jbc network authors Mordechai Bar-On
Elana Bell
Elana Benjamin
Moshe Dayan: Israel's Controversial Hero
Eyes, Stones
My Mother's Spice Cupboard: A Journey from Baghdad to Bombay to Bondi
Louisiana State University Press, 2012. $17.95 ISBN: 978-0807144640 In this debut poetry collection, Elana Bell brings her heritage as the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors to consider the difficult question of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Yale University Press, 2012. $25.00 ISBN: 978-0300149418 In this interpretive biography, Mordechai Bar-On, Dayan’s chief of staff during the Sinai War and eminent historian of Israel, offers an intimate view of Dayan’s private life, public career, and political controversies, set against a highly perceptive and original analysis of Israel’s political environment from pre-Mandate Palestine through the 1980s.
Shelly Bell
Hybrid Publishers, 2012. $24.95 ISBN: 9781921665554 My Mother's Spice Cupboard is the story of the author's Sephardic Jewish family's journey from Iraq to India to Australia, intertwined with the history of the Baghdadi Jews of Bombay.
Rachel Berghash
Hershel Becker A Year to Remember
Love Peace: Blueprints for Lasting Relationships CreateSpace, 2011. $18.90 ISBN: 978-1466282070 Love Peace provides conversation starters using materials that follow the weekly Torah portion. It is an easy-to-use resource to help build meaningful, loving relationships.
Lee Bender & Jerome Verlin
Peter Beinart Pressing Israel: Media Bias Exposed from A-Z
Pavilion Press, 2012. $16.90 ISBN: 1414507275 Point-by-point from A-to-Z, Pressing Israel exposes and analyzes the imbalanced-againstIsrael terms in which the mainstream Western media covers embattled Israel’s struggle against states and groups that seek to destroy it.
The Crisis of Zionism
Henry Holt, 2012. $26.00 ISBN: 9780805094121 In the United States, the refusal of major Jewish organizations to defend Democracy in the Jewish State is alienating many young liberal Jews from Zionism itself. In the next generation, the liberal Zionist dream—the dream of a state that safeguards the Jewish people and cherishes democratic ideals—may die.
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Half the House: My Life In and Out of Jerusalem
Sunstone Press, 2011. $19.95 ISBN: 978-0-86534-805-9 Half the House chronicles seven decades of life in the twentieth century, beginning with Rachel Berghash’s Orthodox Jewish upbringing in Jerusalem during World War II, time as an Israeli soldier, marriage to an American, and a quest that results in an embrace of the spirit of Judaism.
Karen Bergreen
© Lauren Koch
Soul Mate Publishing, 2012. $4.99 ISBN: 978161935075-5 A Jewish food addict’s road to physical, emotional, and spiritual recovery as she searches for her beshert under the watchful eye of the nation.
Perfect is Overrated
St. Martin's Griffin, 2012. $14.99 ISBN: 978-1250001764 A freshly-divorced former assistant district attorney gets over her postpartum depression by solving the murders of the mommies from her daughter's pre-school class. It's funny, I promise.