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Israel

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Excerpt — Shab­bat: Recipes and Rit­u­als from My Table to Yours

Adeena Suss­man
September 4, 2023
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Non­fic­tion
Gol­da Meir: Israel’s Matriarch
Deb­o­rah E. Lipstadt
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Chil­dren’s
The Lost Spy and the Green Dress
Alex Paz-Gold­man
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Fic­tion
Par­al­lel Lines
Ruth Marks Eglash
Cover of Amos Oz: The Legacy of a Writer in Israel and Beyond
Non­fic­tion
Amos Oz: The Lega­cy of a Writer in Israel and Beyond
Ranen Omer-Sher­man
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Fic­tion
Inside Infor­ma­tion
Eshkol Nevo; Sondra Silverston, trans.
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Non­fic­tion
The Land of Hope and Fear: Israel’s Bat­tle for Its Inner Soul
Isabel Ker­sh­n­er
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Non­fic­tion
The Arc of a Covenant: The Unit­ed States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jew­ish People
Wal­ter Rus­sell Mead
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Impos­si­ble Takes Longer: 75 Years After Its Cre­ation, Has Israel Ful­filled Its Founders’ Dreams?

Daniel Gordis
April 24, 2023
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Non­fic­tion
Israel’s Dec­la­ra­tion of Inde­pen­dence: The His­to­ry and Polit­i­cal The­o­ry of the Nation’s Found­ing Moment
Neil Rogachevsky
Dov Zigler
Cover of Impossible Takes Longer: 75 Years After Its Creation, Has Israel Fulfilled Its Founders' Dreams?
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Impos­si­ble Takes Longer: 75 Years After Its Cre­ation, Has Israel Ful­filled Its Founders’ Dreams?
Daniel Gordis
Essay

Invis­i­ble Legacies

Yael Schon­brun
March 27, 2023
Essay

‘Who Mur­dered Arloso­roff?’: Exam­in­ing an Unsolved 1933 Killing in Palestine

Jonathan Wil­son
February 13, 2023
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Non­fic­tion
The No-State Solu­tion: A Jew­ish Manifesto
Daniel Boyarin
Essay

When the Out­sider Comes Back Inside: Writ­ing an Israeli Mys­tery Series as an Amer­i­can Author

Ellen Frankel
January 30, 2023
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Non­fic­tion
Jerusalem Falls: Sev­en Cen­turies of War and Peace
John D. Hosler
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