Israel Is Real

The New York Times –bestselling author of Sweet and Low presents the “oft-told saga of the Jews in a fresh and engaging fashion” ( New York Times ). In AD 70, when the Second Temple was destroyed, a handful of visionaries saved Judaism by reinventing it, taking what had been a national religion and turning it into an idea. Whenever a Jew studied—wherever he was—he would be in the holy city, and his faith preserved. But in our own time, Zionists have turned the book back into a temple, and unlike