Israel, A Concise History of a Nation Reborn, by Daniel Gordis is an absolute must-read. The story of a nation, and land, reborn, begins in Europe in the 1800’s, with the early Zionist movement founders and leaders. Israel takes us from those early days to...
Like Dreamers, by Yossi Klein Halevi, is described in the subtitle as “The story of the Israeli paratroopers who reunited Jerusalem and divided a nation.” When I finished the book, I remarked to my husband that “this is one of the greatest books I have ever...
Shadow Strike, by Yaakov Katz (2019, St. Martin’s Press), is the riveting, fascinating, newly-released must-read account of the 2007 bombing of the Syrian nuclear reactor by Israel. Under the cover of total secrecy, and unknown to the world, Syria had almost achieved a fully functioning...
The Escape Artists, by Neal Bascomb, is the fascinating story of British POW’s imprisoned in German camps during WWI. Quoting from the back cover of the book, “In the trenches and flak-filled skies of World War I, soldiers and pilots might avoid death only to find...
This fascinating and masterful work, The Rabbi & The Nuns, by R’ Dr. Abraham J. Twerski, documents life lessons learned in the twenty years that R’ Dr. Twerski spent as the director of the psychiatric department at St. Francis General Hospital in Pittsburgh, runs by...
This wonderful (English) sefer (book), Sparkling Speech (Israel Bookshop), authored by R’ Elysha Sandler of Far Rockaway, NY, is an important compilation of many clearly elucidated, profound, and impactful insights on the topic of sanctity and purity of speech. The sefer is easy to read on...
A Tzaddik in Our Time, by Simcha Raz (Feldheim), is the story of the saintly, pious, selfless, compassionate, angelic rabbi of Jerusalem, R’ Aryeh Levin (1885-1969). R’ Aryeh Levin is most famously known as the “Father of the Prisoners,” for the support, camaraderie, prayers and...
Faith Amid the Flames, The Story of Reb Yosef Friedenson, by R’ Yosef C. Golding (Artscroll) is the just published story of the wartime experiences of Yosef Friedenson (1922-2013) z’l. Friedenson survived the horrors of the Holocaust, along with his wife Gittel (Zylberman) a’h -...
The Eve of Destruction, by Howard Blum, is the riveting, tragic, shocking and detailed story of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. With first-time declassified information and documents available to the author, Blum takes us on a heart-stopping journey to the months and weeks leading up...
By Faith Alone: The Story of Rabbi Yehuda Amital, by Elyashiv Reichner, is the biography of R’ Yehuda Amital zt’l (1924 - 2010). R’ Amital was raised in pre-Holocaust Hungary, and in his youth, he was immersed in yeshiva study. At the age of 19,...