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

Samuel Maoz was 20 years old when he killed a man for the first time in his life, on the morning that ushered in the

Film Lebanon Samuel Maoz portrays the terror of four young tank soldiers in the First Lebanon War. The action is either inside the tank or

Yasmin Levy is only 34 years old, but she carries with her a 500-year-old sadness rooted in expulsion and exile. The Jerusalem-born singer, who traces

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

In one of Maira Kalman’s self-portraits, a lopsided pair of blue eyes peers out of a penciled face cradled by a fur-collared coat. Black galoshes

American filmmakers have had a notoriously difficult time bringing Jewish stories to the screen. For decades, they kept mum on things Jewish for fear of

David Mamet’s Race, Donald Margulies’s Collected Stories, and Mike Burtsyn in the National Yiddish Theatre-Folksbiene’s The Adventures of Hershele Ostropolyer.   Race Is race still the most