Tobin’s Take
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...
At synagogues, ‘Trump bump’
Jonathan TobinJun 15, 2017
For many years, every population study has shown that the American synagogue is in trouble. The demographic collapse of non-Orthodox Jewry has affected every aspect of...
Want a path to peace? Trump pounds Abbas
Jonathan TobinJun 08, 2017
The most important incident during President Donald Trump’s visit to the Middle East took place out of view of the international press. At the time, it went unreported...
Taking Trump seriously, but not literally
Jonathan TobinJun 02, 2017
In a seminal piece for the Atlantic last September, journalist Salena Zito explained a simple truth that most people hadn’t grasped about the man who was about to be...
Can Trump’s outside-in formula work?
Jonathan TobinMay 25, 2017
Much of the attention being given to President Donald Trump’s visit to the Middle East has focused on whether his first foreign trip will provide much of a distraction...
