news & features

• Evangelical advocates are proselytizing, not `targeting’ Jews

• Kansas City Maccabi Games attract 800 contenders

• Illinois soon to get its first mikveh for non-Orthodox men, women

• New Jersey town bows to pressure against Farrakhan

• Indyk confirmation raises embassy issue

• Delay of terror list decried by activists

• Clinton chomps on couscous, quaffs Maccabi beer

• Federal government leads on religious freedom at work

• Billy Crystal, others boycott Israel party over pluralism issue

• Arafat kisses, makes up with Hamas, Islamic Jihad

• Israel Cabinet cuts budget by $650 million

• Panel on conversion eyes end to deadlock

• Swiss Zionism centennial tainted by current troubles

• Mideast Report

• Lebanon violence ignites as Syrian peace track warms

• World Report

• Half of settlement residents may defy leaving if forced

• Two Israeli border police jailed for kicking Arabs

• Israeli air force chief warns of challenges

• Jerusalem woman said fit to stand trial for `pig posters’

• Hamas official urges Palestinians to `stalk’ settlers

• Maccabiah probe delay angers Australian Jews

• Israeli-Palestinian relations warming as sanctions ease up

• Ben-Gurion’s diaries are available online

• Ministry publishes siddur without prayer for the state

• Empty graves support tales of stolen Yemenite kids

• Greenbrae teen, grandmother to return to site of obliteration

• Parents Place schedules S.F. classes for September

• 2 local teens discover panoply of Judaism at Brandeis U.

• East Bay Short Singles theater party set in Walnut Creek

• 1,800 educators seek ideas, inspiration at conference here

• Shadows of Shoah darken author’s inner struggles

• Jew-by-choice postpones aliyah to work for governor

• South Bay Shorts

• `Judaism never monolithic,’ says Israel pluralism advocate

• Court settlement will oust JEC school from building

• San Francisco Short

• Bar mitzvah helps last Jew in family turn life around

• Burlingame Ukrainian woman fleeing anti-Semitism gets asylum

• With food stamp loss, emigres in Bay Area worry about hunger

• Emotionally charged issue for heirs Area Jews join frustrating hunt for names on Swiss list

columns

• Ekev: Why we thank God for providing us with food

opinions & letters

• We must feed the hungry

• Netanyahu, not Albright, has power to negotiate peace

• Israeli premier’s view of U.S. Jews could bring trouble