Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking Will the Real Palestinian Please Stand Up! October 2, 2015 Sherry Oz No Comments Out there, in the world, all the walls were covered with graffiti: ‘Yids, go back to Palestine,’ so we came back to Palestine, and now the worldatlarge shouts at us:…
Random Reflections Reflections on Random Torah Verses Esau versus Jacob: Naming Names and Telling Tales (Genesis 36:1-43) October 2, 2015 Sherry Oz No Comments Why are the generations of descendants of Esau merely listed in these 43 verses with no stories told about any of them? In contrast, in the next parasha, we are…
Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking Israel’s First Step as a Modern Nation: Appeasement! September 29, 2015 Sherry Oz No Comments True to tradition, many leftist Jews in Israel and outside keep clamouring for far-reaching and potentially dangerous Israeli concessions to a so-called Palestinian people whose leaders do not seem genuinely…
Links My Work Elsewhere Coming Home: An Israeli in Sierra Leone September 29, 2015 Sherry Oz No Comments 1 November 2014. I am writing now from Freetown, Sierra Leone, and in two days I will get off the plane at Ben Gurion Airport. Have you bought into the…
Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking Steven Blowers: Why Do I Call Myself a “Christian Zionist”? September 29, 2015 Sherry Oz No Comments In order for you to understand my answer to this question, I need to share a little background. I first went to Israel in 1976. The previous year, I had…
Links My Work Elsewhere Sheri Oz: When a Judge Says She Was Raped September 25, 2015 Sherry Oz No Comments From the article: Allegations of rape seem to bring out all the arm-chair “experts” who talk as if they know the truth about what “really” happened and are not meek…
Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking Healing from Collective Trauma – Identifying The Real Nakba September 23, 2015 Sherry Oz No Comments When the dust settles and a recently invented Palestinian people will have their own state (or not – but we will assume for the moment that such a state will…
Random Reflections Reflections on Random Torah Verses “Chosen” People? Tolerated, Perhaps. (Ha’azinu: Deuteronomy 32: 19-28) September 23, 2015 Sherry Oz No Comments Ha’azinu has put the term, “Chosen People” into a new perspective for me. And I can’t say that I like it. In my previous post, I wrote about the power…
Random Reflections Reflections on Random Torah Verses Power of choice (Ha’azinu: Deuteronomy 32: 19-28) September 22, 2015 Sherry Oz No Comments After having escaped from Egypt, we Jews faced a number of critical points at which our collective decisionmaking skills were challenged. Perhaps the most dramatic example was at Mount Sinai…
By Other Authors Links Bellerose: Indigenous Rights – Learning the Basics September 21, 2015 Sherry Oz No Comments From Ryan Bellerose’s article: If conquerors can become indigenous, then the white Europeans who came to my indigenous lands in North America could now claim to be indigenous. The white…