news & features

• Lines grow at Pesach bakery

• Lewinsky’s latest confession: Her matzah balls are ‘inedible’

• Renovated Concord hotel will still have Jewish flavor

• Jewish cooking preserves heritage, as well as recipes

• Specter hopes to head U.S. delegation to Iran

• Open door at Pesach to healthier nutrition

• Iranian Jews in U.S. recall their own difficult exodus as they cling to heritage, building new commu

• Pesach breakfasts needn’t be afflicting

• Rabbis head for gulf, Bosnia with matzah for military

• Older people can prolong life to mark Passover, study shows

• Former ‘Temple to the Stars’ now home to Iranian Jews

• Cowboying makes horse sense to Jewish wrangler

• You can share rituals, cross the Red Sea online at virtual Passover seders

• Mideast Report Yitzhak Shamir quits Likud, joins Herut

• Sweden clears WWII record

• World Report Britain adds names to seized-assets list

• Cheating students take advantage of Israel’s lax system

• Held in Israel, Sheinbein indicted on charge of first-degree murder

• Deri’s conviction adds fuel to Israel’s religious-secular fire

• After 4 years in German jail, American neo-Nazi deported

• Celebrity ketubah on display at MJCC

• Poland names ambassador for diaspora

• Tension flaring as Israel cuts water supplies to Jordan

• Protestors urge Farben to dissolve

• Conversion institute opens amid doubts

• Bedouins fleeing Egypt forced back

• Primakov rebukes anti-Semites after Netanyahu visit

• Israel praises Palestinians for helping foil terrorists

• Israel revokes travel permits of 3 Palestinian officials

• U.K. JNF declares autonomy

• Statehood issue leads to threats

• Jews in former Soviet Union no longer see Pesach as an allegory of their own oppression and exodus

• U.S. rabbi brings Kosovo clerics together to sign pact on dialogue

• Buns make Jews hot and cross

• Vatican criticism prompts summit

• Cheaper matzah at Lucky’s

• Liberals lure Israeli voters with cheap flights

• New cantor credits vocation to teacher at Hebrew school

• Ex-Bay Area man with mission works to revive Slovak Jewry

• Postal worker wins anti-Semitism ruling in Petaluma

• Sixth-graders mount Ancient Egyptian Fair at Mid-Peninsula day school

• S.F. activist sets her sights on rousing Israeli voters

• Holocaust refugee turns his family memories to fiction

• ‘Guarded’ matzah available at Chabad

• Marriage advice for the betrothed at JFCS offices in Palo Alto

• Israelis share breast cancer breakthroughs in S.F.

• Greens in Fort Mason will be the setting of ATJT’s seder

• Another kind of enslavement plagues abused women

• ADL: Anti-Semitic acts rise slightly in U.S., Bay Area

• Music series at BRJCC

• Jerusalem battle simmers as Arafat seeks U.S. aid

• Look who’s coming to the seder: Local families invite strangers to break matzah

columns

• Tzav: On not passing over the chance to give thanks

opinions & letters

• Open our eyes to oppression

• Seeing ourselves as oppressed can be a real stretch

• News flash! Deadly plagues force Egyptians to free Jews

• Does matzah remind you of slavery or stewed prunes?