(Reviewer: Milton Shain, Vol. 81, #1, Summer 2026) In A History of Christianity, the Oxford scholar Diarmaid MacCulloch – a keen observer of ecclesiastical history and religious conflict – warns against facile and glib constructions of the past. “There is no surer basis for
(Reviewer: David Saks, Vol 78, #2, Winter 2023) David Saks As its title indicates, Challenging the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement: 20 Years of Responding to Anti-Israel Campaigns examines how world Jewry and its supporters have responded to the international campaign
(Reviewer: Gary Selikow, Vol. 66, #3, Chanukah 2011) Edwin Black’s The Farhud: Roots of the Arab-Nazi Alliance in the Holocaust is a penetrating and insightful look into the Islamic-Nazi alliance of World War II, the bloody pogrom of Jews by Arab mobs in Baghdad
(Reviewer: Gary Selikow, Vol. 65, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2010) In this book Jamie Glazov, managing editor of Front Page magazine, deals with the strong support for totalitarian states and terrorist organizations by left wing radicals from the 1920s until today. The author would
(Reviewer: Gary Selikow, Vol. 67, No. 3, Chanukah 2012) Simon Sebag-Montefiore’s acclaimed and bestselling history of Jerusalem is an intriguing read, full of interesting lesser known facts, personages and new angles. At times, it reads like a well-paced novel, and is as hard to
(Reviewer: Ralph Zulman, Vol. 67, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2012) Ambassador Yehuda Avner was born in Manchester, England in 1928. He was a founding member of Kibbutz Lavi in the Galilee, and entered the Israel Foreign Service in the 1950s. During his lengthy diplomatic
(Reviewer: Gary Selikow, Vol. 67, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2012) The pervasive myth of an all-powerful Israel lobby controlling American foreign policy has long dominated public discourse. In The Arab Lobby: The Invisible Alliance that Undermines America’s Interests in the Middle East, Mitchell Bard
