Opinion

Leaving Hamas in power would be a cowardly betrayal of the Israeli people - opinion

As the Israel-Hamas war drags on, those who have sacrificed in the Israel-Hamas War are growing increasingly frustrated with Israeli and US officials.

IDF operating in the Gaza Strip on September 19, 2025.
Mrs. Nechama Shemtov

Rosh Hashana thought: Construction and clarity - opinion

A billboard in Times Square displays the message "Israel is committing genocide" as part of the campaign by Game Over Israel calling for a boycott of Israel by national soccer federations over the war in Gaza, in New York City, U.S., September 16, 2025.

From Streicher to the 'genocide experts': Why Israel must start fighting defamation - opinion

 Letters

Letters to the Editor, September 15, 2025: The legal consequences


Representing Israel abroad has never been harder - opinion

As Israel’s war drags on, Diaspora Jews are left grappling with division, rising hostility, and silence on the hostages. Clarity has never been more urgent.

 Pro-Palestine protesters join members of the Teamsters union, whose rail workers are in a labor dispute with Canada’s two top railway companies, as they protest outside of a Liberal Party of Canada fundraiser in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, August 27, 2024.

Why Smotrich’s 82% sovereignty plan over the West Bank is not enough - opinion

The fact of the matter is that unless all the Arabs occupying the territories are expelled, say, to Syria, their threat to our people will remain.

IDF operates in West Bank, September 9, 2025.

The strength of women in the capital market - opinion

Excluding women holds back innovation and costs the economy

THE WRITER addresses a Maof-Tech gathering at the Technion in Haifa.

No Jewish child’s mind left behind: Rethinking Jewish education - opinion

Because the point is not merely to float. The point is to soar.

WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS President Ronald Lauder speaks at the Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism in Jerusalem in 2017. Organizations such as the Lauder Foundation have begun to shift Jewish education priorities, says the writer.

Zionism, anti-Zionism, antisemitism, and Jew-hatred - opinion

Why we need an essential guide

DAVID BEN-GURION declares Israel a state on May 14, 1948. Says the writer: ‘For years, I refused to be a post-Holocaust Jew. Now, I don’t want October 7 Jews. Let’s be 1948 Jews – or 3,500-year-old Jews!’

Paradise brokers: Hamas fights for power built on a mountain of corpses - opinion

The people of the region deserve life, while Hamas and its leaders deserve nothing more than to be left alone to embrace the death they so adore.

SENIOR HAMAS official Izzat el-Reshiq sits at his desk in Doha earlier this year. The same Hamas leaders who glorify death do not offer their own children and families to the same slaughter, the writer charges.

What evil looks like: Why Trump must fight Cuban tyranny - opinion

I write these words not as a writer but as someone who has felt the cold hand of Cuban repression firsthand. I know what that evil looks like.

CUBAN PRESIDENT Miguel Díaz-Canel (center) and Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz (right) raise their fists at a march at which Israel was accused of committing genocide in Gaza, in Havana, last year.

Jew-hatred is not acceptable: Time to recruit others to fight antisemitism - opinion

It is time to repel Jew hatred. It is time to recruit others to join our cause. If not now – when?

DEMONSTRATORS STAND near the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, at an event titled: ‘Together against left-wing, right-wing, and Islamist antisemitism  – solidarity with Israel,’ in Berlin last year.

There is no ‘crime of Torah study’: Haredi lies about draft dodger arrests - opinion

When haredi leaders and media outlets resort to hyperbole or even deliberate falsehoods, it undermines, rather than advances, meaningful progress in this vital national conversation.

POLICE CONFRONT haredi demonstrators to stop them from blocking a road amid a protest against the jailing of yeshiva students who had failed to comply with an army recruitment order, at Beit Lid junction last month.

How Netanyahu should defend Israel at the UN General Assembly - opinion

His defense of Israel from the august podium will be a formidable task.

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the annual UN General Assembly high-level debate last year. His defense of Israel this year will be a formidable task, says the writer.

Dreams, passions, risks, mistakes: Lessons from a long life - opinion

We have only one life to live. Let’s try to leave the world better than we found it. 

MONICA SELES on the tennis court.