“Three Crak!” “Pung!” “Four Bam!” If these cries sound to you like bubbled comic-book punches, you are not from the generations of American Jewish women

In Uri Shulevitz’s autobiographical children’s book, How I Learned Geography, a young boy flies over a world bursting with color and populated by magical creatures and

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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

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

Kabbala and the shtetl, numbers and tattoos, dolls and embroidery merge in the first major New York exhibition of Argentinean artist Mirta Kupferminc.Mirta Kupferminc’s wandering figures meander

EXHIBITS 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

It’s a mitzva to write a Sefer Torah. In fact, the biblical commandment requires every Jew to write one, though this has been subject to