israel’s detractors have always alleged that American support for the Jewish state is based on two factors: politicized sympathy for the Jews and the purchase of congressional backing by an all-powerful “Israel lobby.” But according to JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin, both assertions are myths that are themselves the product of partisan propaganda rather than objective analysis. He’s joined in this week’s episode of “Think Twice” by Ronald Reagan Institute scholar Daniel J.
Media lies about fake martyrs and famines fuel antisemitism

1 week ago | clevelandjewishnews.com | Jonathan S. Tobin

The unprecedented surge of antisemitism throughout the United States since the Hamas-led Palestinian terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, has created a new reality for American Jews, especially Jewish students on college campuses. But perhaps the most sinister aspect of what has unfolded in the last 19 months is not just the way elite universities were transformed into hostile environments for Jews.
Antisemites are still proving why we need Israel - The Jewish Star

1 week ago | thejewishstar.com | Jonathan S. Tobin

Zionism is the greatest and most successful anti-colonial movement in history.” Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israel’s Independence Day, is less of a nationwide party than usual this year. That was probably already a given for a nation still engaged in a war for its survival that began with the Hamas-led terrorist attacks on communities in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. But having visited the sites of the brutal massacres that took place that day on the eve of Yom Hazikaron, Israel’s Memorial Day, which...
Media lies about fake martyrs and famines fuel antisemitism

1 week ago | jns.org | Jonathan S. Tobin

(May 7, 2025 / JNS)The unprecedented surge of antisemitism throughout the United States since the Hamas-led Palestinian terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, has created a new reality for American Jews, especially Jewish students on college campuses. But perhaps the most sinister aspect of what has unfolded in the last 19 months is not just the way elite universities were transformed into hostile environments for Jews.