Book Talk

Zionism / What are we doing here?

By Daniel Orenstein

Daniel Orenstein reviews two new books which explore Israel and its pull on those who choose to call it home - some succesfully others less so More Info

Transforming America's Lobby

By As published in ZEEK

Ameinu Board member Daniel Fleshler's new book is reviewed on ZEEK by Moshe Yaroni. More Info

Wake Up and Smell the Planet

What Do We Do Now? An Oscar for "An Inconvenient Truth" and a Nobel Prize are testament to Al Gore's achievements in increasing our knowledge about the threat of human-driven climate change. But most viewers did not notice the bits of advice flashing across the screen as the lights came on and the movie's closing credits were rolling. Rather, they were more likely to have looked at one another and asked "What do we do now?" Daniel Orenstein a friend of Ameinu reviews three self-help books that promise to help us make the transition to a cleaner, greener lifestyle. More Info

Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States

By Trita Parsi

Detente between America and Iran, of the sort that might have come about in 2003, would in fact make both Israel and the Middle East as a whole very much safer. More Info

Hidden Iran: Paradox and Power in the Islamic Republic

By Ray Takeyh

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Lords of the Land: The War for Israel's Settlements in the Occupied Territories, 1967-2007

By Idith Zertal & Akiva Eldar

Lords of the Land tells the tragic story of Jewish settlement in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. More Info

Passionate Pioneers

By Fradle Pomerantz Freidenreich

Passionate Pioneers: The Story of Yiddish Secular Education in North America, 1910 – 1960 is the first comprehensive documented narrative of the movement to transmit a distinctive sense of secular yeddishayt via 1000 schools and 39 camps. Through extensive research, Fradle Pomerantz Freidenreich, a veteran Ameinu member, reveals the far-reaching contributions of these institutions More Info

A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide

By Jeffrey Goldberg

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Generals in the Cabinet Room: How the Military Shapes Israeli Policy

By Yoram Peri

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Scars of War, Wounds of Peace: The Israeli-Arab Tragedy (Paperback)

By Shlomo Ben-Ami

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Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life

By Sari Nusseibeh

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1967: Israel, the War, and the Year that Transformed the Middle East

By Tom Segev

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