news & features

• Gumshoe Hal Lipset dies; left mark on Jewish world

• Longtime S.F. Orthodox rabbi, Mayer Frenkel, dies in Maryland

• Toddler dies in S.F. after battling rare genetic disease

• Area anti-poverty group gets boost from Soros funding

• Palestinians at U.N. halt drive for status

• Crosses at Auschwitz removed

• 1977 Denver program could be model for conversions

• In a secret U.S. city, scientists build Jewish ties amid isolation

• Parents can nurture young Jewish feminists at home

• Calif. treasurer suspends moratorium on Swiss banks

• Egg has great fall but lands sunny-side up

• Swiss sanctions delayed; `global’ settlement possible

• Intifada remembered with call to `keep gun on Israel’

• U.S. pushing for a `credible’ redeployment proposal

• Hebrew U. admits Yemenite testing goof

• Ex-MK agrees to head jubilee effort `because I’m crazy’

• Mideast Report

• Survey says half Russian neo-Nazis are young, urban

• Israel’s infancy—news dispatches from 50 years ago: Arabs are vague, Brits refuse aid, but a Jew

• Knesset moves to block census in East Jerusalem

• World Report

• Israel and Turkey meet to bolster defense ties

• Neo-Nazi lectured army, German magazine reveals

• German war-crime trial may be one of country’s last

• As 700,000 head back to work, Israelis debate results of strike

• Ex-leader still says Jews stifled Quebec’s autonomy

• Mossad agent arrested for lying about Syria over past 20 years

• Iraq ready for bio-war despite U.N.‘s efforts

• Czech official restricts access to the country’s files on Nazism

• Meditation, Kabbalah simple, rabbi insists

• JFCS volunteers will distribute hundreds of Chanukah baskets

• Life no longer a puzzle for Marin gamester

• South Bay Short `Mondays at the Temple’ study series starts Jan. 5 at Beth Jacob

• Eager to top record, JCF leader chairs campaign a 2nd time

• Former Berkeley couple says Israeli life is no paradise

• Christmas play forces actors to confront their Jewishness

• Bay Area artist drew on illness for artistic expression

• Israeli nationalists softening, AIPAC head says in S.F.

• San Francisco Shorts Poets to read their contest submissions

• In S.F., Maine senator defends Israel’s commitment to peace

• Kugel, kind acts inspire Jewish Brownie troop

• News Analysis: Showdown for Israel on the peace process

• Reform outlines conversion battle plan

• A 55-year saga: from London blitz to wedded bliss

columns

• Vayishlach: Learning to face adversaries with dignity

opinions & letters

• Bring Jewish singles together

• Why pluralism is amiss: Orthodox rabbi speaks out

• View December as a season of diversity, not dilemma

supplements

• Chanukah Gift Guide