From the Wilderness and Lebanon, by Asael Lubotzky, is the powerful, heartrending, inspiring and courageous story of one Israeli soldier and the men under his command. Asael takes us from battle in the Gaza Strip to battle in Lebanon in 2006, during what became known...
In the spring of 1945, a Russian doctor with the liberating Red Army found a diary in the ruins of the crematoria at Auschwitz-Birkenau. It was not until 2008 (!) that the then Holocaust Center of Northern California was contacted about the diary… “It was...
Angels in the Sky, by Robert Gandt, is the fascinating, moving, compelling, astonishing, triumphant story of a band of volunteer air men from other countries (Britain, Canada, USA) - mostly Jewish, but some not - who saved the newly formed, and newly attacked State of...
A Boy Named 68818, by Israel Starck (as told to Miriam [Starck] Miller), is the story of young Srulek Storch (renamed Israel Starck when he came to America after the war), and his experiences during the Holocaust years. The story begins with Srulek’s idyllic and...
In this fascinating, thoroughly researched, and enlightening book, When General Grant Expelled the Jews, Jonathan D. Sarna, takes us back in time to the American Civil War (1861-1865) when tensions ran high in a divided, war-ridden, America. It was into this turbulent environment that General...
With Pesach upon us, I share with you one of my favorite Haggadot. The Heritage Haggadah (Feldheim Publishers), with commentary and insights by R’ Eliyahu KiTov (b.1912, Poland - d.1976, J'lem), is a beautiful Haggadah. With its clear font and easy to follow text, it...
Hunting Eichmann, by Neil Bascomb, is the story of the notorious Nazi, war criminal, despicable beyond all words, infamous Adolf Eichmann, the implementor of the “Final Solution.” In the chaos of post war Europe, Eichmann manages to evades capture time and again. Eventually settling in Argentina,...
In this masterful biography, Menachem Begin: The Battle for Israel’s Soul, written by Daniel Gordis, we journey with Menachem Begin from his hometown and childhood in Brisk, to his life in the Holy Land, to his death and burial - at the age of 79...
The Boy On The Wooden Box, by Leon Leyson, is the memoir of Leon Leyson (born Leib Lezjon), who survived - against all odds - the Holocaust. He was only ten years old when the Nazis invaded Poland, and he and his family were forced...
In this new book, Terror and Emunah in Har Nof (Artscroll), Mrs. Risa Rotman bravely, beautifully and openly takes us with on her journey of the turbulent year of her husband’s coma post the Har Nof massacre (Cheshvan 5775/Nov.2014). Unlike the other five victims of the...