An enlarged map of Paris from a 1920 French guidebook hangs at the entrance of the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s “Paris Through the Window: Marc

From the fifth-floor terrace of the new National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia you can see the whole sweep of Independence Mall. Off

The 16-foot hourglass of polished steel, reflecting an inverted sky and surrounding landscape, shines at the highest point of the grounds of the hilltop Israel

“Three Crak!” “Pung!” “Four Bam!” If these cries sound to you like bubbled comic-book punches, you are not from the generations of American Jewish women

In Uri Shulevitz’s autobiographical children’s book, How I Learned Geography, a young boy flies over a world bursting with color and populated by magical creatures and

When Holon mayor Motti Sasson and city manager Hana Hertsman commissioned star architect Ron Arad in 2004 to plan a design museum for their city,

UNITED STATES ARIZONA The Sylvia Plotkin Judaica Museum, Phoenix (480-951-0323; www.spjm.org) On permanent view is a composite synagogue sanctuary from Djerba, Tunisia, with ornate floral-motif tiles

Exhibits Lox With Black Beans & Rice: Portraits of Cuban Jews in South Florida In 30 large-format candid images and brief oral histories, Randi Sidman-Moore