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 wooden Torah casings, and

Passover is coming—the holiday when we celebrate Jewish freedom around our Seder tables. “Inside Hadassah” highlights a Seder that Hadassah women in Fresno, California, brought

The Washington Haggadah by Joel ben Simon. Translated by David Stern. (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, $39.95) Collectors can now enjoy a facsimile edition

Google This! Yad Vashem Archives Going Online Children in the Warsaw Ghetto, women awaiting selection at a concentration camp and families before and after World

Films Little Rose Combining history, a thriller yarn and a love triangle, Jan Kidawa-Blonski’s taut, well-acted film explores the turbulent years of 1967-1968. Following Israel’s

Our Haggadah: Uniting Traditions for Interfaith Families by Cokie and Steve Roberts (Harper, 137 pp. $19.99) This small book has a lot of heart. In

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

I hoped I was done with flimflam in 1952 when a Coney Island fortuneteller sent my Orthodox mother’s life savings up in smoke. But now