news & features

• Gravestone a fitting monument to comic actor’s life

• Death camp doctor dies at 85

• Famed photographer, 80, dies

• Sanctions against Russia urged amid growing Iran ties

• Mexican victims getting relief supplies from Jews

• California stops doing business with Swiss banks

• World Zionist election results mark historic power shift

• Group to inventory Judaica in Eastern Europe, Russia

• Swiss delay payments to Eastern European survivors

• Washington marks Farrakhan’s call for `Day of Atonement’

• Jewish activists are suing police over D.C.‘s Million Man March

• Hold placed on Israel aid pending extradition of teen

• Eastern university to offer Ph.D. in Holocaust history

• Malaysia’s premier accuses Jews of subverting Muslims

• Swiss discover more dormant Holocaust-era accounts

• New Arab houses circling city worry Jews living in Jerusalem

• Canada’s ambassador to Israel to return after Levy’s apology

• Medieval Dubrovnik shul reopens on Rosh Hashanah

• 1,456 Israelis require medical aid on Yom Kippur

• Israel Internet users mostly men; 32 percent say they’re addicted

• Levy may quit as relations with Netanyahu plummet

• Government panel begins investigating Mossad affair

• Test shows Yemenite may not be Sacramento woman’s mom

• Jewish boy’s heart beats in Arab now

• Brother of Netanyahu’s foe may run for Jewish Agency

• World Report

• Vandals hit Israeli Conservative synagogue on Yom Kippur

• Germany to help Baltic Jews

• Court overturns conviction of Jewish Agency ex-chair

• Israel’s lethargic peace movement comes to life again

• Survivors blast decision to free Papon from jail cell during trial

• German firm balking at compensating slave laborers from WW II

• Israeli flu vaccine comes in nose drops

• Stanford whiz becomes second area Jew to net ‘97 Nobel

• Assisi quake disaster prompts Jewish community’s offer of aid

• East Bay Shorts Jewish food fest set for Oct. 19 at Berkeley-Richmond JCC

• AJCongress fights for religious rights in California

• Synagogues in Contra Costa join churches for mitzvah day

• Female vets’ museum lures Novato woman

• South Bay Shorts

• First Frosh at Stanford Hillel service

• Longtime education activist joins state school board

• Teen transforms a crack house

• San Francisco Shorts Grateful Dead sparks new S.F. youth group

• Conversion battle threatens to topple the prime minister

• Liberal rabbis urge congregants to donate to pluralism causes

• Noah’s is going non-kosher—except in Northern Calif.

columns

• Hol Ha-Moed Sukkot: On taking time to relax, treasure simplicity

opinions & letters

• Building a sukkah of peace

• Orthodox women deserve more than a spectator’s role

• U.S. Jews must shift funds to Israel’s pluralistic groups