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

In my house, mishloah manot—festive packages of food exchanged between friends and family on Purim—were a simple, homespun affair. We would pile stacks of waffle-edged, floppy

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

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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

FICTION Rich Boy, Sharon Pomerantz’s debut novel, exemplifies book publisher Twelve’s mission to bring out only 12 books a year that “explain our culture,” works