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Israel

Cover of Born Under Fire: The Raising of a Sabra
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Born Under Fire: The Rais­ing of a Sabra
Rina Z. Neiman
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Fic­tion
Promised Land: A Novel
Mar­tin Fletcher
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War Wid­ow: How the Six Day War Changed My Life
Ziva Bak­man Flamhaft
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The Two-Plate Solu­tion: A Nov­el Of Culi­nary May­hem In The Mid­dle East
Jeff Oliv­er
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War­riors, Witch­es, Whores: Women in Israeli Cinema
Rachel S. Harris
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The Machal­niks: Birth of an Air Force
Richard Berman
Cover of Shaya: An Odyssey of Food, My Journey Back to Israel
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Shaya: An Odyssey of Food, My Jour­ney Back to Israel
Alon Shaya
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What Jus­tice Demands: Amer­i­ca and the Israeli-Pales­tin­ian Conflict
Elan Journo
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Dis­armed: Uncon­ven­tion­al Lessons from the World’s Only One-Armed Spe­cial Forces Sharpshooter
Izzy Eza­gui
Cover of This Narrow Space: A Pediatric Oncologist, His Jewish, Muslim, and Christian Patients, and a Hospital in Jerusalem
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This Nar­row Space: A Pedi­atric Oncol­o­gist, His Jew­ish, Mus­lim, and Chris­t­ian Patients, and a Hos­pi­tal in Jerusalem
Elisha Wald­man
Interview

Inter­view: Moriel Rothman-Zecher

Ranen Omer-Sher­man
March 20, 2018
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A Queen in Jerusalem
Tami Shem-Tov and Rachella Sandbank; Avi Ofer, illus.
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Sad­ness Is a White Bird
Moriel Roth­man-Zech­er
Interview

Inter­view: Eshkol Nevo

Ranen Omer-Sher­man
January 16, 2018
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Seek­ing Asy­lum in Israel: Refugees and the His­to­ry of Migra­tion Law
Gilad Ben-Nun
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Amichai’s Jerusalem

The best guide to this strange place called Jerusalem might be Yehu­da Amichai, a poet whose work seems per­ma­nent­ly sus­pend­ed between the sec­u­lar and sacred.

Ari Hoff­man
December 18, 2017
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