FILMS Zaytoun An odd-couple road movie is mixed with Middle East politics as Fahed, a Palestinian boy from a Lebanese refugee camp longing to plant

Exhibits/ Music Festivals/ Film Festivals/Theater United States ARIZONA The Sylvia Plotkin Judaica Museum, Phoenix (480-951-0323; www.cbiaz.org/about/museum) The museum features a composite synagogue sanctuary from Djerba, Tunisia, with ornate floral-motif tiles

Storied Feasts Jewish folklore is rich with captivating tales that skillfully incorporate food as a major plot element. It is with food—and cooking—in mind that

FILMS War of the Buttons It is 1944 in occupied France, and Jews are being dragged off by the French police. But for the young

Fiction The Middlesteins: A Novel by Jami Attenberg. (Grand Central Publishing, 288 pp. $24.99 cloth, $15 paper) Jami Attenberg, author of The Middlesteins: A Novel, has structured

A Wonderful Man My husband and I were in Israel last May on our honeymoon. One of our goals was to find my great-grandfather’s grave.

Our Jewish Savior The Hebrew Hammer is back. Mordechai Jefferson Carver (Adam Goldberg), the Orthodox Jewish leather coat-wearing, payes-sporting superhero of the 2003 Jewsploitation film The

FILMS White Tiger Russia’s bid for the foreign-language Oscar starts as a World War II film (above) on the epic tank battles between the Red