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Including: -Rav Rafoel Levin on the obligatory smile -Rav Shmuel Aron Yudelevitz on conflict -the Vizhnitz Rebbe, shalom bayis, and jewelry -Rav Avraham Pam on communication -the Ponevezher Rav on...

The book is a historical document of primary importance. It is also an expression of the innermost thoughts and feelings of a single individual whose will to survive and to bring this story to the...

The Balfour Declaration: Sixty-Seven Words 100 Years of Conflict is a concise account of the players, motivations, and setting for one of the most consequential letters of modern history. The letter...

The Bloody Price of FreedomAuthor: Richard D. HeidemanPublisher: Gefen BooksPublication Date: 44346Number of Pages: 296 pagesBinding: Political ScienceISBN-10: 965702305XISBN-13: 9789657023051

Solomon Jacobi, born in the Ukraine and educated in Odessa, a veteran of the Russian army and a lifelong Zionist activist, died in 1939 at the age of forty-two. Twenty-five years later, the editor of...

During the Six Day War, Israel recaptured Gush Etzion, after it was in the hands of the Arabs since 1948. At the time, Moshe Moscovic, a charismatic and devoted Zionist leader, predicted that the...

This is a book about why we eat, and why we diet; why we overeat and then deprive ourselves; why, finally, we fail to feed and satisfy the person we really wish ourselves to be. This is not a diet...

The full and fascinating history of this remarkable community, from its beginnings in the early part of the 14th century until its virtual destruction during the Holocaust. The book deals with the...

This is the first comprehensive book to describe and illustrate in color all the species and races of mammals of Israel and will be helpful in their identification. The Mammals of Israel includes...

The Scout is based on the true story of the legendary Salim Saadi, tracing his extraordinary life, and his daring exploits serving in the Israeli army, as well as providing a broader view of Bedouin...

This is the story of the fighting underground of the Jews of Kovno, Lithuania, in World War II. The authors, Zvie A. Brown and Dov Levin, were themselves members of the underground, and this...

The stories range from teenage mischief in the na?ve, revolutionary sixties to the humourous misgivings of students' travel and odd jobs; from soldiers' battles in the Middle East to terror fighter's...

Smuggled out of the Warsaw ghetto, young Dov was soon captured by the Nazis and imprisoned in the living hell of Sobibor death camp, where he witnessed the extermination of his people. One of several...

This volume covers Bereshit (Genesis) and and Shemot (Exodus)and is the first of a two volume set. Setting himself the task of helping each individual penetrate the Torah to make the text his/her...

This volume covers Vayikra (Leviticus), Bamidbar (Numbers) and Devarim (Deuteronomy) and is the first of a two volume set. Setting himself the task of helping each individual penetrate the Torah to...

Join characters like Bernhard in that split second when he says goodby to his eight-year-old son, sending him off to freedom on a train. Escape near death in the icy waters of Hungary and hide from...

Meet a fascinating group of Jewish Israelis: the political left and the right, the religious and the secular, a bus driver, an intelligence analyst, students, a high school principal, the wounded,...

From pre-Hitler Germany to Kristallnacht, a lastminute escape from the Holocaust, and on to a life on three continents, this book catalogs the experiences of one Jewish family as the events of the...

That Yasser Arafat was made by the KGB? These and many more such intriguing stories make up Jack Cooper's fascinating collection of historical windows on the life of the Jews. Covering biblical times...

Rabbi Gershon Schusterman was an expert at comforting bereaved community members who asked, "Where is God when tragedy strikes?" That is, until the rabbi's 36-year-old wife died suddenly, leaving him...

In trenchant and colorful prose, Lihi Lapid tells a true-life story of women (and men) struggling to live up to expectations (most of all their own): a story about shattered dreams, and about finding...

Litvaks and Lithuanians Confront the Past.Author: Sara ManoblaPublisher: Gefen BooksPublication Date: Jun 15, 2014Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...