news & features

• Survivor Claire Nuer, conflict-resolution expert, dies at 66

• Madeleine Haas Russell was an activist until the end

• Jewish exec’s body found

• Swiss settlement attorneys deny cheating their clients

• Federations prepare to launch ‘new era’ with merger

• Mideast Report Poll: Israelis back Palestinian state

• World Report U.S. envoy hosts seder in Moscow

• Kosovar Jews share seder with Netanyahu

• Uzbekistan ends visa crisis for emissary from Chabad

• Fleeing to Hungary, Yugoslav Jews hold lonely seder

• CSU-Hayward talks to highlight comics, ‘Florentene’

• Religious rioting ends over Nazareth mosque

• Paris branch head of top British bank may have aided Nazis

• Yeltsin backs Palestinian state

• British campus in Middle East bans Jewish books

• Jewish roots of composer Johann Strauss emerging

• Moscow bomb blast possibly tied to prior shul attack

• Organizations seek donations to aid refugees

• Conversion proposal ignites fresh debate

• In Balkans, both sides accuse other of Nazi tactics

• U.K. jury convicts man in first war-crimes trial

• Indonesia set to establish diplomatic ties with Israel

• Israel sends off more aid missions for Kosovo refugees

• Jewish groups mobilize for Kosovar refugees

• Jews, Arabs gather at coexistence seders

• JNF forbids U.K. group to use name

• Practice surgery on dead IDF soldiers prompts outcry

• Jews, Palestinians talk freedom at East Bay seder

• The $10,000 question—how to pay day-school fees

• 2-part class to focus on ‘Parting of the Ways’

• Students are slaves for a day in Pesach reenactment

• Religious diversity to be topic at MJCC conference

• Temple Isaiah grows, adds school building

• Couples may improve communication skills

• Correction

• ‘Terezin Requiem’ performance planned

• Sukkot in April volunteers to spruce up homes, spirits

• Local film examines ethnicity, bridges between women

• Seafood restaurant cooking up kosher—on occasion

• 3 Bay Area survivors recall life on death ship

• Why is Israel waffling on Kosovo?

• ‘Life is Beautiful’: real-life parallel

columns

• Shemini: What is value of following kosher laws?

opinions & letters

• Kosovo—a reminder of Yom HaShoah

• Jews must condemn Serb actions, despite ties during World War II

• Albanians saved Jews—now it’s time to reciprocate

• Israel should take the lessons of Kosovo to heart