Gifts Special Gift Guides Hanukkah Gifts: Wrapping Paper, Gift Bags and Boxes October 13, 2017 Sherry Oz No Comments Whether you spell it Hanukkah, Hanuka, or Channukah, the Festival of Lights is nearing. And we know that Hanukkah is an opportunity to have parties, fun parties for kids or…
Current Events Keeping Up With Our MKs Israeli MK Ayman Odeh Asks For Unity In Israel October 5, 2017 Sherry Oz No Comments Does Israeli Member of Knesset Ayman Odeh talk out one side of his mouth in Arabic and the other side of his mouth in Hebrew? He put up a special…
Current Events From Academia Does Israel Miss The British Mandate? We Might Just. October 3, 2017 Sherry Oz No Comments Seems we Israelis, or some of us, may have been nostalgic for the British Mandate period for — well, for ever-since-the-Brits-got-on-their-boats-and-shipped-back-to-the-UK. Professor Eitan Bar-Yosef of Ben Gurion University says we…
Current Events From Academia The Radical Radicle: Online Student Journal Joins ‘Fake Academia’ September 18, 2017 Sherry Oz No Comments Rasmea Odeh is unfairly maligned, according to a paper showcased on Reed College’s online journal. Fake academia at its best! This critique was prepared in honour of Odeh’s deportation from…
Current Events First-Hand and Investigative “Cute” Little Kid Throwing Stones September 17, 2017 Sherry Oz No Comments I started visiting Hebron last winter. The first time I went was with (the far Left) Green Olive Tours. As we drove through the Arab district on our way to…
Random Reflections Reflections on Random Torah Verses Contradiction In Ki Tisa: Stiff-Necked Appeasers September 14, 2017 Sherry Oz No Comments We were supposed to be dead. If the Holocaust did not finish us off, the Arabs should have done us in. But we won war after war, each of which…
Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking What Made ‘Times of Israel’ Change Article Title? September 7, 2017 Sherry Oz No Comments Some readers and media analysts must have become really touchy lately — to the point that Times of Israel (TOI) changed the title to their article about a teacher who…
Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking Palestinian Authority Arrests Human Rights Activist – Must Be Israel’s Fault! September 7, 2017 Sherry Oz No Comments Amnesty International, not a friend of Israel by any means, reported clearly and simply on the arrest of Issa Amro of Hebron. Then along come other news websites that embellish…
Current Events From Academia UNGA Recognition of “Palestine”: Does It Matter? August 31, 2017 Sherry Oz No Comments I am guilty of trying to convince myself that United Nations General Assembly acceptance of “Palestine” as a nonmember observer state is of no real consequence. And of trying to…
Current Events From Academia Academic Lies! And This Passes For Scholarship! August 24, 2017 Sherry Oz No Comments In critiquing an academic paper that was published in the journal, International Relations and Diplomacy, I found a blatant lie that made my blood boil. In another post critiquing this…