news & features

• Let’s not forget Tisha B’Av, a day for Jewish memory

• Convicted spy Pollard rejects prison visit from Israeli official

• Alleged swastika artist arrested

• Islamic terrorist groups building organizations in U.S.

• Judge lets Nation of Islam suit proceed against N.Y. lawmakers

• New U.S. religious freedom bill would define `undue hardship’

• Australian Jew wins back $150,000 from Swiss bank

• Questions surface about New York envoy’s English

• Reform woman allowed to join religious council

• Australian church now pro-Jewish

• Palestinian Web site denies Wall is Temple remnant

• Lives of marketplace bomb victims intersect in death

• Mideast Report

• Rash of Swiss anti-Semitic incidents includes threats

• World Report

• Sale of S.F. cross rattles deniers of Armenian genocide

• Shoah is the century’s `great chasm,’ says new director of Holocaust Center

• Welfare-to-work requires `cultural shift,’ panelists say

• Longtime JNF director Stanley Bresh is moving on

• Parkinson’s fails to squelch artistry of a former scientist

• Undersheriff serves rural north: `It’s a special calling’

• Mideast compromise is vital, says German envoy in S.F.

• East Bay Shorts Adults’ Torah class will begin in Berkeley Aug. 17

• North Bay Shorts Jewish men’s retreat near Ukiah planned

• Swig kids learn about tzedakah on the streets and shelters of S.F.

• Departing Israeli consul: `The message has changed’

• Rabbi returns to his synagogue in S.F. after suing it

• Chabad feeds Jewish souls with outreach for Shabbat offerings

• UAHC’s new Camp Newman opens with songs, Torah, VIPs

• Chassidic rebbe revisits Bay Area to promote unity

• Future of camp, school hazy JEC workers axed but stay as volunteers

• Masada online Parents glued to Webcast of East Bay teens in Israel

• U.S. praised for taking tough stand on Arafat

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• Devarim: Successful prayer does not require rationality

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• Thanks for sharing Masada memories

• Arafat must live up to promises for peace to happen

• Both Arafat and Netanyahu can do more for peace