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I helped sell Obama’s Iran deal, and its critics owe us all an explanation - opinion

BY STEVE RABINOWITZ/JTA — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:15:28 GMT

Each promised but failed breakthrough gave way to another promised breakthrough. And now comes the final indignity: the so-called memorandum of understanding.

Visible allyship: Why LGBTQ+ Jews shouldn't have to choose between their identities - opinion

BY GIA ROMANOFF/JTA — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:42:55 GMT

One of the most important lessons I’ve learned from working at JQY is that allyship cannot be assumed. It has to be visible.

When diplomats can’t read the shadows - opinion

BY SHARON PARDO — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:00:00 GMT

Diplomacy begins with language. Yet language is never merely vocabulary. Every language carries its own history, literature, symbols, and collective memory. Words rarely travel alone.

Are Israeli ‘settlements’ illegal? - opinion

BY MOSHE DANN — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:00:00 GMT

The idea of a “two-state solution,” creating another Palestinian state, in addition to Jordan, is not realistic or practical.

The cost of Jewish life is pushing families into debt - opinion

BY SHALOM GOODMAN — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 19:00:00 GMT

The Jewish community needs to have an honest, nationwide conversation about whether Jewish life is worth the cost and how we can fix this issue.

From Trump’s strength to Vance’s retreat: Regime change is the only path to peace - opinion

BY SIAVASH GHOLAMI — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 19:00:00 GMT

The deal with Ghalibaf does not represent a transformation away from the regime. His function is precisely to offer Washington a “rational” interlocutor through whom the system can rebrand itself

Trump’s cabinet may go down as the worst in American history - opinion

BY DOUGLAS BLOOMFIELD — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:00:00 GMT

It doesn’t take much to figure out that Trump's cabinet does not have the best people in the US; not the best conservatives, not the best Trump supporters, not the best MAGA believers.

Israel gave up Gush Katif and got Oct. 7. Why does Trump think Iran will be different? - opinion

BY DUVI HONIG — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:00:00 GMT

America doesn't have to agree with every Israeli assessment. But it should be careful about dismissing the judgment of a nation that has repeatedly tested the very theories now being applied to Iran.

Grapevine, June 24, 2026: Reliving the nightmare - opinion

BY GREER FAY CASHMAN — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 17:49:52 GMT

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

Jew-hatred drove the Montreal violence, even if it didn’t trigger it - opinion

BY GIL TROY — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 17:00:00 GMT

When societies tolerate hatred of Jews and Zionists, they create conditions where political violence can thrive.

Jewish groups should condemn JD Vance’s remarks on Israel - opinion

BY MARTIN OLINER — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:00:00 GMT

What Vance said should still be slammed by every Jewish organization, or he will believe he can get away with his antisemitism.

Newsrooms are not courtrooms: New Yorkers must reject media presumption of Israel's guilt - opinion

BY DARCIE GRUNBLATT — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:54:20 GMT

Genocide is a legal term, and whether a state committed it must be proved in court, not in the newsroom.

Trump, Iran, and the dilemma facing today’s lovers of Zion - opinion

BY MICAH HALPERN — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:00:00 GMT

As Trump pursues an Iran deal, concerns are growing among Israel’s supporters, but the reality could be more complicated.

Europe condemns settlements, but ignores Zionism’s deeper roots - opinion

BY YISRAEL MEDAD — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Zionism is the belief that the Jewish people’s religion and culture, its national soul, cannot be complete without a national territory and is some 4,000 years old.

A house is not a home: The real test of new homes North and South - opinion

BY ELAD KALIMI — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 13:55:25 GMT

Will government ministries and local authorities treat this as a purely engineering project, or as a broader social-national mission?

They build where it’s easy, not where it’s needed: That’s where the housing crisis begins - opinion

BY ILAN LEIBOVITCH — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 11:51:14 GMT

Top-tier planning isn’t just measured by the sheer volume of approved housing units, but by its ability to meet actual demand in high-interest areas, alongside the necessary needs for daily life.

Escalation must cost: Current Switzerland talks leave Iran stronger, Israel exposed - editorial

BY JPOST EDITORIAL — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 06:00:03 GMT

The talks in Switzerland may have calmed markets and lowered the volume for a day. They have not answered the question that matters: Is Iran being forced to retreat or merely being paid to pause?

Beyond advocacy: Why the Jewish Diaspora must stand with Israel, not just for it - opinion

BY ADAM MILSTEIN — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 23:32:04 GMT

In a time of escalating antisemitism, Israel and the Diaspora must operate as one people facing one threat environment

Beyond the Headlines: Fifty years since the Entebbe rescue - opinion

BY SIVAN RAHAV MEIR — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 22:35:29 GMT

A weekly glimpse into the Israel you won’t read about in the news.

Montreal-born MK Illouz: The Montreal I knew is gone, the warning signs are everywhere - opinion

BY DAN ILLOUZ — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 22:12:53 GMT

The State of Israel stands with open arms, ready to embrace any Jew who no longer feels safe in Canada or anywhere else.

Against all odds: Successful education evolving in Israel's unrecognized Bedouin villages - opinion

BY RAAJE ALKAREM — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 22:06:21 GMT

Every morning, when students walk through the doors of our school in Abu Talul, they carry with them the aspirations of their families and their communities.

The Somaliland president’s historic Israel visit - opinion

BY TINA GHAZIMORAD — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 20:00:00 GMT

Why a free Iran completes the Greece-Israel-UAE-India-Somaliland axis.

The headlines we didn’t write: Why the crisis with Trump was lost in translation - opinion

BY RAM LIRAN — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 19:00:00 GMT

The backlash to Trump's ceasefire push reflects a wider crisis: Israel and the West are no longer speaking the same strategic language.

Why mutual assured destruction will not work with Iran - opinion

BY BOAZ GOLANY — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:00:00 GMT

The success of mutual assured destruction during the Cold War does not automatically guarantee its success in every geopolitical context.

Can Israel go from Start-Up Nation to AI State? - opinion

BY AARON KALMAN — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:00:00 GMT

Citizens should ask their candidates running for office a direct question: which of you will mandate, not merely pilot, the use of AI to cut bureaucracy and serve citizens better?

President Trump, we are trying to understand what you want from us - comment

BY ZVIKA KLEIN — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:22:50 GMT

We haven't forgotten what you did for us. We won't, and if we did, history would remind us. You brought our hostages home when most of us had quietly given up believing it could happen.

Meeting today’s urgent need for Jewish community and identity - opinion

BY PAUL BERNSTEIN — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:09:05 GMT

To build a thriving Jewish community after October 7, the challenge is not a lack of resources. It is whether we will direct those resources toward deep and transformative Jewish education.

The Iran peace plan, and what it means for Israel’s upcoming elections - opinion

BY ROBERT CHERRY — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:00:00 GMT

If the opposition coalition is still unable to reach the 61-seat threshold for a governing coalition, it will have to make a painful decision.

Erdogan’s grip on Turkey deepens as NATO gathers in Ankara - opinion

BY NEVILLE TELLER — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Erdogan’s NATO spotlight comes as opposition figures face prosecution, economic turmoil grows, and democracy erodes in Turkey.

Israel’s security cannot hinge on unfinished US-Iran diplomacy - editorial

BY JPOST EDITORIAL — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 05:53:44 GMT

A Hezbollah attack that killed four IDF soldiers underscores the limits of the emerging US-Iran understanding, as Israel continues to face active threats on its northern border.