news & features

• Beat poet Ginsberg left legacy of Jewishness—from a distance

• Rebecca Shulman dies at 100; past national Hadassah leader

• Debate over Swiss holdings focuses on gold amounts

• Jailed Hamas leader’s deportation possible

• Netanyahu draws and deflects non-Orthodox anger

• Israel trade boosts state job market

• U.S. joins, Israel quits crusade against former Nazi physician

• Netanyahu finds friends among evangelical Christians

• Specter asks Reno probe of Arafat link

• Solar partnership

• The only U.S. mutual fund investing in Israel is closing

• Top cop fines self for illegal cell call

• Most Jewish Israelis back Palestinian state

• Arabs are denied residency rights in Jerusalem, rights group says

• Prize for Ethiopian news story rescinded after subjects protest

• Brazil panel investigating gold believed smuggled into country

• Conflicts surface from the ancient ruins at Moshav Tzipori

• `Crypto-Jews’ reshape Portugal

• Turkey still building Israel ties

• Mideast Report

• Hezbollah network operating in Canada, official says

• Fire erupts in Israeli military facility

• World Report

• Assassination-conspiracy theorist sparks hostilities at Hebrew U.

• Police aim to complete probe of attorney general case soon

• Europeans urge plan to revive peace talks

• Artist’s home a showpiece for cutting-edge creations

• Battle erupts over French Jews’ claims to exhibited art

• Industry meets art

• Park plan breaths new life into Tzipori, `city of mosaics’

• Is matzah the key to Soviet Jews’ survival?

• Ukraine aid halted amid scam charge

• Revived Russian shuls seek to stem membership losses

• Camp Guide

• Gault-Millau guide offers glimpse of Israeli cuisine

• S.F.‘s Jewish Museum back on track after a design snafu

• Leaner, hipper ORT streamlines its organization

• Jewish 209 foes regroup to continue fight for equality

• Young children should learn Shoah basics, educator insists

• Church-rebuilding teaches students to break down walls

• JFCS volunteers delivering Seder Sacks to the needy

• Pesach: a time for cooking, sharing and storytelling

• Zen, socialism and veggies to punctuate ATJT seder

• South Bay Short

• Auschwitz diaries combat classroom revisionist rhetoric

• Bay Area spiritual leaders back rights for strawberry workers

• North Bay Shorts Sonoma County comics, Hold the Mayo, to perform

• Husband was `one-track-minded’ on peace, Leah Rabin says here

• Jewish leaders join welfare reform blast

• Former Petaluma rabbi gets 3 years for molesting a child

• Meditation: Jewish-style…550 contemplate at S.F. conference

• News Analysis: Is Netanyahu forging compromise on final-status talks?

columns

• Tazria: On caring ritually for one’s body and spirit

opinions & letters

• Nourishing the Jewish soul

• Warning to Orthodox group: Build bridges, not walls

• U.S. Jews shouldn’t impede country’s peacemaking