news & features

• Congressional bickering thwarts racism resolution

• A son’s mourning, a survivor’s life top book awards

• Israeli billionaire hosts fund-raiser in Hollywood for Barak, centrists

• Proposed U.S. budget may slice foreign-aid package for Mideast

• Mideast Report 33 parties sign up for May election

• Arab MK running for premier to highlight minority concerns

• Report slams Israel’s care of mentally ill survivors

• Israel cracks down on Palestinian actions in Jerusalem

• Most Israelis favor Lebanon withdrawal

• Opportunity for study in Africa, Israel

• Mossad leader raps plan to promote sex offender

• Yugoslav Jews flock to Budapest to escape bombing

• Big seders going global

• Hebrew-savvy guide dogs help Israelis find new freedom

• President extends greetings for Pesach

• E.U. gives Arafat a high card in statehood gamble

• Israel plan to aid Albanians delayed

• Serbia and Iraq forging military alliance, report says

• World Report Needy survivors to receive U.S. aid

• Poverty fosters anti-Semitism, Duma member says here

• Catholic teens dip into Jewish traditions at S.F. seder

• Yom HaShoah service in S.F. will mark voyage of St. Louis

• Exhibit on war rescuer commemorates Yom HaShoah

• Expert on genocide to speak in Bay Area

• Donations sought for Kosovo relief

• Niece of Edith Stein to talk in San Rafael

• Film details Jewish laborers’ efforts against the Nazis

• Gray Davis, Wiesenthal Center sue German companies

• Older singles hone shmooze skills in Marin

• Yom HaShoah event planned in San Rafael

• S.F. firm files suit against Holocaust-era French banks

• Workshop focuses on aging parents and spirituality

• Child survivor to share his story at Holocaust memorial service

• Texas militia expert will take helm of S.F.-based ADL

• Needy emigres at UCSF/Mount Zion qualify for state aid

• 300 women transform meaning of Passover at seder

• 3 San Franciscans beg for change in homeless plight

• Federation grants $25,500 to ‘new Zionist’ programs

• Israel won’t admit most Falash Mura, envoy says in S.F.

• Jews back Kosovo attack, citing Holocaust

• Mass suffering in the Balkans troubles local survivors

columns

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opinions & letters

• Genocide, the Jews and Kosovo

• Two kind souls rekindle memories of Passovers past

• For married men only—a new malady at Pesach