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Nonfiction Entebbe Declassified: The Untold First-Hand Stories of the Legendary Rescue Operation Sayeret Matkal Operators, Mitch Ginsburg (Translator)
Nonfiction Israel’s Long War with Hezbollah: Military Innovation and Adaptation Under Fire Raphael D. Marcus
Nonfiction Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel Matti Friedman Winner of the 2018 Natan Book Award
Nonfiction I Am Not a Spy: An American Jew Goes Deep in the Arab World & Israeli Army Michael Bassin
Nonfiction Disarmed: Unconventional Lessons from the World’s Only One-Armed Special Forces Sharpshooter Izzy Ezagui
Nonfiction Hell Before Their Very Eyes: American Soldiers Liberate Concentration Camps, April 1945 John C. McManus
Nonfiction No Mission Is Impossible: The Death-Defying Missions of the Israeli Special Forces Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal; Michael Bar-Zohar, Michael and Nathan Burstein, trans.
Nonfiction Mossad: The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal
Nonfiction Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation Yossi Klein Halevi
Essay Maintaining Jewish Roots in the Military by Elise CooperAlthough there are many themes to Alison Buckholtz’s book, Standing By: The Making of an American Military Family in a Time of War, one that… Elise Cooper May 1, 2013
Interview Meet Sami Rohr Prize Finalist…Shani Boianjiu Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterOver the next several weeks, we’ll be introducing you to the five fiction finalists for this year’s Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish… Naomi Firestone-Teeter March 18, 2013
