news & features

• New yeshiva opens for summer term at Ojai camp

• Employee accuses CIA of anti-Semitism

• New super-agency chooses name, appoints interim head

• Mideast Report Shas leader Deri faces more charges

• On IDF bases, volunteers discover a different Israel

• World Report Prof. fired for book on Holocaust denial

• MASH-style Israeli unit up and running in Macedonia

• Kosovar refugees receive a warm welcome in Israel

• What’s the scoop on Morocco Jews? It’s your guess

• 38 Jews still trapped in Kosovo

• Nazi-looted art up for auction

• New Israel Fund pushing voter turnout, aide says here

• Israeli navy fires at fishing boats

• Party-hopping MKs mixing up Israeli political landscape

• CBS’ Dan Raviv to examine ‘Israel at a Crossroad’

• 30,000 Israelis rally at concert to aid refugees from Kosovo

• German Jews voice concern for refugees

• Israel at 51: Prime minister lauds nation’s successes

• Abdullah: Arab bonds override ties to Israel

• Mordechai, Netanyahu use televised debate as forum to trade barbs

• Knesset debate on Kosovo devolves into right-left fight

• Arab parties reject 1st Israeli-Arab premier candidate

• Serb backers blame ‘talmudic Zionist Jews’

• Lantos bill seeks information on missing IDF soldiers

• Once on welfare, emigre now helps others find work

• Yom HaZikaron service to honor Israel’s martyrs

• Brandeis Hillel student philanthropists hand out $14,000

• World waking to Holocaust role, U.S. official says here

• ‘Israel-In-A-Day Fair’ offers varied fare

• ‘Slow down and improve life,’ Israeli tai chi master advises

• Last shtetls going fast, JDC worker says here

• 2 experts to discuss Israel’s May elections

• Revamped theater a testament to dreams, business sense

• Wendy Wasserstein to speak in Oakland

• ‘Skinheads’ assault, abduct S.F. man, carve swastika into his chest

• European klezmer stars ready for Bay Area premiere

• Hadassah to hold Education Day on Monday

• Besieged Jews in Russia get support from Bay Area

• Two experts slated to discuss Israel’s May elections at BRJCC

• Agency seeks better business climate for Israeli Arabs

• Exec’s $6 million gift propels new PJCC campus

• U.S. troubled as Netanyahu, Sharon get cozy with Russians

• Death knell sounding for Morocco’s Jews

columns

• Tazria-Metzora: Guard your tongue from evil

opinions & letters

• Anti-Semitism in the CIA?

• Peace in Balkans requires force to stop the murders

• Israeli ambivalence on Kosovo beyond comprehension

supplements

• Volunteer project offers 240 ways to help out

• The pleasures of watching emigre family adapt to U.S.

• My father has a hard hat and a soft heart

• Inviting an emigre family to seder leads to friendship

• Many hours spent helping leave no time for the aches

• About ‘In first person…’

• ‘I know I am doing something worthwhile for people in need’

• A senior and an AIDS client turn out to be wonderful pals

• You never know just who might be listening

• I used to believe giving my money was enough

• Mentor-tutors get ‘an education’ from volunteering with youths

• Three generations inspired to serve on chevra kadishah

• Writer’s not afraid of police but it’s different for emigres

• Burial-society volunteers find ‘spiritual elevation’ in task

• Emigres who help emigres discover new skills and joys