news & features

• Noted Bible scholar dies in Jerusalem at 92

• Furor in City of Brotherly Love over mayor’s bid to Farrakhan

• Jews claim insurers didn’t pay off policies

• U.S. point man on Swiss banks warns against class-action suits

• Alleged Treblinka guard living in Illinois loses U.S. citizenship

• Liberal rabbis applaud conversion proposal

• CJF doubles money to Israel’s liberal religious groups

• Thousands press lawmakers to restore cuts in benefits

• Christians and `Messianics’ appropriating Passover seder

• AJCongress to host advocacy conference

• Congress re-examines foreign aid to Egypt

• Clashes explode as exhibit on German army opens

• Is Netanyahu kid getting runaround from top school?

• Private eye begins publicizing IDs of Canada’s suspected Nazis

• Discovery of murdered soldier spurs threats by Israel

• Church, Muslim officials battle over church access

• S. African rabbi urges `anarchy’ end

• Insurer will probe claims owed to Jews

• Court balks at halting traffic on Shabbat

• News Analysis: Netanyahu’s crisis could force him to seek national unity government

• News Analysis: At center of Netanyahu’s legal woes sits Aryeh Deri

• Mideast Report

• Israeli economic dip continues in 1997

• Pope rewards relief group in Sarajevo

• Israel eyes $300 million budget cuts

• Russian envoy claims mob threats distorted

• World Report

• Speculation heating up about unity government

• Students protest anti-Sephardic textbook

• Compromise reached in Israel over burial of Russian emigres

• Court stops release of convicted military embezzler

• Plan launched to save Golan Heights wolves

• Palestinian pact with E.U

• Israelis indifferent to conversion bill, liberal Judaism

• News Analysis: Tensions thaw as Israel, Turkey build new relations

• Zionist Haggadah recalls pioneers’ return to homeland

• East Bay Short Women’s spirituality focus of local group

• Minister calls for grassroots black-Jewish alliances

• Homeless advocates at synagogue search for solutions

• Vintners downplay kashrut to lure Israeli wine drinkers

• `Stateless’ Jewish author revives memories of China

• Heirlooms, recipes whet appetites at heritage feast

• Talmud inspired Goldman Prize recipient

• Feminists speak up for nontraditional Jewish families

• Tawonga bereavement camp: helping restore a balance

• AJCongress supports media access to state prisoners

• South Bay Short Russian fair needs items

• Black SFSU professor offering a `fresh lens’ to study Holocaust

• S.F-based federation’s UJA cut grabs national spotlight

• North Bay Shorts Gershwin is concert focus

• Former Kaiser worker sues for religious discrimination

• University of Judaism will honor pair on Mother’s Day

• Beyond Passover: California kosher wines come of age

• Matzah not rising, but prices are in Bay Area

• News Analysis: Can Netanyahu survive if indicted?

columns

• Metzora: On neglecting morals, ritual obligations

opinions & letters

• Let one who is hungry eat

• New flavors essential to spice up timeless seder story

• Remembering the Holocaust, celebrating the Exodus