The 188th Crybaby Brigade : A Skinny Jewish Kid from Chicago Fights Hezbollah--A Memoir (Hardcover)

from Shrike58

Call this a cautionary tale of getting what you want, as driven by a desire to feel more complete in his Judaism, in love with an Israeli girl, and at a dead end in his career, the author decides that his best option is joining the Israeli Defense Forces. Taking place in the mid-1990s, what you c...

from ALinNY458

This is a very funny but also melancholy story of Joel Chasnoff's service in the Israeli Army. Joel, as an American born and raised Jew, comes to the IDF with allot of expectations about what it would be like to serve in the rough and tough Israeli Army. He finds out that it wasn't so rough and t...

from xenchu

This is the story of a Jewish kid from Chicago with a burning desire to join the Israeli Defense Force, the Israeli Army. He gets his wish. He discovers the training is lacking, the people are incompetent and racist, and army life is boring. Except for the incompetence, it is just like any other ...