Hootch 8 Clearance connecting us directly to the

connecting us directly to the ‘voice of the Torah’

indeed for us all

Includes new preface and an annotated bibliography of literary criticism

based on the author's popular Ask the Rabbi column in The Jerusalem Post

Maggid Books is honored to bring these hitherto unpublished essays to a long-awaiting public

Hootch 8 Clearance connecting us directly to theAs a New York City bachelor about to complete his medical training, the last place Paul Brief thought he'd end up was Vietnam. The year was 1969, and Brief, an ambitious if irreverent orthopedic surgeon, was too busy enjoying the fruits of the sexual revolution to consider the possibility of being drafted. In Hootch 8, Brief details his sudden arrival at a naval hospital outside Danang, along with dozens of his fellow soldier doctors, following a