news & features

• AJCommittee aide dies, 75

• Israel Bonds exec dies, 50

• Israeli fund-raiser dies, 59

• Recent emigre wins science award

• Seders reflect how Jews come to the Passover table

• AOL’s Jewish Community forum to host online seder on April 8

• White House again turns Pollard down

• USC, which once shunned Jews, now welcomes them

• Cruises gearing up for Passover with rabbis, matzah, seder menus

• AJCongress tells Arafat he is failing to curb terrorism

• Jewish groups hail rejection of immigration limitations

• U.S.-Israel relationship examined

• Intermarriage takes center stage at forum

• Anti-terror measure added to House bill

• Internet Haggadah: A trip through seder

• Editorial in Howard U. paper accuses ADL of spying on blacks

• Will high-tech Zionism replace philanthropy? Conferees say yes

• Judge favoring public chanukiot being considered for higher court

• U.S. teenagers mail Israeli peers letters of support

• Water levels are near crisis levels, World Bank warns

• Skyscrapers dotting Tel Aviv landscape

• Mideast Report

• Refusenik stuck in Russia for Pesach needs assistance

• News Analysis: Results of Israel’s two primaries create highly polarized slates

• Auschwitz mini-mall halted by widespread criticism

• World Report

• Israel population reaches 5.6 million

• Einstein’s first notes on relativity donated

• Canadian developer transforms Israel’s urban landscape

• Britain criticized for rejecting Holocaust denial law

• Rabin’s killer gets life in prison; lawyers plan to appeal

• Italy will seek to extradite Achille Lauro hijacker

• New pro-Israel Australian premier rails against terrorism

• Jerusalem body nixes non-Orthodox rabbis

• A `free loan’ program in Israel—Maimonides style

• Righteous Gentile to speak at Emanu-El

• East Bay Shorts Dead Sea Scrolls, Satan studies slated at JCC

• Jewish and black women try to bridge cultural gap

• Stanford to feature anniversary exhibit

• `Annie Hall’ goes to college in class on Jewish culture

• Seniors at Creekside find much to discuss through news

• East European trip inspires klezmer music, dance suite

• Fund launched to aid S.F. baby with rare genetic disease

• Anxiety not deterring participants in JCF’s Israel trip

• Parents Place Marin classes start April 1

• School head vows to ban proselytizers

• Jewish Bulletin back then 100 years ago

• South Bay Shorts Panel at Beth David to discuss death issues

• When 3rd-graders bake matzah, it’s a holey experience

• North Bay Shorts Wellness classes start at MJCC

• Brandeis fund-raisers facing own shortages in local membership

• San Francisco Shorts

• South Bay Talmud study group celebrates two big birthdays

• Modern Pesach plagues: AIDS, violence, hunger, anti-Semitism link to Exodus story today

columns

• Tzav: On remembering that God is in the details

opinions & letters

• Wiping out modern-day plagues

• When Moses went to Sinai, he made us Jews

• Let’s emphasize freedom rather than oppression