news & features

• Australia urged to indict 64 suspected war criminals

• Lesbian rabbi asks: Can mainstream Jews embrace us?

• Holocaust memorial may mend ties between Greece and Israel

• News Analysis: Clinton’s meeting with Labor icons sends clear message

• Pollard asks to go `home’

• Israeli firm sanctioned for Cuban dealings

• Federations consider boosting support for day schools

• Don’t demonize Christian right, GOP leader says here

• State insurance commissioner vows to aid survivors

• Pro-Israel donors and PACs favor Democrats by 2 to 1

• AIPAC 2nd most potent interest group, Fortune says

• Swiss banks set to begin payout of dormant accounts

• Policeman implicated in Argentine bombing

• Israelis annoyed, not scared, in latest Saddam crisis

• Amal, Hezbollah violence kills 8 Lebanese civilians

• Possible indictment adds to woes of former top Netanyahu official

• Debate on prisoners’ pardons mars Israel’s anniversary plans

• Sadat’s historic visit to Israel in 1977 still elicits awe and joy

• Mideast Report

• Australian athletes suing Israeli officials

• Suspected Lithuanian war criminal dies before trial

• World Report

• Redeployment adds heat to Netanyahu fire

• Netanyahu offers referendum on primaries

• News dispatches from 50 years ago tell partition story

• Russia won’t ban Nazi demonstrations

• Security heightened in Old City after killing of yeshiva student

• Czech survivors want compensation from Germany

• Warsaw Jewish community group seeking younger members

• Israelis tour Bay Area to better women’s lives at homea

• Yiddish music maven sees mamaloshen in mainstream

• Pius XII deceived Nazis about allegiances, author says

• East Bay Shorts Big Brothers, Sisters are needed to befriend East Bay Jewish kids

• S.F. jail chaplain takes new pulpit at Chico synagogue

• Holiday food programs receive money from Koret

• Globetrotting Israeli consul general settles into S.F. post

• South Bay Shorts Child-rearing class to begin in Belmont

• Berkeley woman’s photos capture infancy of Jewish state

• North Bay Short Jewish writers’ class to start in Menlo Park

• Clinician urges Jewish community to reach out to people with AIDS

• Mother Goose gets Jewish touch at Beth Am’s program for tots

• San Francisco Shorts Beth Sholom will host new gay chavurah

• Kids learn power of puppy love at Compassion to Animals Day

• No Israel fanfare on anniversary

• 50 years after U.N. approval, area Zionists recall fight for Jewish state

• Drama of partition vote still excites U.N. official

columns

• Toledot: Forgiveness lesson comes from unlikely source

opinions & letters

• Israel’s humble beginnings

• The fraying of America as superpower threatens Israel

• Conference raises questions on fight for Israeli pluralism

supplements

• In first person…`The Lord is One and I will be 2’—child’s creative twist to prayer

• In first person…Yellow star on bakery window generates frank talk on Holocaust

• Whimsical dreidels and menorot catch children’s eyes

• Book Reviews: Gently priced books deliver Chanukah message to kids

• Tzedakah, gifts of self bring Chanukah message home

• In first person…Girl gives impromptu Judaism lesson to fellow tourists on a Yosemite tram

• In first person…On Dec. 24 ambulance journey, kids sing out with Jewish pride