news & features

• Volunteer Rose Sampson dies

• Vatican urged to probe fascist loot

• U.S. envoy to Israel slated for top Mideast job in D.C.

• U.S. official dubbed a `vulgar Zionist’

• State Department blasts Israel for anti-Jehovah’s Witness bias

• Knesset members are truly accessible

• Maccabiah bridge collapse blame falls far and wide

• Religious freedom threatened in regions of ex-USSR

• Parents of murdered girls protest killer’s life sentence

• Mideast Report

• Priebke’s prison term too lenient, critics say

• Justice minister was paid head of auto safety lobby

• World Report

• Vote against Golan peace deal mired in politiking accusations

• News Analysis: Twin Mideast tracks: peace push, signs of all-out war

• Argentines cry out over unsolved bombing attacks

• Sale of Mount Davidson Cross likely to end church-state suit

• Family legacy in Stern Grove summer music fest continues

• Area athletes win big at Maccabiah

• JCEF to fund S.F. home for Holocaust history program

• East Bay Shorts Internet to broadcast teens’ Masada ascent

• AJCongress defends domestic partner benefits at U.C.

• UCSF researchers seek subjects for perfect-pitch study

• Beth Am expansion: It’s `a sacred mission’

• Soul-searching journey returns rabbi to Sha’ar Zahav

• On wings of Ezekiel: Berkeley teen wins Bible contest

• New Orthodox shul launched in Berkeley

• North Bay Short MJCC camp will start again in August

• Assembly committee dumps hate crime bill

• Panel on black-Jewish alliance: `It’s always been coming apart’

• Ex-architect paints multimedia Holocaust mini-stories

• San Francisco Shorts Writer of book on teen to tell ground rules

• In a career pickle? Win an S.F. deli

• Anti-Semitism in Switzerland throws gloom on reparations

• How to be a Jewish leader 101: Locals bone up on tradition

• How to file claims for dormant Swiss bank accounts

columns

• Pinhas: Children’s pitfalls remind parents of their own

opinions & letters

• Mt. Davidson solution works for all

• Hoping for change? `Discontinuity’ might bring better results

• American Jews aren’t vanishing, at least physically