Summer is on its way—a time to revitalize our energies, set priorities and plan for the future. Hadassah is continuing to plan and build, too.

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

Isaac Soloway may be a fairly typical Los Angeles Jewish teenager, but his bar mitzva was anything but the standard Jewish coming-of-age ritual. The event

Operation Let’s Be Friends Ever wondered what soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces truly think of their service—of tours of duty in Gaza and the

The plain concrete building with a faded pink-and-blue exterior along a commercial street in Mantanzas, a small city on the northern coast of Cuba, looked

For the first time in millennia, it may be that freedom in Egypt will not consist of yetziya, leaving. But that is far from certain.

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;

Books: A Tribute, With Warts and All June 2011 Nonfiction Kosher Nation: Why More and More of America’s Food Answers to a Higher Authority by Sue