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...
I guess it must be unavoidable for a Prime Minister to be “damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t”. Shelly Yechimovich plays this to the hilt and she never misses a chance...
Reflections on Random Torah Verses
by Sheri Oz · Published October 23, 2015 · Last modified October 9, 2018
I grew up respecting the laws of kashrut, and have accepted an explanation that says that distinguishing between the animals Jews can eat and those that are forbidden differentiates the human being from the...
The lie about Jews wanting to change the status quo or to harm Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount has been used before to give an excuse to murder us. It was used in...
There have been Jewish terrorists and we definitely treat them differently from how we treat Arab terrorists who seek to kill us all off. I do hope that Jewish terrorists will be given harsher...
Politically and Diplomatically Speaking
by Sheri Oz · Published October 21, 2015 · Last modified January 25, 2020
Rather than buy into the myth of what Jew-haters think you the Palestinian Arab should strive for, you might want to look around and see what you already have and imagine what you can...
Politically and Diplomatically Speaking
by Sheri Oz · Published October 18, 2015 · Last modified October 17, 2015
The Arabs who came to call themselves Palestinians should be thanking their lucky stars that they hitched their wagon to the myth that claims they are a “people”. It is true that they were,...
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