Opinion

Don’t ban the burka in Denmark - opinion

Burka bans force the withdrawal of Muslim women from public life rather than helping them.

 PRIME MINISTER Mette Frederiksen takes part in a news conference on the occasion of Denmark taking over the EU presidency earlier this month. Niqabs ‘are used as mechanisms of oppression toward girls,’ she argues.

Open letter to Thomas Friedman: Calls for diplomacy with Iran have poor timing - opinion

 IRANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER Abbas Araghchi speaks at a meeting with foreign ambassadors in Tehran on Saturday. Israel’s most pressing strategic challenge today is Iran, states the writer in his open letter.

Sudan seeks closer ties with Israel - opinion

 SUDAN’S SOVEREIGNTY COUNCIL head, Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, addresses the UN General Assembly last year. In 2020, he met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and they agreed to normalize ties.

Normalizing ties with Syria must not be a blank check - opinion

 SYRIAN PRESIDENT Ahmed al-Sharaa (left) meets with UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan in Abu Dhabi last week. Normalization must reshape Syria, not crown a jihadist as a statesman, says the writer.

The Houthi menace: A result of a Saudi trillion-dollar blunder - opinion

Saudi Arabia's military intervention in Yemen proved to be a strategic catastrophe.

 A VESSEL said to be the Greek-operated, Liberia-flagged ‘Eternity C’ sinks in the Red Sea last week. The Houthis have been transformed into Iran’s most potent and aggressive non-state actor in the Arab world, says the writer.

Israel today is what Iran’s middle class dreams of - opinion

“Israel today is the country that Iran’s middle class dreams of becoming. And today’s Iran is the country that secular Israel fears it could become," Thomas Friedman stated.

 IDF releases footage of the approximately 20 Israel Air Force fighter jets that took part in striking Houthi sites in Yemen, July 7, 2025.

Cloudy with a chance of missiles: A cancer patient's bad diagnosis during war - opinion

If it is my misfortune to have to be hospitalized when missiles from the Middle East come a-calling again, I only hope that by then, my CRE will have resolved.

 IRON DOME near Ashdod fires an intercepting missile.

Iran's new posture on nuclear talks is not a breakthrough - it is a stalling tactic - opinion

Tehran, long adept at delaying diplomacy while advancing its nuclear program, had assumed 2025 would play out like previous rounds. But this time, the Islamic Republic misjudged.

 Middle East Envoy Steve Witkoff attends a meeting in the White House Situation Room on attacking Iranian nuclear facilities, last month. Now there is anticipation over new nuclear talks.

Investing through Israeli eyes: How to win in the current market - opinion

Geopolitical tensions are at the heart of the global agenda and have been increasingly shaping the considerations of investment managers worldwide. 

 New Israeli Shekel banknotes are seen in this picture illustration taken November 9, 2021.

Fiction faster than fact: Time for legacy media to confront its role in antisemitism - editorial

Legacy media has failed to treat antisemitism as a system of prejudice with its own logic and history.

 Hand holding sieve to filter truth from lies, facts from fakes. Concept of media literacy, fake news detection, and critical thinking in digital age (illustrative).

Will the socialist, pro-intifada Mamdani make New York inhospitable for Jews? - opinion

Perhaps Gotham’s Jews should consider donning their vagabond shoes and heading in our direction, away from The City That Never Sleeps.

NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani against backdrop of pro-Palestinian protest in New York. (illustration)

Mental health on the front lines: Israel’s parallel crisis amid war - opinion

It’s time for policymakers to treat mental health with the seriousness it deserves. The health of Israel’s society depends on it.

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With Iran threat gone, it's time to expand Israel's sovereignty - opinion

Now that Israel is in a more secure situation, it can afford to put more thought into growth, and the first steps of that growth should be extending Israeli sovereignty to the West Bank.

 PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a ceremony dedicating a new neighborhood in Kiryat Arba, outside Hebron, in 2020. Now is the time for Israel to extend its sovereignty over Judea and Samaria, the writer maintains.

Education in the US: Ideological battleground or the home of critical thought - opinion

The First Amendment was never intended to shield public employees from accountability to the communities they serve.

THE K-12 Fairness Center of StandWithUs holds a rally outside the National Education Association Representative Assembly in Portland, Oregon earlier this month to support Jewish educators, students, and allies.