news & features

• Baron Edmond de Rothschild, banker, collector, benefactor, 71

• Jewish leader James Rice dies after years of bettering lives

• Vatican condemns anti-Semitism; Jews still waiting

• Temple Mount shooter’s release rekindles memories

• Artifacts show that ancient temples used donations

• Skeptics ask, will China honor its pledge?

• Clinton-Netanyahu meeting, like peace talks, is chancy

• Pluralism controversy adds spark to UAHC’s biennial

• Sheinbein remanded

• Jewish donors play major role in Democrat fund-raising

• Reform movement embraces 5-point spiritual return

• AJCongress mapping post-209 strategies

• Reform leaders reject interfaith wedding resolution

• Alabama judge: No school prayer

• Registration of Reform temple nixed after Russia signs new law

• 2 Jews claim D.C. police violations

• News Analysis: Assassination still splits Israelis two years after Rabin’s death

• Lithuanian Parliament’s delay affects prosecution of pending war-crimes case

• Mideast Report

• Roadblock to peace lies in a solitary street in Hebron

• MKs say nay to Croatian leader’s visit

• Probers of failed assassination suspect Mossad coverup

• Court rules Sharon misled Begin in 1982

• U.S.-Iraq tensions fuel gas mask splurge

• Holocaust victim sues Swiss government

• Orthodox head blasts pluralism

• Holocaust survivors won’t get money from Swiss foundation

• Orthodox executive to buy a bikini firm

• Weizman apologizes for disparaging Bible comments

• Marking 20, USF’s Jewish studies gets new boost of hope, energy

• As Forward turns 100, Stanford scholar hails its place in history

• Elated emigres hail citizenship with American flags, apple pie

• East Bay Shorts Schindler cancels talk at book fest

• JCC teacher still touching children’s lives after 25 years

• Rabbi’s lawsuit against synagogue dismissed

• Jews applaud end of Mt. Davidson cross controversy

• Groundbreaking ceremony honors two Jewish leaders

• An `under-constructionist’ Jew probes mysticism and renewal

• Headwaters resolution cut down in UAHC committee

• South Bay Short Parents can study sibling relationships

• Visiting Guatemalans see shades of Shoah in their plight

• New rabbi wants to fill Beth Sholom with learning

• Red Diaper kid does Franklin—Kornbluth’s revolutionary trip

• `Old boys’ club names woman as head

• Former scribe says infighting mars memory of late rebbe

• `Those were terrible times’ : 99-year-old recalls Kristallnacht

• Germany to hold commemoration of Kristallnacht

• Judaism now chic in Berlin, 59 years after night of terror

• S.F.‘s ranks as nation’s third largest Jewish federation

columns

• Lech Lecha: When God calls us to begin a fateful journey

opinions & letters

• When will Vatican apologize?

• National service could mend Israel’s secular-religious rift

• Liberal Jews don’t need a hechsher from ultra-religious

supplements

• Jewish Book Month: Jewish readers increase their knowledge, swap notes…and find common ground in B

• Here’s how you can start or join a Jewish book club