Reflections on Random Torah Verses
by Sheri Oz · Published November 13, 2015 · Last modified January 9, 2019
In last week’s blog, I discussed interpersonal aspects of having refuge cities to which unintentional perpetrators of manslaughter could run for protection. In this post I will reflect on the intrapersonal, inspired by a...
About four days before the first bombs fell, I had the impulse to write down how I was feeling. Writing was always a tool I used for dealing with my emotions and for understanding...
Reflections on Random Torah Verses
by Sheri Oz · Published November 5, 2015 · Last modified January 9, 2019
Torah Judaism is not far from Judaism’s tribal roots and Deuteronomy 4:41-49 shows this up quite clearly. This verse talks about three refuge towns on the east side of the Jordan River, Bezer (for...
After having proven, in an earlier study, that Ashkenazi and non-Ashkenazi Jews share Middle Eastern origins, a group of 7 Spanish researchers exchanged the Israeli scientist in the previous study team for 2 Palestinian...
The Khazar theory refuses to die and every once in a while pro-(so-called)-Palestinians raise the issue in an attempt to diminish Ashkenazi Jewish claims to be returning home to Zion. If the Caucus region...
Politically and Diplomatically Speaking
by Sheri Oz · Published October 30, 2015 · Last modified June 26, 2016
Just two days ago Professor of Islamic History, Yusri Ahmad Zidan, was interviewed by Dr. Muhammed Khaled on Egyptian TV and the subtitled tape released today (the original tape was deleted by Egypt TV...
This passage, the last part of Parashat Va’ethannan, bothered me and I struggled with the implications of taking the words literally. These lines relate to how following the commandments (mitzvot in Hebrew) will ensure...
Politically and Diplomatically Speaking
by Sheri Oz · Published October 27, 2015 · Last modified October 29, 2015
There are several examples of former enemy countries reconciling and cases of former victims and perpetrators reconciling. In the case of Canada and Australia, the process for trying to right centuries’ old wrongs to...
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