news & features

• Jewish activist Derek Israel dies in raceway crash at 28

• Herbert Katzski, lifelong employee of JDC, dies at 89

• JNF to slash its operations, send more to Israel

• Feinstein fights Israel over plan to export Uzis to U.S.

• New N.Y. Holocaust museum offers personal look at Shoah

• U.S. begins process of revoking ex-Nazi’s citizenship

• Schorr says Times rejected him for a job because he is Jewish

• Morocco won’t play tennis in Jewish state

• Religious persecution measure poses dilemma for Jews

• Jews’ absence at Swiss meetings fuels a new imbroglio

• Trial of Chassidic rabbi canceled, but acrimony persists

• Miami-area Jews dropping in population

• Most medical ethicists back ruling on assisted suicide

• Iran’s missiles may have capability to hit Israel

• U.S. postal workers are denied time off for the High Holy Days

• New battle raging over missing Dead Sea Scrolls data

• Deportation ordered for Lithuanian Nazi in Illinois

• Israeli women protest segregated seating on city buses

• Work begins on river dam to aid Jordan

• Cycle of violence continues: 4 Israelis dead in Lebanon

• Israel lifts internal closure after Albright’s harsh words

• Palestinians held in plot to kill Arafat

• Albright’s Yad Vashem visit marked by tears

• In the wake of criticism, Croatia head won’t visit Israel in the near future

• Mideast Report

• World Report

• Israeli stymied in bid to remove new settlers in eastern Jerusalem

• Israeli envoy’s speech stirs Lithuania havoc

• Reins of Jewish community in Berlin go to young leader

• $34.3 million slated to fight joblessness

• Daylight-saving time ends in Jewish state

• A new Israeli import—class-action, anti-tobacco suits

• German bassist, fired for Hitler `joke,’ sues

• Israel’s teenage volunteers carry on valuable tradition

• Israeli software firms meet needs by training, hiring yeshiva pupils

• $1 million gift will enable more teens to visit Israel

• Czech Jews ask Germany to try Terezin prison guard

• German army may bar extremists

• Jewish Agency helps burned down school

• Sephardic, Mizrahi Jews forge multicultural revival

• S.F. emigre girl wins first prize in national HIAS poster contest

• New Walnut Creek butcher wants to kasher the world

• New S.F. school to teach reading, writing and Torah

• Mitzvah maven Danny Siegel ready to raid Dumpsters

• Presidential pair is at the helm of Marin’s Jewish community

• Disproving naysayers, Schneerson Day School opens

• Technion intern compares 3 cultures while in Bay Area

• Senators’ Bible teacher preaches personal ethics in public life

• South Bay Shorts

• Grown-ups can go back to school, too, via Lehrhaus

• North Bay Short Kol Shofar to hold three holiday retreats

• Yom Kippur scheduling conflict settled harmoniously for bands

• San Francisco Short Actress Almagor to screen her film here

• From rescuer, Berkeley survivor learned the power of metaphor

• Tough Bay Area transitions: Self-esteem soars for Jews freed from welfare

• News Analysis: Albright visit leaves Israel, Palestinians disheartened

columns

• Kee Tavo: On ascribing human emotions to God

opinions & letters

• Netanyahu’s vital goodwill gesture

• Albright’s new approach is both blunt and empathic

• Albright has adopted myopic approach of James Baker

supplements

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