New Titles at the Aaron Garber Library

This week’s book recommendations from Ilka Gordon, Librarian, Aaron Garber Library

26500 Shaker Boulevard

Library Hours: Mon.-Thurs. 9-4

Mossad: The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service by Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal

Mossad is widely recognized today as the best intelligence service in the world.

It is also the most enigmatic, shrouded in secrecy.

This book unveils the defining and most dangerous operations that have shaped Israel and the world at large from the agency’s more than sixty-year history, among them: the capture of Adolf Eichmann, the eradication of Black September, the destruction of the Syrian nuclear facility, and the elimination of key Iranian nuclear scientists. Through intensive research and exclusive interviews with Israeli leaders and Mossad agents, authors Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal re-create these missions in detail, bringing to life the heroic operatives who risked everything in the face of unimaginable danger.–From

publisher description.

 

The Rarest Blue:  The Remarkable Story of an Ancient Color Lost to History and Rediscovered by Baruch Sterman with Judy Taubes Sterman.

 

The Rarest Blue is a fascinating scholarly book written by dyeing expert Baruch Sterman.  The book begins with the history of tehelet and concludes with the modern discovery of the murex trunculus snail and the current manufacture of

tehelet.  Included is an extensive bibliography of books and articles dealing with tehelet.  Recommended for scholar and layman interested in the reemergence of the ptil tehelet.

 

Coming of Age: An Anthology of Divrei Torah for Bar and Bat Mitzvah, edited by Mandell I. Ganchrow, M.D.

Sason VeSimcha: An anthology of Divrei Torah for Sheva Brachos, edited by Mandell I. Ganchrow, M.D.

Entering The Covenant : An Anthology of Torah Thoughts on Bris Milah , edited by Mandell I. Ganchrow,

The above three books, edited by Dr. Mandell Ganchow, include divrei Torah from numerous modern scholars such as, Rabbi Dr. Moshe Tendler, Rabbi Menachem Genack, Rabbi Kenneth Auman and many more.  Highly recommended for anyone who has to speak at a simcha (ken yirbu).