Uncommon Valor: A Tale of Two Heroes On June 16, 1942, French police enthusiastically rounded up Jewish men, women and children, incarcerated them in the

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

Come and Play, in Israel! Celebrate Purim this year with the lovable stars of the all-new Shalom Sesame. Be Happy, It’s Purim!, disc 6 in the series

Films The Human Resources Manager Central to this humorous Israeli film, based on A.B. Yehoshua’s novel A Woman in Jerusalem, is the transformation of the unnamed

Brief Reviews: In Fiction, as in Life, Becoming a Mensch February 2011 Films The Human Resources Manager Central to this humorous Israeli film, based on

Films Army of Crime What Paris’s Nazi occupiers label an “army of crime” is in fact a group of refugees and communists, mostly Jews, led

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

“I eat Chinese food on Christmas/ Go to the movie theater, too/ ’Cause there just ain’t much else to do on Christmas/ When you’re a