news & features

• Bat mitzvah student killed while at Junior Olympics of the AAU

• Chess expert, author Walter Korn dies in Burlingame

• Galilee Orchestra joint project of Israeli Arabs, Jews

• Orthodox leave table in Mazon’s anti-hunger appeal

• U.S. court in Maryland rules Easter a secular holiday

• Arab, Jewish interns forge relations away from Mideast

• School defamed kids, Alabama Jews claim

• New guidelines codify U.S. workers’ religious freedom

• Klinghoffer family settles long legal battle with PLO

• MEPFA’s expiration forces symbolic PLO suspension

• Israeli inventors setting new records in patent offices

• Once-thriving Jewish population keeps weak hold on Italian port

• Stalin’s designated Jewish area may drop `Jewish’ from name

• Mideast Report

• World Report

• French court places travel ban on alleged war criminal

• Hostages freed at IDF jail after last week’s protest

• News Analysis: Time will tell what Ross accomplished in mission

• American women who marry Israeli men face a culture clash

• Israeli soldier killed as fighting escalates in southern Lebanon

• Rights group slams treatment of Arabs

• Israeli-Arab sojourn to Syria takes unexpected twist

• Priebke ordered to stay in jail

• Silicon Valley school readies emigres for workplace in Russian

• Authors merge Kabbalah and movement in worship

• New U.C. Davis Hillel head thrives on impassioned debate

• Camp day draws 1,100 to Los Gatos for sun, fun

• New translation does justice to reclusive early feminist writer

• Friends of JCC disbands, still berating center leaders

• GTU professor explodes myths about demise of Yiddish language

• On 1st trip abroad, Cubans boost Jewish know-how here

• Termites trigger plan for Polish-style shul

• Climbing, equestrian center give Jewish summer camp new spin

• South Bay Shorts PJCC will offer film appreciation

• Czech Torah seized by Nazis gets new life in West Marin

• North Bay Shorts Volunteers are needed for reading program

• Current tragedies weigh on local Tisha B’Av event

• News Analysis: Wall strife signals religious crossroads

• `We are from the same time’ Parallel paths link 2 Polish Shoah survivors in S.F.

columns

• VaEthanan: Reach God

opinions & letters

• A Wall shouldn’t divide us

• U.S. has everything to gain by decisive Mideast role

• Israelis exacting their own revenge against terrorism

supplements

• When the rabbi’s daughter marks bat mitzvah ceremony

• Determined twins conquer hurdles to chant from the Torah together

• Disabled adults come of age and celebrate b’nai mitzvah

• Some matchmakers see themselves as messengers of God

• Through many centuries, rings declare loyalty and love

• What’s in a name? Changing, or not, poses dilemma

• Tying the knot with trembling hands in an earthquake

• `Journey of a Lifetime’ textbook guides children through lifecycles

• Laws of family purity help uphold tradition

• Goodbye chopped liver—Party fare goes light, colorful

• The `best boy’ meets `best girl’ in a Lubavitcher-style shidduch

• The get addresses remarriage under Jewish religious law

• Wedding deals and discounts

• Negotiating the murky waters of in-law relationships

• Today’s couples are blending tradition and innovation ...in egalitarian weddings tailor-made via rit

• Tradition still plays a large role in modern weddings

• Mom’s homemade cake for son puts fancy icing on the wedding

• Travel packages ease path to Holy Land b’nai mitzvah