news & features

• Herzog remembered locally for articulate, gentle style

• Israel, Jewish world mourn death of Chaim Herzog, 78

• Liberal religious groups say they’re ignoring mandate

• Zeal of new JNF head inspired by Jewish awakening

• Ban on women’s prayer groups swells their numbers

• At national leadership mission, Orthodox Jews show diversity

• Top Israeli court: Rescind prize given to allegedly racist reporter

• South Africa Jews divert funds for their own police station

• Anti-traffic protests resumed

• Security ties to be resumed

• Jews doubt probe on Argentina’s past

• Mideast Report

• Hebrew U. professor appointed as justice

• Peace Now claims settlers building more in West Bank

• Think tank names head

• After a steady 25-year decline, Peru Jewish population growing

• World Report

• Poll: Most Palestinians would accept a limited state

• Israeli Holocaust survivors irked by new government funding cut

• JDC strives to stimulate Hungarian Jewry’s revival

• At Pesach, liberation eludes Ethiopian refugees

• Discipline recommended in copter crash that killed 73

• Israel denies Arad has been rescued

• Portugal’s few Jews leading rich lives of culture, faith

• Israeli policy barred school trips to site where 7 were massacred

• Cuomo, `profoundly influenced’ by Jews, to speak here

• Millions `beat a path’ to Israel’s Conservative schools

• Auschwitz escapee to help mark Yom HaShoah here

• East Bay Shorts Ethical wills topic of class at Berkeley synagogue

• Artful garden: BRJCC folk art students plan makeover

• Rabbis call on Netanyahu to cease Har Homa project

• Kosher cow brains help pioneer CT-scan technology

• At Marin event, teens learn how cool it is to be a Jew

• Laughs, but no Duck Soup, served at Groucho’s seder

• Militias’ numbers drop while violence rises, ADL finds

• South Bay Shorts May 4 talk by survivor

• North Bay Short Independence events May 6 in Sonoma

• Koret House: family solace, volunteer opportunities

• Holocaust memorial set in San Jose

• Survivor slates speeches throughout the Bay Area

• Citywide Hillel mulls tactics to lure commuter students

• Four to be inducted in Hebrew U.‘s new Hall of Fame

• San Francisco Shorts JCFYoung Leadership dinner set for May 1

• From Germany to Jewry: Convert examines heritage

• Seder links experiences of Israelites to modern emigres

• 100 years later, BJE is an antidote to assimilation

• News Analysis: Netanyahu is still dogged by scandal that won’t quit

columns

• Hol-Hamoed Pesach: On questioning and Judaism

opinions & letters

• Netanyahu has work to do

• American Jews’ support of Israel is on shaky ground

• U.S. Jews: Be careful how you talk to policy-makers