Current Events First-Hand and Investigative McJesus: What Was Really Going On? What Should have Happened Instead? January 21, 2019 Sherry Oz No Comments Finnish artist Jani Leinonen could not have asked for better promotion. There has been global media coverage of the protests in Israel in which the Christian community demanded that the…
Current Events First-Hand and Investigative McJesus: Hold Your Horses! January 16, 2019 Sherry Oz No Comments Before you get all bent out of shape, it might be a good idea to check a few things out first. A big fuss was made about a particular sculpture…
Current Events First-Hand and Investigative Margit Kovacs — The Life of a Hungarian Jewish Artist 1902-1977 December 13, 2018 Sherry Oz No Comments Biographies of Hungarian Jewish artists seem to skip over what they were doing and where they were during World War II. In fact, they often skip over the fact that…
Current Events First-Hand and Investigative From the Frying Pan into the Fire: A Haifa Therapist Goes to Nahariya and Ma’alot November 12, 2018 Sherry Oz No Comments Northern Israel was under missile attack in summer 2006. This latest unprecedentedly intense bombardment today of southern Israel triggered memories I had of driving to worse-hit places than Haifa way…
Current Events First-Hand and Investigative Is Hungary Good For Today’s Hungarian Jews? October 27, 2018 Sherry Oz No Comments Unlike Germany, Hungary has not accepted its part in the Holocaust. The official Hungarian position is that the Nazis made them do it when they occupied Hungary in early 1944.…
Current Events First-Hand and Investigative Ouch! The Nation-State Law and the Druze August 24, 2018 Sherry Oz No Comments What do you do when you love your country and feel so woven into its fabric and then the threads begin to unravel? Sitting before Safwan Mreeh in a new…
Current Events First-Hand and Investigative Tripping in Samaria And Talking With Settlers June 28, 2018 Sherry Oz No Comments What would you expect to see on a tour of Samaria? What do you expect settlers to be like? A Very Little Bit of Background Samaria is the ancient name…
Current Events First-Hand and Investigative Terrorism Tourism (Or: What to do near Gaza on a Friday morning.) May 13, 2018 Sherry Oz No Comments “You aren’t really going there, are you?” asked one friend when she heard that I was planning on driving down toward Gaza yesterday morning (11 May 2018) to see for…
Current Events First-Hand and Investigative 60 Minutes On The Steps Outside Of Kiryat Arba April 1, 2018 Sherry Oz No Comments I went to Kiryat Arba for the Passover Seder this year and I want to tell you something about my visit. Kiryat Arba is a town of about 8000 Jews,…
Current Events First-Hand and Investigative Mudar Zahran: Promising Jews A Garden Of Eden December 9, 2017 Sherry Oz No Comments A Jordanian comes along and tells Israelis that Jordan is Palestine and that all our problems will be solved when the whole world recognizes that fact. Everyone will finally get…