When the city of Lod decided to widen a road in 1996, archaeologist Miriam Avissar was called in. The construction was to take place near

It was a summer evening at the Dead Sea. The wind breathed fire, but with every passing hour the air grew calmer and the temperature

In our pop culture world, we recognize the actor before we remember the playwright, the dancer before the choreographer and the singer before the songwriter.

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

Exhibits Last Folio: A Photographic Journey With Yuri Dojc From Bardejov to Kosice, Lucenec to Michalovce, Slovakian-born photographer Yuri Dojc searched for his family’s past;

Sitting quietly in its corner of a Los Angeles park, the new home of the Museum of the Holocaust is almost invisible from the street.

United States ARIZONA The Sylvia Plotkin Judaica Museum, Phoenix (480-951-0323; www.spjm.org) Features a composite synagogue sanctuary from Djerba, Tunisia, with ornate floral-motif tiles and wooden Torah casings, and

 Miss You /Te Extraño Movies about the 30,000 men and women who were “disappeared” in the 1970s during Argentina’s military dictatorship are becoming more nuanced,