Product Description: The three stories in this volume are derived from real-life experiences, mostly during Arieh Larkey s more than forty years of living out his dream in the Jewish Homeland. The first story, An Improbable Zionist Recollections, is a light autobiographical sketch of life s twists and turns, which lead the author on adventures he could never have envisioned as a youth growing up in the Jewish neighborhood of Newark, New Jersey; adventures in a place that lies six thousand miles to the east of his hometown namely, the fledgling Jewish State of Israel...read more

Product Description: A daughter struggles to get her mother to talk about her Holocaust experiences, and tries to understand how those experiences have shaped her own life.What's it like to spend sixteen months in hiding, crouching in a tiny cellar, during the dark years of World War II? To know that many of your friends and relatives have either been shot or sent to concentration camps? To have your life depend on the humanity of an elderly Christian couple who lets you hide under their floor? What if you knew it had been your mother crouching under that floor? Wouldn't you wonder how she stood it? How it felt? What it did to her? And how it all affected you? In Hiding Places, Diane Wyshogrod traces the process of discovery and self-discovery as she researched the experiences of her mother, Helen Rosenberg, who as a teenager hid in just such a cellar, in Zółkiew, Poland...read more

Product Description: Immigrant Lessons is the story of two women, forty years apart, crossing the sea to the shores of their promised land one fleeing Hitler, the other pursuing her spirituality and finding gain as well as loss in the transition. With unusual candor and insight, this warm, lively, and at times laugh-out-loud funny book explores in rich color the rewards and challenges of immigration and family relationships...read more

Product Description: Praise for Coming Together, Coming Apart""Interesting conversation is Israel's most ingratiating commodity, and this is an especially interesting one. To read Coming Together, Coming Apart is to be engaged in an ongoing dialogue with one of Israel's most thoughtful observers--an American who made Israel his home, despite its imperfections and dangers...read more

An American who spent more than a decade in the Israeli Army describes how he joined the Israeli paratroopers in 1990, before the outbreak of the Gulf War, and details his service in the West Bank, Gaza, and Lebanon, including his anti-terrorist work, as well as the unconventional principles of the Israeli military. 20,000 first printing.

The Jewish-American entertainment executive shares his story of how his family decided to leave their comfortable home in the U.S. for a new life in Israel--a decision that changed their lives in unimaginably ways.

Product Description: LAUGH YOUR WAY INTO HEAVEN READING THIS MEANINGFUL AND HILARIOUS SPIRITUAL SAGA! Follow Gil around the globe, as he makes his amazing spiritual journey from corporate America to the depths of South India to the holy city of Jerusalem...read more

"He was born and raised in a land that championed the worst evil ever seen on this planet. He was fortunate to flee to a land of the free and to serve proudly in its army, and then to the land of his ancestors - the land that G-d had promised to His people as an eternal inheritance. His duty would be to fight for the rest of his life for its continued existence as a sovereign state." Joe Alster's personal memoirs record idyllic beginnings in Cologne, Germany to his escape to Holland following Kristallnact, life in America including service in the U.S. Army to daring escapades with Rabbi Meir Kahane and the Jewish Defense league, the search for Mengele, and his move to Isreal where he continues his activism against injustice. Since the quiet and unobserved life has never been enough for Alster, he unfolds his exciting story in a highly emotional and, at times, deeply philosophical stream of consciousness.

Product Description: Portraits in Passion is the inspiring story of twenty-one women who pursued their dreams, emigrating from America to Israel, transforming themselves and the people and society around them in the process. Coming from diverse walks of life, these apparently ordinary women chose to leave the comfort of America to embrace the challenges of living in the Middle East's only democracy...read more

Product Description: The author explains the many Jewish ethnic groups of Israel as well as the Arab community, as each group seeks its place in the new society.

In a collection of e-mails and dispatches, originally excerpted in The New York Times Magazine, the author describe his and his family's move from Los Angeles to Israel, their decision to make Jerusalem their permanent home, the escalation in Jewish-Palestinian tensions, and other experiences in Israel. 15,000 first printing.

A secular Jew offers his opinions on the state of the world in essays with themes ranging from his family's history in Israel to the influence of Christian fundamentalism in the United States and the political ethic of punk culture. (view table of contents)

Product Description: A fascinating and highly readable memoir of an extraordinary man The intriguing personal memoirs of Joseph Alster, from his idyllic youth in Germany, to his escape to Holland following Kristallnacht; from his daring escapades with Rabbi Meir Kahane and the Jewish Defense League in America, to the search for Mengele; and Alster's move to Israel, where he continues his activism against injustice...read more

Product Description: Minor shelf wear to cover, 3 dog-eared pages and name on inside of cover. Spine is not creases. Ships out promptly.

Product Description: Not only was Alex Singer a great human being -- and though young, he was great -- he was also a gifted writer and artist. These letters, diary entries and drawings are quite simply riveting. Whether your interest is Israel, the development of a sensitive young mind, Judaism or God, you will never forget Alex: Building A Life...read more

Product Description: Ranging from the critical and adversarial to the credulous and celebratory, this collection of articles calculates a running tab of persisten Israeli preoccupations, chiefly, coming to terms with Palestinians, and the conditions facing women in the Jewish state...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The author, an American activist who has moved to Israel, shares his observations on Israeli society and explains why he believes he was right to emigrate

Product Description: Book by Freedman, Marcia

The author shares his memories of the founding of Israel and its first conflict with the neighboring Arab states