Book review

'The Arab Case for Israel': Explaining the conflict between Jews and Arabs - review

The Arab Case for Israel is the book that I would recommend above all others for anyone who sincerely wants to understand the entrenched conflict between Jews and Arabs in Israel.

|ByABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
FEDAYEEN OF the PFLP in mountains east of the Jordan River, early 1969. They carry Soviet and Egyptian weapons.
Itay Ben-Horin’s new book, "Crisis Management: Insider Views of How Business and Political Giants Won or Lost Big, And How You Can Apply the Lessons."

What Bill Clinton, Netanyahu, McDonald’s and Starbucks reveal about crisis leadership

In Crisis Management, one of Israel’s best-known crisis advisers argues that the right response depends on the leader, the moment, and the nerve to act before the room spins out of control.

|ByZVIKA KLEIN
Germans read an antisemitic tabloid on a billboard: 'The Jews are our misfortune.' That was in 1935. The Palestinian Authority still teaches hate and violence toward Jews today, the author writes.

'The Road to October 7': The long centuries of hatred that led to Hamas’s attack - review

This review of The Road to October 7 follows an interview with its author published in the Magazine earlier this month.

|ByNEVILLE TELLER
A GROUP of Hitler Youth, 1933.

'Stay Alive': A personal story of anti-Nazi Germans - review

Ian Buruma’s Stay Alive recounts wartime Berlin through hidden Jews, German resisters, and the ordeal of his own father.

|ByCOLIN SCHINDLER

'Takeover': A look at pre-Nazi Germany's last months of democracy - review

The author takes the reader through these last months of democracy, minute by minute, day by day, blow by blow.

FEBRUARY 23, 2025ByCOLIN SHINDLER
Adolf Hitler speaks in the Lustgarten in Berlin during the Reich presidential election on April 4, 1932.

'Beyond Borders': The story of a fighting Jew - interview

Rudi Haymann highlighted details about the masses of survivors and displaced people not often discussed in the Holocaust.

FEBRUARY 17, 2025ByRAQUEL GUERTZENSTEIN FROHLICH

'Kissing Girls on Shabbat': A frank memoir of a woman's inner turmoil - review

Kissing Girls on Shabbat is a ruthlessly frank memoir of her inner turmoil, trying to live the expected married life with a self-absorbed Gur Hassid.

FEBRUARY 17, 2025ByNEAL GENDLER
An ultra-Orthodox couple are seen walking down the street.

'Books Like Sapphires': A jewel of a collection - review

Brandeis University has just issued Books Like Sapphires, written by Ann Brener, who highlights a selection of the books in the Library of Congress.

FEBRUARY 17, 2025ByMORDECHAI BECK
The interior of the Library of Congress.

‘Rebecca of Ivanhoe’: Alison Bass’s Jewish sequel to Sir Walter Scott’s classic - review

This sequel to Sir Walter Scott’s classic dares to continue a beloved tale and weaves a rich tapestry of intrigue, romance, and personal discovery that stands proudly on its own.

FEBRUARY 16, 2025BySHULA KOPF
‘Rebecca on the Parapet of Torquilstone Castle,’ drawing by George Cruikshank (1837)

'We Are Black Jews': The courageous journey of Ethiopian Jews to Israel - review

Scattered across northern and northwestern Ethiopia in small villages, the Beta Israel lived alongside Christian and Muslim neighbors for over 2,000 years, resisting conversion.

FEBRUARY 16, 2025ByNEVILLE TELLER
An infant from Ethiopia whose family was brought to Israel in Operation Moses receives medical treatment at the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, January 1985.

What happens in Gaza, Israel the day after? Lessons from Soviet Jewry - opinion

“The day after” Gazans can take a page from the once impoverished Jewish survivors.

FEBRUARY 15, 2025ByHAROLD GOLDMEIER
Protests on Aza Street in Jerusalem call for the immediate release of hostages.

IDF spokesperson to show archaeological proof of Jewish indigeneity to Israel in new book

IDF Maj. Doron Spielman summed up his book "When Stones Speak" thusly: The proof that we have pulled out of the ground shows without a doubt that Jews are indigenous to Jerusalem and Israel.

FEBRUARY 14, 2025ByMARION FISCHEL
DORON SPIELMAN guides former US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley on the Pilgrim Road excavation, 2020.

'Netanyahu’s Israel': A look at the best and worst of the longtime prime minister - review

Jotam Confino gives his readers both the best and the worst of the man in a work that throws light into some dark corners and is very well worth the study.

FEBRUARY 2, 2025ByNEVILLE TELLER
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu climbs out of the 'Rahav,' the fifth submarine in the navy's fleet, in 2017

'A Winning Move': Spy thriller weaves personal drama into Yom Kippur War history - review

"A further nail-biting episode follows as the Mossad tries to discover the date on which Sadat’s attack is planned to take place."

FEBRUARY 2, 2025ByNEVILLE TELLER
DAVID RUBINGER’S iconic photo of the IDF paratroopers at the Kotel during the Six Day War in 1967.