Academic & Journalistic Topics Book Reviews Gifts Clifford Sobin: Bringing the evacuated northern communities alive June 16, 2024 Sherry Oz No Comments Clifford Sobin writes: “Every time I head up that steep, twisting road that always takes far longer to navigate than anticipated, I look to my right two-thirds of the way…
Book Reviews Gifts Novels and Non-Academic Nonfiction The Order: A book review — When Jew-hatred is a character in a thriller February 10, 2024 Sherry Oz No Comments The origin of Jew-hatred is a main character in Daniel Silva’s novel, The Order. As I read the book, I imagined that most Christians (believers, that is, not those who…
Academic & Journalistic Topics Book Reviews Gifts Armenian Ceramics in Jerusalem: Take Care Not to Add Fuel to the Anti-Israel Fire September 15, 2021 Sherry Oz No Comments It made me sad to find reason to write a political piece that hones in on small details in a fascinating book telling the life story of David Ohannessian, the…
Academic & Journalistic Topics Book Reviews Gifts Tessler: Is One Sentence Enough to Reject an Entire 900-Page Book? August 12, 2021 Sherry Oz No Comments What chance does truth have when you find something like this in a book that is likely used as a university text? University of Michigan Professor Mark Tessler has an…
Academic & Journalistic Topics Book Reviews Gifts Friedman: Twice-Promised Land? July 13, 2021 Sherry Oz No Comments The myth of a twice-promised land is used (among other things) to question Israel’s legitimacy. Ben Gurion University history professor Isaiah Friedman published a book in the year 2000 tackling…
Academic & Journalistic Topics Book Reviews Gifts Israel Denial: Doing Something Positive to Fight Academic Lies June 27, 2019 Sherry Oz No Comments A new book has just been published. Israel Denial seeks to take the rug out from beneath the feet of scholars pushing vilification of Israel and promoting discrimination against Israeli…
Academic & Journalistic Topics Book Reviews Gifts New Book Contends Well With Old Accusation Against Israel (Without Taking Sides) October 10, 2018 Sherry Oz No Comments Is Israel stealing land from Palestinian Arabs? Martin Blecher, author of the soon-to-be published book, Israeli Settlements: Land Politics beyond the Geneva Convention, suggests that what one asks about an…
Academic & Journalistic Topics Book Reviews Gifts What Justice Demands: Has Trump Read This Book? September 13, 2018 Sherry Oz No Comments I write neither to praise Trump nor to scorn him so please do not jump down my throat. It just seems to me that President Trump has been operating in…
Book Reviews Gifts Exposing A Zionist Hoax: Exposing an Anti-Zionist Hoax July 9, 2018 Sherry Oz No Comments What do you understand when the title of a book criticizing Zionism leaves out the word, Israel and talks about the Palestine conflict as opposed to the Israel-Palestine conflict? Am…
Academic & Journalistic Topics Book Reviews Gifts Industry of Lies: Answer to fake news and fake academia January 14, 2018 Sherry Oz No Comments The subject matter of this book can make your blood boil. But reading it made me smile. First of all, the title is quite unique in our contemporary world: Industry…