news & features

• U.S. visit convinces Knesset whip to vote for pluralism

• Toronto artist brings Rosh Hashanah to Jews in India

• 5 Orthodox Yale students pay tuition but may still sue

• Poll finds U.S. Jews want more pressure on Netanyahu

• B’nai B’rith soundbites hit airwaves

• News Analysis: UIA to review how donations from U.S. are funneled to Israel

• Press halts book on Jew who beat Marco Polo to China

• Sh’ma rocks N.Y. arena as 20,000 end Talmud study

• AIPAC’s role on the line as Supreme Court prepares to hear case charging improper political activiti

• 29 Senators support Feinstein on Uzi ban

• Reform Jews criticize Clinton on land mines

• Confusion reigns over how to help poor Palestinians

• President delivers new year’s greetings

• Adam-Eve story is true—ancient snakes did have legs

• Mideast Report

• Israel Radio says IDF is preparing for battle

• Barak issues apology for Sephardim abuse

• Vindicated, Ehud Olmert may challenge Netanyahu

• Ethiopians willing to integrate by marrying other ethnicities

• World Report

• Can Weizman free Druze?

• German court to rule on Nazi slave laborers

• Israel’s Jewish majority likely to last for at least 20 more years

• Russian Jews troubled by law that restricts religious freedom

• News Analysis: Peace talks teeter as Israel plans to expand settlements

• Israeli wants to sell real estate to Arabs

• Hamas leader may have been freed in prisoner swap

• French Jews hail bishops apology

• Trial to dredge up France’s Nazi past

• Cemetery restored, damaged week later

• Argentina’s Jews face new crisis, JDC speaker says in S.F.

• S.F. 3rd-graders will mark 7 new years’ celebrations

• Author, hypnotherapist takes helm as Antioch rabbi

• East Bay Shorts Children’s classes scheduled at CCJCC

• Threads of Chinese and Russian intermingle on handmade tallit

• Intern for Peace to tackle Jewish-Arab relations in Israel

• Chabad woman is S.F.‘s first Orthodox police captain

• China’s historic Jews, synagogue honored in `Silk Road’ exhibit

• Widow-widower group helps bereaved look ahead

• South Bay Short New class examines early Jewish kings

• Nascent Sonoma Jewish group reaches out with forums, films

• San Francisco Shorts Volunteers needed to answer questions

• Patriarch Richard Swig: `He was just larger than life’

• New Jews approaching Holy Days with awe

• Long after the war, memories of traumas and joys still well up

columns

• Shabbat Shuvah: Master of the universe is on our side

opinions & letters

• Welcome new congregants home

• We need to apply High Holy Day lessons all year long

• Will Albright enter a yeshiva? Take Jewish pundit quiz