Tobin’s Take
Anti-Semitic smear gets another hearing
Jonathan TobinOct 12, 2017
Last month, former CIA officer Valerie Plame crossed a line on social media even the mainstream liberal media couldn’t ignore. Plame gained fame due to her unmasking...
Where’s a cop when you need one?
Jonathan TobinOct 05, 2017
The good news is that it turns out Interpol isn’t the international police agency that movies and television shows have led us to believe. The bad news is that the...
The truth about Gorka, liberal Jews and Israel
Jonathan TobinSep 07, 2017
After what turned out to be a brief stint working as a national security aide to President Donald Trump, Sebastian Gorka unloaded on the group that he considered his...
Dangers from both the right and the left
Jonathan TobinAug 24, 2017
We live in a time when, as the US State Dept. has noted, a “rising tide of anti-Semitism” has swept across the globe. Anti-Semitism has crept into the mainstream...
Want peace? Use Taylor Force, call the bluff
Jonathan TobinAug 10, 2017
As far as they are concerned, the US Congress is just doing what it always does: pandering to the “Israel Lobby.” That’s how the foreign policy establishment and...
No good options for Netanyahu
Jonathan TobinAug 03, 2017
The last two weeks was not a good time to be prime minister of Israel. A series of unfortunate events led Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to make decisions that wound...
The Jewish group that demonizes Jews
Jonathan TobinJul 20, 2017
The issue the organized Jewish world has struggled most with in recent years is how to keep communal peace at a time when the debate over Israel has become increasingly...
Brutal truth about Israel and the Diaspora
Jonathan TobinJul 06, 2017
Non-Orthodox Jews are angry about the Israeli government’s decision to go back on its word about a new egalitarian prayer space at the Western Wall. Prime Minister...
Forget emotion and look at the numbers
Jonathan TobinJun 29, 2017
In early 2014, I joined a group of Jewish scholars and writers who gathered to ponder the startling statistics contained in the Pew Research Center’s recently...
Beating up on Ivanka
Jonathan TobinJun 22, 2017
Ivanka Trump is more than just the First Daughter. As a key adviser as well as the wife of Jared Kushner, the president’s Jewish son-in-law and point man on a host of...
