Adapted by Anna Olswanger from a story by Rabbi Rafael Grossman, illustrated by Yevgenia Nayberg

It’s crucial for young readers to learn about life in the former Soviet Union. This touching graphic novel illustrates how the communist system suppressed Jewish identity, how brave individuals resisted the totalitarian regime, and how Americans helped defeat it.

by Yossi Klein Halevi
2019

Yossi Klein Halevi’s book, At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden: A Jew’s Search for G[-]d with Christians and Muslims in the Holy Land, offers readers deeply personal reflections on the encounters of Halevi, an Israeli Jewish journalist, with Christians and Muslims in the Holy Land.

by Eli Sharabi
2025

Eli Sharabi’s memoir not only offers readers a firsthand account of Hamas terrorists’ deplorable treatment of Israeli hostages in captivity, but also paints an inspiring portrait of a man seeking to maintain a hopeful attitude while supporting other hostages in captivity.

by Matti Friedman
2019

Friedman details the complex lives of Jews born in Arab lands who worked as spies for the fledgling Jewish state.

by Hadassa Ben Ari, illustrated by Tehila Bar-Hama
2024

Edited in collaboration with psychologists, Ben-Ari’s anthology offers 71 stories of heroism, tastefully illustrated in muted tones, in keeping with the editors’ non-sensationalist approach.

by Daniel Silva
2007

The Kill Artist, the first book in the Gabriel Allon series authored by #1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva, is a literary fictional thriller featuring nuanced Israeli characters that grabs your attention and keeps it.

by Ammiel Hirsch
2023

In this accessible book, readers trying to navigate a post-October 7 landscape will find guidance and wisdom to help them do so from a humble and intelligent Jewish religious leader who has devoted his life to the Jewish state, Jewish life, and general society.

by Alan Dershowitz
2024

Alan Dershowitz’s slim volume is packed with many facts from which students who genuinely want to learn more about Israel and the current situation facing the country will benefit.

by Deborah Lakritz
2024

Edited in collaboration with psychologists, Ben-Ari’s anthology offers 71 stories of heroism, tastefully illustrated in muted tones, in keeping with the editors’ non-sensationalist approach.

by A. Shalom, illustrated by Tova Katz
2002

Through the Flames of Aleppo dramatizes the harrowing events of the Aleppo pogrom through the eyes of a Jewish boy, Ezra. The book is written by A. Shalom, who consulted archives from the time and met with members of the community who lived through the riots in writing the novel. 

by David Novak
2016

In his book, Rabbi Dr. David Novak aims to show that Zionism and Judaism are not mutually exclusive, but rather integrally linked.