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Aug 7, 2022, 12:02 PM

Here we go again. Out-of-context reporting. FYI -- hostilities between Israel and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) did not begin on Friday with Israel's pre-emptive assault, Breaking Dawn. It began on Monday night with the arrest of senior PIJ commander...

May 14, 2021, 2:46 PM

Day 3: Comparisons and Conclusions

A few weeks ago I took my first post-corona trip to Dubai. I thought it was going to be about luxury hotels, infinity pools and shopping. What I found was markedly different. You don't see many Emirates on the...

Jun 11, 2020, 8:02 AM

Out of Context: The Academy, PC, and CrossFit

I would like to respond to a book just published by Professor and Dr. Almog, “Lies of Academia” (my translation), Yedioth Books: 2020. I read a review of it over the weekend, but it wasn’t until an interview with...

Dec 11, 2019, 11:17 PM

My mother died recently. She was buried next to my father and not far from her own parents in one of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in London. The grave of her paternal grandmother - her namesake - can also...

Mar 2, 2017, 2:18 PM

A Propaganda Triumph

Notwithstanding the fact that I was born and raised in England and am culturally biased towards it, I'm almost always hooked on practically any British TV series. They're so much more sophisticated than the American equivalent & the actors...

Oct 5, 2016, 7:02 PM

People of the book

A page from the Talmud, the Oral law of Judaism, August 19, 2007. (photo credit: Mendy Hechtman/FLASH90)

The phrase ‘the People of the Book’ is usually taken to mean the Israelites of the Hebrew Bible, and metaphorically it refers to the most literate nation on earth because of our obsession with learning the Talmud

Nov 25, 2015, 3:12 AM

I live in Ra'anana, a suburb not far from Tel Aviv. I am a lecturer in Jerusalem. I travel to work at least three times a week on highway 443. On one side of this road you can see...

Nov 17, 2015, 4:36 AM

Watch Out For Your Valuables

The Friday attack on Paris did not emerge from a groundswell of socio-economic unease by local Muslims. To the contrary, people who migrate in order to better their situation are interested in survival and invest in their contribution to...

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About Me

Dr. Alison Fisch Katz hails from England. She has lived in Israel for 35 years and is Head of Academic Studies in English at the Azrieli College of Engineering Jerusalem. She holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of Leeds, UK.

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