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Nonfiction Poisoning the Press: Richard Nixon, Jack Anderson, and the Rise of Washington’s Scandal Culture Mark Feldstein
Nonfiction A Jewish Professor’s Political Punditry: Fifty-plus Years of Published Commentary by Ron Rubin Peri Devaney, ed.
Nonfiction Nine Lives of Israel: A Nation’s History Through the Lives of its Foremost Leaders Jack L. Schwartzwald
Nonfiction State of Failure: Yasser Arafat, Mahmoud Abbas, and the Unmaking of the Palestinian State Jonathan Schanzer
Nonfiction The Peace Puzzle: America’s Quest for Arab-Israeli Peace, 1989 – 2011 Daniel C. Kurtzer, Scott B. Lasensky, & Shibley Z. Telhami
Essay Rabbi Gafni’s Revenge Earlier this week, Yuval Elizur examined religious political power in Israel and January’s elections and Lawrence Malkin discussed the tension between tradition and… Yuval Elizur March 15, 2013
Essay Follow the Talmud or a Jewish Sharia? Earlier this week, Yuval Elizur examined religious political power in Israel and January’s elections. Today, Lawrence Malkin discusses the tension between… Yuval Elizur March 13, 2013
Essay Religious Political Power in Israel Comes to a Halt Yuval Elizur and Lawrence Malkin are the co-authors of the new book The War Within: Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox Threat to Democracy and the Nation. They will be blogging here… Yuval Elizur March 11, 2013
Nonfiction Designing Babies: How Technology is Changing the Ways We Create Children Robert Klitzman