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Book Reviews
- Anne Frank’s World (Anne Frank in the World: 1929-1945)
- The Anti-Semitic BDS War on Celebrities (Artists Under Fire: The BDS War Against Celebrities, Jews, and Israel)
- An Apologist for the Allies (The Myth of Rescue: Why the Democracies Could Not Have Saved More Jews from the Nazis; William Rubinstein)
- Carter’s Calumny (PalestinePeace Not Apartheid; JimmyCarter)
- A Child Learns to Appreciate Yiddish (Too Young for Yiddish; Richard Michelson)
- The Cold War’s Strangest Bedfellows (The Ransom of the Jews: The Story of The Extraordinary Secret Bargain Between Romania and Israel; Radu Ioanid)
- A Comprehensive Jewish Encyclopedia (The JPS Guide to Jewish Tradition; Ronald L. Eisenberg)
- The Dark Side of the UN (The UN Gang: A Memoir of Incompetence, Corruption, Anti-Semitism, and Islamic Extremism at the UN; Pedro A.Sanjuan)
- Dennis Ross was Doomed to Fail (Doomed to Succeed: The U.S.-Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama; Dennis Ross.
- Dershowitz to the Defense of Israel (The Case for Israel; Alan Dershowitz)
- The Development of a Nation (The Hope Fulfilled: The Rise of Modern Israel; Leslie Stein)
- Don't Substitute for the Original Myths & Facts (A Time for Truth; Elliot M. Kramer)
- Explaining Zionism (What Do Zionists Believe?; Colin Shindler)
- The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies (Ivory Towers on Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America; Martin Kramer)
- A Flawed Portrait of Yitzhak Rabin (Soldier of Peace: The Life of Yitzhak Rabin; Dan Kurzman)
- Fun Facts About American Jews (American Jewish Desk Reference; The American Jewish Historical Society)
- For Obama, Israel was ‘No Promised Land’ (A Promised Land, Barack Obama.)
- The Harmonica of Hope (The Harmonica; Tony Johnston)
- An Illuminating Passover Story (The Moriah Haggadah; Avner Moriah)
- An Incomparable Guide to the Lost Jewish Communities (The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life)
- Is Michael Oren An Ally? (Ally; Michael Oren)
- Jewish India (India's Jewish Heritage: Ritual, Art, & Life-Cycle; Shalva Weil)
- The Jewish Influence on American Politics (Jews in American Politics; L. Sandy Maisel and Ira Forman)
- Learning from the State Department's Past (Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964-1968, V. 20, Arab-Israeli Dispute 1967-1968)
- Little Help for Israel (Why Blame Israel? The Facts Behind the Headlines)
- Looking at Terror in a New Light (Germs: Biological Weapons; America's Secret War: Defending the U.S. Homeland; Terrorism and U.S. Foreign Policy)
- Muddling Fact and Fiction (Exile; Richard North Patterson)
- The Oldest Tanakh (The Leningrad Codex: A Facsimile Edition; David Noel Freedman)
- One Man Made a Difference (Black Jews, Jews, and Other Heroes: How Grassroots Activism Led to the Rescue of the Ethiopian Jews; Howard Lenhoff)
- Peace at Any Cost (The Case for Peace: How the Arab-Israeli Conflict Can be Resolved; Alan Dershowitz)
- Philanthropy in Israel (Sources For Funding - The Israel Foundation Directory)
- Pius XII: Saint or Sinner? (Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII; John Cornwell)
- PlacingSettlements in a Vacuum (The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-1977; Gershom Gorenberg)
- ReaderBeware of Messianic Twists (The Ezekial Option; Joel Rosenberg)
- Recipe for Killing Middle East Peace (Negotiating Middle East Peace; Daniel Kurtzer, Scott Lasensky, William Quandt, Shibley Telhami and Steven Spiegel)
- Revisiting the Palestinian Refugee Issue (The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited; Benny Morris)
- Speaking Out on Anti-Semitism (The Wicked Son: Anti-Semitism, Self-Hatred and the Jews; David Mamet)
- AServiceable Middle East Dictionary (Historical Dictionary of the Arab-Israeli Conflic; PR Kumaraswamy)
- Surviving the Angel of Death (Surviving the Angel of Death: The Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz; Eva Mozes Kor and Lisa Rojany Buccieri)
- Walt and Mearsheimer's Lobby Fantasies (The Israel Lobby; Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer)
- The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Full Color (Brave and Desperate; Danny Dor)
- What If America Turned On Its Jews? (The Plot Against America; Philip Roth)
Movie Reviews
- The Answer is on the Inside (Israel Inside: How a Small Nation Makes a Big Difference)
- The Closeted World of Gay Orthodox Jews (Trembling Before G-d)
- The Gatekeepers Speak (The Gatekeepers)
- Golda’s disservice to Golda (Golda)
- The List Is Life (Schindler's List)
- Munich’s Missed Opportunity (Munich)
- Terrorism’s Human Face (Paradise Now)
- UnderstandingIslamism (Obsession: The Threat of Radical Islam)
- TheWest Bank in Song and Dance (West Bank Story)
- Forging Hope (The Counterfeiters - Die Fälscher)
- Dershowitz Defends Israel (The Case for Israel)
- Personal Stories from the Second Lebanon War (Under Fire and Scorched Summer)
Music Reviews
- Avodat Shabbat (Herman Berlinski)
- Di Naye Hagode (Max Helfman)
- Live at Stubbs & Youth (Matisyahu)
- Great Songs of the Yiddish Stage, Volume 2 (Bay Mir Bistu Sheyn)
- The Gates of Justice (Dave Brubeck)