news & features

• William Berelson, who founded Mideast peace prize, dies at 90

• U.S. will deport former SS guard

• Orthodox and Reform unite in campaign for Pollard

• Right-wing rabbinical group seeks non-Orthodox `converts’

• News Analysis: Recent U.N. charges of torture in Israel spark painful questions

• Swiss bank guard who saved key papers seeks a home

• Cleveland’s tax-based private school vouchers nixed

• Some missing Jewish assets may be found in Israeli banks

• Religious parties warn coalition: Keep religious councils Orthodox

• Mideast Report

• Support for Peres wanes: Labor backs some sovereignty for Palestinians in new platform

• World Report

• Ross spurs new move to break peace-process stalemate

• News Analysis: Historical divisions deepening as Israel nears 50 years

• News Analysis: Battle for Jerusalem is being waged over real estate

• Wiesel rejection and Swiss debate deal blow to funding

• Norwegian warns of impending flareup

• Weighing Bar-On affair charges, Israel’s high court nixes probe

• Israel is second healthiest nation

• Jews debate suicide along with high court

• Israel will rue conversion bill, Reform leader warns

• On Lok offers `one-stop medical shopping’ for seniors

• Local Conservative Jews work to preserve pluralism

• East Bay Shorts BBYO’s membership campaign is scheduled June 1

• Jewish `Renaissance man’ takes Torah, seder to Catholic school

• Jewish mothers share laughter, anecdotes at Mom’s Day event

• Black Muslim’s upcoming talk fuels fires at S.F. State

• `Sunday in Park With Herzl’ May 25 to fete Israel’s birth

• KGO host in Jerusalem: `Every Israeli has an opinion’

• North Bay yeshiva to close if no new funding emerges

• South Bay Short Harris Barton to conduct a Souza march

• North Bay Short

• New Maccabi soccer league playing Sundays, not Shabbat

• San Francisco Shorts JCF seeks funds for flooded areas

• From lockout to fiscal stability, Beth Abraham turns 90

• Beth Sholom will raze, then rebuild its sanctuary

• Rabbi deepens his link with Judaism—in a monastery

columns

• Emor: On acting as if lives of the needy depend on us

opinions & letters

• Will two rabbis make Clinton listen?

• Who’s spying on whom? Find the anti-Israel informant

• Sharansky redeems himself by raising Chinese rights

supplements

• In first person…When Bubbe spoke up, rabbi listened

• In first person…Joys of Ma-Ha-Yah Lodge: mineral pools, Yiddishkeit

• In first person…World according to Minnie: Guilt is a fact

• From Web links to golf links, Internet is a haven for seniors

• Hearing loss means more than always asking, `What?’

• In first person…Still putting the right foot first

• Mysteries of grandma’s hair-care routine explained

• At the Jewish Home, nighttime fun means a better sleep

• In first person…Shared Berlin trip affords new insights into mother

• Planning retirement finances requires building a cushion

• `Life Beyond 85’—an optimistic view researcher