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Book Reviews

Anne Frank's World (Anne Frank in the World: 1929-1945)
An Apologist for the Allies (The Myth of Rescue: Why the Democracies Could Not Have Saved More Jews from the Nazis; William Rubinstein)
Carter’s Calumny (PalestinePeace Not Apartheid; JimmyCarter)
A Child Learns to Appreciate Yiddish (Too Young for Yiddish; Richard Michelson)
The Cold War’s Strangest Bedfellows (The Ransom of the Jews: The Story of The Extraordinary Secret Bargain Between Romania and Israel; Radu Ioanid)
A Comprehensive Jewish Encyclopedia (The JPS Guide to Jewish Tradition; Ronald L. Eisenberg)
The Dark Side of the UN (The UN Gang: A Memoir of Incompetence, Corruption, Anti-Semitism, and Islamic Extremism at the UN; Pedro A.Sanjuan)
Dennis Ross was Doomed to Fail (Doomed to Succeed: The U.S.-Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama; Dennis Ross.
Dershowitz to the Defense of Israel (The Case for Israel; Alan Dershowitz)
The Development of a Nation (The Hope Fulfilled: The Rise of Modern Israel; Leslie Stein)
Don't Substitute for the Original Myths & Facts (A Time for Truth; Elliot M. Kramer)
Explaining Zionism (What Do Zionists Believe?; Colin Shindler)
The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies (Ivory Towers on Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America; Martin Kramer)
A Flawed Portrait of Yitzhak Rabin (Soldier of Peace: The Life of Yitzhak Rabin; Dan Kurzman)
Fun Facts About American Jews (American Jewish Desk Reference; The American Jewish Historical Society)
For Obama, Israel was ‘No Promised Land’ (A Promised Land, Barack Obama.)
The Harmonica of Hope (The Harmonica; Tony Johnston)
An Illuminating Passover Story (The Moriah Haggadah; Avner Moriah)
An Incomparable Guide to the Lost Jewish Communities (The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life)
Is Michael Oren An Ally? (Ally; Michael Oren)
Jewish India (India's Jewish Heritage: Ritual, Art, & Life-Cycle; Shalva Weil)
The Jewish Influence on American Politics (Jews in American Politics; L. Sandy Maisel and Ira Forman)
Learning from the State Department's Past (Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964-1968, V. 20, Arab-Israeli Dispute 1967-1968)
Little Help for Israel (Why Blame Israel? The Facts Behind the Headlines)
Looking at Terror in a New Light (Germs: Biological Weapons; America's Secret War: Defending the U.S. Homeland; Terrorism and U.S. Foreign Policy)
Muddling Fact and Fiction (Exile; Richard North Patterson)
The Oldest Tanakh (The Leningrad Codex: A Facsimile Edition; David Noel Freedman)
One Man Made a Difference (Black Jews, Jews, and Other Heroes: How Grassroots Activism Led to the Rescue of the Ethiopian Jews; Howard Lenhoff)
Peaceat Any Cost (The Case for Peace: How the Arab-Israeli Conflict Can be Resolved; Alan Dershowitz)
Philanthropy in Israel (Sources For Funding - The Israel Foundation Directory)
Pius XII: Saint or Sinner? (Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII; John Cornwell)
PlacingSettlements in a Vacuum (The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-1977; Gershom Gorenberg)
ReaderBeware of Messianic Twists (The Ezekial Option; Joel Rosenberg)
Recipe for Killing Middle East Peace (Negotiating Middle East Peace; Daniel Kurtzer, Scott Lasensky, William Quandt, Shibley Telhami and Steven Spiegel)
Revisiting the Palestinian Refugee Issue (The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited; Benny Morris)
Speaking Out on Anti-Semitism (The Wicked Son: Anti-Semitism, Self-Hatred and the Jews; David Mamet)
AServiceable Middle East Dictionary (Historical Dictionary of the Arab-Israeli Conflic; PR Kumaraswamy)
Surviving the Angel of Death (Surviving the Angel of Death: The Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz; Eva Mozes Kor and Lisa Rojany Buccieri)
Walt and Mearsheimer's Lobby Fantasies (The Israel Lobby; Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer)
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Full Color (Brave and Desperate; Danny Dor)
What If America Turned On Its Jews? (The Plot Against America; Philip Roth)

Movie Reviews

The Answer is on the Inside (Israel Inside: How a Small Nation Makes a Big Difference)
The Gatekeepers Speak (The Gatekeepers)
The Closeted World of Gay Orthodox Jews (Trembling Before G-d)
The List Is Life (Schindler's List)
Munich’s Missed Opportunity (Munich)
Terrorism’s Human Face (Paradise Now)
UnderstandingIslamism (Obsession: The Threat of Radical Islam)
TheWest Bank in Song and Dance (West Bank Story)
Forging Hope (The Counterfeiters - Die Fälscher)
Dershowitz Defends Israel (The Case for Israel)
Personal Stories from the Second Lebanon War (Under Fire and Scorched Summer)

Music Reviews

Avodat Shabbat (Herman Berlinski)
Di Naye Hagode (Max Helfman)
Live at Stubbs & Youth (Matisyahu)
Great Songs of the Yiddish Stage, Volume 2 (Bay Mir Bistu Sheyn)
The Gates of Justice (Dave Brubeck)