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Nonfiction Good Arabs: The Israeli Security Agencies and the Israeli Arabs, 1948 – 1967 Hillel Cohen; Haim Watzman, trans.
Nonfiction Pioneers of Religious Zionism: Rabbis Alkalai, Kalischer, Mohliver, Reines, Kook and Maimon Raymond Goldwater
Nonfiction What We Brought Back: Jewish Life After Birthright- Reflections by Alumni of Taglit-Birthright Israel Trips Wayne Hoffman
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: My Russian Grandmother and Her American… Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterNational Jewish Book Award Winner Meir Shalev has a memoir coming out on October 4th (translated by NETWORK… Naomi Firestone-Teeter August 23, 2011
Essay Behind Farm 54: The Making of the Story “Houses” Earlier this week, Galit and Gilad Seliktar shared the making of the first story and the second story in Farm 54. In… Galit Seliktar, Gilad Seliktar July 15, 2011
Essay Behind Farm 54: The Making of the Story “Spanish Perfume” On Monday, Galit and Gilad Seliktar shared the making of the first story in Farm 54, “The Substitute Lifeguard.” Today, they share… Galit Seliktar, Gilad Seliktar July 13, 2011
Essay Behind Farm 54: The Making of the Graphic Novel The graphic novel Farm 54 is based on three stories written by Galit Seliktar. The stories were first published in Israeli literary magazines and then… Galit Seliktar, Gilad Seliktar July 11, 2011
Essay Cooking and Self-Improvement Earlier, Efrat Libfroind wrote about being a mother and a full-time pastry chef and the only kosher cooking student in class. Her new… Efrat Libfroind June 29, 2011
