On October 6, 1973, Egyptian and Syrian forces attacked Israel, starting the cruelest war in the Jewish state’s history. Three weeks later, Israel had turned

Be kind, my father would say to me from as far back as I can remember, and for a long list of situations. Be kind,

Lonely Zionists, Unite! In her excellent commentary in the June/July issue (“The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Zionist”), Gloria Goldreich expressed frustration with the “resistance of

Exhibits/ Music Festivals/ Film Festivals/Theater ARIZONA The Sylvia Plotkin Judaica Museum, Phoenix (480-951-0323; www.cbiaz.org/about/museum) The museum features a composite synagogue sanctuary from Djerba, Tunisia, with ornate floral-motif tiles and wooden

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Dinner Tablets A new iPad application by Israeli company Kinetic Art will have you preparing meals by Israeli chef Meir Adoni with professional ease, in

Nonfiction FDR and the Jews by Richard Breitman and Allan Lichtman. (Harvard University Press, 433 pp. $29.95) One of the more contentious issues in Holocaust historiography

FILMS Zaytoun An odd-couple road movie is mixed with Middle East politics as Fahed, a Palestinian boy from a Lebanese refugee camp longing to plant