news & features

• Jacob Marcus, chronicler of American Jews, 99

• San Francisco’s oldest native, Sidney Amber, at age 109

• L.A. City Council mulls `Rabin Square’

• Specter ends his bid for presidency

• Rabin’s death underscores Israel-diaspora differences

• Jewish groups back Clinton’s call for U.S. troops in Bosnia

• Survivors cite parallels between Rwanda, Holocaust

• Poles foresake Catholic Church, seek Western democratic values

• Arafat visits Jenin, calls for support of elections

• Trial of admitted Italian Nazi may renew post-war debate

• Pollard is granted Israeli citizenship

• Mideast Report

• Peres assigns top roles in Cabinet to next generation

• Number of Israeli emigres in Britain double

• Burial caves of Maccabees are discovered in central Israel

• U.S. envoy and Peres eye talks with Syria

• Death of Israeli, 8 others blamed on quake near Eilat

• Spying on right adds twists in assassination probe

• Ex-Bar-Ilan professor: I may have helped kill Rabin

• Workshop explores roots and rites of Jewish cuisine

• JCF draws record $2.3 million in wake of assassination

• Montefiore 45th: Jewish food fair

• Goldmans say prize empowers activists to save Earth

• 21 emigres displaced by fire still seek permanent housing

• Videoconference brings concert from Lincoln Center to S. Bay

• Why be Jewish? Jews and non-Jews seeking answers

• Ex-West Bank `mayor’ in Berkeley visit, says Jews must study Arab culture

• Oft-excluded find niche at Jewish women’s conference

• Rice, beans, water: Brandeis kids, parents taste hunger

• UCSF offering free Tay-Sachs screening next week

• Growing 2-year-old Ohr Emet stresses ‘family spirit’

• Jewish women isolated from community despite advances, new study finds

• Home schooling: Instilling Jewish family values

columns

• Toledot: On Jacob, Esau and healing brotherly rifts

opinions & letters

• Peres off to a good start

• A modest proposal: Get rid of organizational dinners

• Pollard case unnecessarily strains Israeli, U.S. relations

supplements

• Biographies, novels reveal Jewish women’s stories

• Snakes and roses: Grandma’s poems of wonder years

• Jewish library books family fun program

• Kids’ books run gamut: coming-of-age to cookery