news & features

• Netanyahu’s U.S. diplomatic selections stir rivalries

• Swiss checks may go out soon

• Poll: U.S. Jews see anti-Semitism as ongoing threat

• Sharansky is latest victim of Deep Blue’s chess skills

• Orthodox women moving toward religious leadership

• Swiss guard tours offices of Spielberg

• French elections fail to quell fears over far-right party

• News Analysis: Iran’s new president not likely to alter position toward Israel

• Split vote in Canada spawns a patchwork Parliament

• Women’s prize given to Jew, Suha Arafat

• Hatred of Arabs rising among teens in Israel

• Swiss reel as new revelations shatter its historic myths

• Russian church and rightists blame Jews for Jesus film

• Insurer covered SS for death-camp sites

• Mideast Report

• 10,000 war dead expected in 1967

• Netanyahu peace plan keeps Israeli hold on Jerusalem

• Palestinian Authority accused in deaths of Arab land dealers

• Russian Orthodoxy condemns vandalism

• Berlin’s Jews pick leaders

• Canada trying to deport citizen accused as SS guard in Latvia

• Court in Haifa recognizes lesbian couple as a family

• Labor blasts Likud on its first birthday

• Former army chief Barak wins big in Labor elections

• Palestinians launch eastern Jerusalem building boom

• Montreal daily assailed for Jewish mob-member focus

• Palestinian offical claims Israeli gum is aphrodisiac

• Israel tour to transformation: Youth leader looks back

• Patriarchy took toll on women and Jews, scholar says

• East Bay Shorts Day school marks 5 years

• Emanu-El now hosts Shabbat in Mill Valley

• Reading Book of Ruth, local converts publicly reaffirm commitment

• Jewish values, madness and love punctuate memoir

• Aptos rabbi celebrates 20 years of growth with Temple Beth El

• It takes a Jewish soul to be Jewish, panelists concur

• Life of gay German Jewish sexologist honored in S.F.

• South Bay Short Reno trip set for June 22

• JFCS head to do double duty as synagogue president

• Israeli commemorative stamps get seal of approval at S.F. expo

• Anonymous flier denounces hate speech at S.F. State

• San Francisco Shorts Bereavement group will meet June 10

• Conservative rabbi blasts `Judaism that excludes others’

• N.Y. Orthodox group opening osteopathic med school in S.F.

• Major leader of S.F. Jewry, Sinton dies

• East Bay federation plunges into pluralism battle

• Codes tell past, present, future: Book claiming scientific proof of God draws ire

columns

• Bemidbar: On hearing the still, small voice of God

opinions & letters

• Bolster efforts to nourish pluralism

• Shavuot’s dairy meals give hands-on Jewish experience

• Shavuot special: the Top Ten List of Jewish values