news & features

• Reform rabbis adopt platform supporting aliyah, Hebrew study

• Writer-director of Jewish plays disappears from a golf course

• Potential immigrants win one-year delay in cutoffs

• Jew gets 10 years in bomb attempt

• Ben-Elissar cable on Albright sparks anger in the U.S.

• News Analysis—Religious Jews hail high court ruling; others worried

• African-American Jew named synagogue president

• Reform rabbis urged to support, conduct gay unions

• Singer slams threats of right-winger

• Netanyahu attacks domestic violence

• Many Holocaust survivors may get new reparations

• Hungarian Holocaust survivors to get free dental care at clinic

• Tensions still high in West Bank, as accusations fly on both sides

• Mideast Report

• News Analysis: Isolated Netanyahu surrounded by foes in own Cabinet

• Two women married by rabbi in Tel Aviv ceremony

• Soldier killed in spat with Israeli comrade

• Slovak Jews charge government with Nazi sympathies

• Israel MKs questioned about links to the Mob

• News Analysis: Deal on conversion bill unlikely if rhetoric is any sign

• Israel mulls shift of monument

• German firm hires Berkeley historian to probe Nazi ties

• Cry for us, Argentina—Did Eva Peron hide Nazi loot?

• Once-quiet Netanya turns into Mob town

• Two East Bay volunteers win federation’s Lesser Awards

• Sherith Israel starts chavurah for gays and lesbians

• Home for Jewish Parents breaks ground at new site

• East Bay Shorts New CCJCC class looks at Jews and Muslims in modern world

• Kopp hails attack on hate crimes by Senate committee

• Jewish Bulletin wins 3 journalism awards

• Two rescuers of S.F. woman honored by Yad Vashem

• Bay Area’s largest singles group reaching out to new Americans

• South Bay Shorts Belmont-based Peninsula JCC seeks first-grade girls for Brownies

• JCEF grant helps Mid-Peninsula school get new home

• `What is our purpose?’ JCF head asks at annual meeting

• Internet expert outlines the attack on computer hate

• MJCC emergency team riding to the rescue

• Envoy in S.F. says Switzerland `ready to apologize’ for war role

• JEC’s bank accounts near empty, state says

• Religious freedom ruling angers Jews

• No July 4 paper

• Student rabbis in S.F.: Rebuffed as Conservatives, 2 lesbians look to Reform

columns

• Shelach Lecha: On fearing to enter the Promised Land

opinions & letters

• Cracks in the U.S. religious wall

• A do-it-yourself Torah—Attitude replaces theology

• Are we not all brothers? Drop ultra-religious myths

supplements

• 50ish singles expanding databases

• Singles developing camaraderie through projects that help needy

• Jewish single parents network creates extended family

• Singles group offers romantic-outing bargains