news & features

• Yiddish book center marks milestone with new home

• Former Swiss bank guard is closer to getting asylum

• Rabbi’s Web site offers advice to prison-bound Jews

• U.S. groups nurture old Russian Jews

• Leave it to Vegas: Israeli’s big Coke art bubbles over

• News Analysis—U.N. session targeting Israel revives charges of bias

• Working to reshape itself, JNF hires new executive

• `Shvitz’ and other things Yiddish make a comeback

• Jewish coalition renews pleas for Bosnian war criminal’s arrest

• News Analysis—Territorial ebb, flow: from clashes to calm

• Anti-Semites nabbed by Jordanian cops

• Bedouin being held in murder of two Israeli women

• Kareem and chief rabbi talk of Buchenwald heroes

• Israelis test new drugs that fight Alzheimer’s

• Albright in Prague finds roots `forever seared into my heart’

• French Catholic Church to apologize for Vichy ties

• Mideast Report

• World Report

• Bank of Canada probes reported link with Nazi gold

• Air space over Eilat reportedly not safe

• Labor chief sees vindication on army mishap probe

• Israeli army chief visits his Jordanian counterpart

• Jewish Agency probe ordered on confiscation of Sephardi IDs

• Beth Israel-Judea bids farewell to exec after 50 years

• JEC’s legal traumas continue in state, federal courts

• Healdsburg woman wins relief from Israeli divorce

• Dancers attending international youth arts fest in Ukraine

• Chochmat HaLev sets meditative weekend

• Actress hosts memorial service for vanished husband

• Author examines old S.F. milieu, writings of Alice B. Toklas’ pal

• Berkeley teen wins coveted Bronfman Youth Fellowship

• Panel asks: Can the Germans and Jews achieve reconciliation?

• Maccabiah tragedy: `We lost the biggest moment of our lives’

• JCC to gut, or raze and rebuild, S.F. site

columns

• Balak: Judaism flourishes in `tents’ of history, home

opinions & letters

• Mourning the Maccabiah tragedy

• The power of laughter—Isaac’s legacy for survival

• Two Jews, three opinions on Red Planet, NASA finds

supplements

• Ignore cosmetic puff, but do use sunscreen

• When remodeling your home, keep the future physical needs in mind

• Putting the `e’ into e-mail: Elders learn computer skills

• Montefiore offers kosher nutrition program at new location

• Where to turn for elderly care aid? There are plenty of good resources

• Rabbis infuse homes for seniors with spirit

• Seniors can resist con men

• Getting hair done never easier at free S.F. senior beauty shop

• Widows and widowers learn to navigate successfully