Book Reviews
Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of Lebanon’s Party of God (REVIEW)
Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of Lebanon's Party of God, by Matthew Levitt (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2013). In the Fall of 2002, as the...
Anti-Semitism is Rife Among America’s Far Left (REVIEW)
Antisemitism and the American Far Left, by Stephen H. Norwood (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013). If you've ever wondered why "do-gooder" is a pejorative label, Stephen Norwood's book on "Antisemitism and the American Far...
Letters to President Clinton: Biblical Lessons on Faith and Leadership, by Menachem Genack (REVIEW)
Letters to President Clinton: Biblical Lessons on Faith and Leadership, edited by Rabbi Menachem Genack (OU Press, 2013). In the Book of Numbers, Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp and Joshua is concerned...
Extinguishing the Fires of Anti-Israel Agitation (REVIEW)
"Financing the Flames" is very troubling, but then that's nothing new for an Edwin Black book since all of his works studiously reveal facts and unknown information that shocks and disrupts historical conventions. What is different...
Pop Culture, The White House, and American Jews (REVIEW)
JNS.org - Yehuda Avner's 2010 book "The Prime Ministers" reveals a tradition of voracious...
The Life and Times of Israeli Paratroopers (REVIEW)
JNS.org - Religious Zionism and the kibbutz movement, Israeli author and think-tanker Yossi Klein...
Modern Orthodox Women Struggle With Traditions and Modernity (REVIEW)
JNS.org - Rabbi Norman Lamm once said that when modernity fights with the liberal...
No Joke: Making Jewish Humor by Ruth Wisse (REVIEW)
Count on Ruth Wisse, an interpreter of genius, a Daniel come to judgment, a moral...
‘Crucified Again’ an Important Book About Plight of Middle East Christians (REVIEW)
JNS.org - In an unprecedented wave of violence against Egypt's Coptic Christian community last...
Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of Lebanon’s Party of God (REVIEW)
Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of Lebanon's Party of God, by Matthew Levitt (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2013). In the Fall of 2002, as the Bush...
Anti-Semitism is Rife Among America’s Far Left (REVIEW)
Antisemitism and the American Far Left, by Stephen H. Norwood (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013). If you've ever wondered why "do-gooder" is a pejorative label,...
Letters to President Clinton: Biblical Lessons on Faith and Leadership, by Menachem Genack (REVIEW)
Letters to President Clinton: Biblical Lessons on Faith and Leadership, edited by Rabbi Menachem Genack (OU Press, 2013). In the Book of Numbers, Eldad and...
Extinguishing the Fires of Anti-Israel Agitation (REVIEW)
"Financing the Flames" is very troubling, but then that's nothing new for an Edwin Black book since all of his works studiously reveal facts and...
Pop Culture, The White House, and American Jews (REVIEW)
JNS.org - Yehuda Avner's 2010 book "The Prime Ministers" reveals a tradition of voracious readers among Israel's leaders, whose homes were lined with books...
The Life and Times of Israeli Paratroopers (REVIEW)
JNS.org - Religious Zionism and the kibbutz movement, Israeli author and think-tanker Yossi Klein Halevi recently told me, are "the two messianic streams within...
Modern Orthodox Women Struggle With Traditions and Modernity (REVIEW)
JNS.org - Rabbi Norman Lamm once said that when modernity fights with the liberal movements in Judaism, it is not a fair fight because...
No Joke: Making Jewish Humor by Ruth Wisse (REVIEW)
Count on Ruth Wisse, an interpreter of genius, a Daniel come to judgment, a moral voice such as the parsimonious invisible powers bestow on us...
‘Crucified Again’ an Important Book About Plight of Middle East Christians (REVIEW)
JNS.org - In an unprecedented wave of violence against Egypt's Coptic Christian community last month, Islamic terrorists targeted several dozen churches, schools, businesses and...
The Last Israelis, by Noah Beck (REVIEW)
The Last Israelis, by Noah Beck (CreateSpace Independent Publishing, 2013), 270 pages. After constant exposure to critically important news, it begins to lose all meaning and...
Book Sounds Alarm on Modern Anti-Israelism and Anti-Semitism (REVIEW)
JNS.org - An assault on reason is taking place. As the world impatiently seeks a just resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, hearts and minds...
New Book Profiles Jewish Nazi Hunter Who Aided Capture of Auschwitz Commander Rudolph Höss
A new book, recently published, profiles a little known yet instrumental figure in the capture of notorious Nazi, head of the Auschwitz concentration camp, commander Rudolph...
Book: American Jews Are Endangered Species
JNS.org - Let the general reader be warned: Shaul Magid's new book, "American Post-Judaism," is not easy to read. The writing is dense, and the...
Father’s Book Offers Insight into Netanyahu’s Worldview
JNS.org - Although the late Benzion Netanyahu wrote four of the five essays in "The Founding Fathers of Zionism" years before his middle son Benjamin Netanyahu was...
