Apr 6, 2016 | Current Books
I recently read Bernard Lewis's book "What Went Wrong?" Lewis is a Middle East expert-one of the most respected. He writes about the rise and fall of Islam and the reaction by the Muslim world to its failures. Too often Muslims ask "Who...
Jun 22, 2014 | Current Books
Canadian author, Howard Rotberg, a lawyer by vocation, a practitioner of tikun olam by avocation, the child of holocaust survivors, has dedicated his writings to the defense of Western culture and its foundation of ethical monotheism, what Thomas Cahill referred to as...
Apr 11, 2014 | Current Books
The subtitle of this book is "Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God." T.M.Lurmann takes you to Evangelical Churches, and groups of Evangelicals to understand their way of connecting to God. I think of it as the most immanent...
Apr 11, 2014 | Current Books
E.L.Doctorow takes us on a trip through the mind of Andrew. I won't be spoiling the book by telling you Andrew has a mental illness. This book is anxiety provoking. A good thing. Great literature should provoke a sense of anxiety because it means we are...
Feb 28, 2014 | Current Books
Malcolm Gladwell has written many unusual books-unusual for the perspective of topic. In Blink, The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, Gladwell takes us on a journey of the importance of instincts. First impressions. He explains the evolution of instinctual thinking...
Oct 29, 2013 | Current Books
When the Lord returned the exiles of Zion, we were like dreamers. Psalm 126 And so begins Like Dreamers, Yossi Klein Halevi’s intricate weaving of the disparate stories of seven heroes from the Six Day War into a whole cloth, into one...
