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    Cover of The Seven Good Years
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    The Sev­en Good Years
    Etgar Keret; Silverston, Shlesinger, Cohen, and Berris, trans.
    Cover of A Temple in Flames: The Epic Story of the Final Battle for Jerusalem
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    A Tem­ple in Flames: The Epic Sto­ry of the Final Bat­tle for Jerusalem
    Gershon Bar-Cochva & Ahron Horovitz
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    Read­ing Tanakh with Christians

    Ear­li­er this week, Julie Baretz wrote about why she decid­ed to make aliyah. Her book, The Bible on Loca­tion: Off the Beat­en Path in Ancient and Mod­ern Israel, is now…
    Julie Baretz
    June 10, 2015
    Essay

    Organ­ic Zionism

    Julie Baretz received her license from the Israel Gov­ern­ment Tour Guides train­ing pro­gram in 1987. Since then she has guid­ed thou­sands of Jew­ish and Chris­t­ian vis­i­tors…
    Julie Baretz
    June 8, 2015
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    The Bible on Loca­tion: Off the Beat­en Path in Ancient and Mod­ern Israel
    Julie Baretz
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    Jodie’s Shab­bat Surprise
    Anna Levine; Ksenia Topaz, illus.
    Cover of Hare and Tortoise Race Across Israel
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    Hare and Tor­toise Race Across Israel
    Laura Gehl; Sarah Goodreau, illus.
    Essay

    “Sec­ond-Gen­er­a­tion” Forever

    Talia Carn­er​’s fourth nov­el, Hotel Moscow, was just released by Harper­Collins. It is the sto­ry of an Amer­i­can woman who trav­els to Rus­sia short­ly after the fall of…
    Talia Carn­er
    June 1, 2015
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    3 Falafels in My Pita
    Maya Friedman; Steve Mack, illus.
    Cover of The Political Psychology of Israeli Prime Ministers: When Hard Liners Opt For Peace
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    The Polit­i­cal Psy­chol­o­gy of Israeli Prime Min­is­ters: When Hard Lin­ers Opt For Peace
    Yael S. Aronoff
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    At Home in Exile: Why Dias­po­ra is Good for the Jews
    Alan Wolfe
    Cover of One Land, Two States: Israel and Palestine as Parallel States
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    One Land, Two States: Israel and Pales­tine as Par­al­lel States
    Mark Levine and Mathias Mossberg, ed.
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    The Israeli Mind: How the Israeli Nation­al Char­ac­ter Shapes Our World
    Alon Gratch
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    The Ambas­sadors: A Novel
    George Lern­er
    Cover of Let There Be Water: Israel's Solution for a Water-Starved World
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    Let There Be Water: Israel’s Solu­tion for a Water-Starved World
    Seth M. Siegel
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    Drawn from Water: An Amer­i­can Poet, an Ethiopi­an Fam­i­ly, an Israeli Story
    Dina Elen­bo­gen
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