news & features

• Pluralism spurs U.S. donors to seek more control over federation allocations

• Jewish point man Eizenstat gets new diplomatic post

• San Diego synagogue painted with anti-Semitic graffiti

• Dalai Lama’s envoys explore Jewish schools in N.Y., Chicago

• United Nations approves report detailing anti-Semitism of Hamas

• State Department rejects appeal for Vanunu’s freedom from jail

• Brandeis U. to offer master’s in Jewish fund-raising

• Arafat should return Nobel, says rabbi

• IDF officers under fire for gambling on Holocaust trip

• Women, men pray at Wall, hit by trash

• Barak plans to form teams to parallel government

• Swiss legislator urges payback to Jews for aiding Jewish refugees

• Independent panel to view claims for Swiss accounts

• Vitamin B-12 levels tied to memory loss, Israeli researcher says

• Family’s fatal crash sparks traffic protest

• Mideast Report Legislators queried on alleged Mafia ties

• Foes of conversion bill parting ways over compromise

• Report tying Peron to Nazis going public after battle

• For first time in a long time, rays of hope for peace glimmer

• High Court may rule next week on whether to indict Netanyahu

• Helping disabled Israeli teenagers become b’nai mitzvah

• World Report Jewish group gives $1.3 million in Russia

• Fifty-year-old man gets first artificial heart in Israel

• Israeli police crack driving test scam

• Meningitis outbreak hits Gaza, West Bank

• Pope urges Polish-Jewish reconciliation, amid doubts

• Hamas says it murdered soldier to pressure Israel on prisoners

• Palestinian murder suspect loses his Israeli VIP status

• Switzerland trying to play up first Zionist Congress

• Palestinians `jealous’ of Israeli democracy

• Labyrinth at medical center designed to soothe souls

• S.F. muralist to paint a Jewish day school in Moscow

• East Bay Short Fremont teen writes an essay worth $300

• 24-volume set ferrets out facts in Bible

• Leadership award set for Bettie Laven

• Couple creates Torah-study Web site to reform Reform

• South Bay Shorts South Peninsula volunteers to be honored at June 24 event

• Yiddishe Yippie’s life bared in biography

• German anti-Semitism thrives, says Stanford scholar

• Rabbi panelists spar on who is a `repository of Torah’

• San Francisco Shorts Plates will spin in summer juggling class for kids ages 8 to 12

• Jerry Yanowitz: from counterculture to federation head

• Secret cable from Israel’s S.F. envoy sees peril in convert bill

• Jews in Germany today: Photos show sharp contradictions

columns

• Naso: On blessing children with kindness, gift of peace

opinions & letters

• Jews still may not feel at home

• World is imposing a triple standard on state of Israel

• American Jews’ silence on Oslo Accords is deafening

supplements

• Bay Area Jews visit Cuban shul for first bar mitzvah in 20 years

• When Zayde did weddings, I was recruited

• A parent’s challenge: kids-only bat mitzvah

• Couple wed in Wild West town of pioneering ancestors

• Lost in a traditional service? Guidebook answers questions

• Gifts for wedding attendants should be thoughtful but fun

• Let them eat cake—It’s an age-old tradition

• N.Y. kabbalist combs ketubot for mistakes

• After `I do’s,’ many marrieds face `post-wedding blues’

• Evil eye and other superstitions lead to Jewish customs

• Adult b’not mitzvah: I kvetched but did it

• On most sacred day of year, Chinese-born girl became ours

• Create a wish list—and register selections

• Romantic getaways beckon honeymooners

• Creative transportation adds style to nuptials

• Grandfather’s stance at the brit: He’s always looking heavenward

• Careful planning and packing help ease a couple’s getaway

• Shabbat rekindles the spiritual flame