news & features

• Congregation leader, musician, dies at 67

• N.Y. rabbi pleads guilty in $6 million fraud case

• U.S. officials postpone decision on German sanctions

• Grants to survivors to help with memoirs

• Mediation efforts cut short by Israeli takeover of village

• World Report JNF U.K. resolves dispute over funds

• Jews of Macedonia fear escalation of war

• Russian neo-Nazis under fire after shul is vandalized

• Yugoslav Jews check out Israel

• Russian report fails to slam Communists

• Israelis contest drive to revive 1947 partition plan

• Arrest of 12 Iranian Jews linked to internal dispute

• Deri conviction changes tactics of prime ministerial candidates

• Yugoslav Jews relate daily drama of siege

• Austrian neurologist charged with war crimes

• Berlin’s Jews celebrating rebirth as Reichstag reopens

• Knesset amends law to ease extraditions

• Camp Gan Israel to start June 28

• Israel’s population jumps to 6 million in latest census

• Kosovo refugees grateful for haven in Israeli kibbutz

• Mideast Report

• Filmmaker-child survivor says luck, wit saved him

• Conference to meditate on interfaith spiritual odysseys

• Congregants are happy to choose Hebrew names

• Writer finds ‘no problem’ in Morocco means ‘watch out!’

• American Friends of Hebrew U. closing S.F. office

• Asian Jewish woman faces confused looks, outworn images and growing faith

• Rabbi links end of civility in schools to massacre

• Correction

• 1st Koret book awards named

• Morocco’s wonders demand a guide and deep pockets

• Brandeis University group will hold used book sale as fund-raiser

• The 1999 Koret Prize will go to 4 recipients

• Meditation center seeks more space to expand minds

• Camp Guide

• Neo-Nazism contributed to Littleton massacre

• Is United States meddling in Israeli elections?

columns

• Aharei-Kedoshim: What aiding a neighbor can mean

opinions & letters

• We must prevent school massacres

• Sobering trip to Polish camps strips teens’ tough veneer

• Anti-abortion leaders should not call babies ‘survivors’

supplements

• Preschool teachers try to make Judaism ‘more real’

• Menuhin’s father issues a veiled threat

• The day Joshua toppled Jericho’s walls

• Jewish overnight camps packed to rafters, directors say

• True confessions: Teacher acted up in religious school

• Camp reunion set in Marin in August

• Travel camp planned for area teenagers

• Teacher gives a powerful survival lesson

• Camp offers Jewish nourishment to counselors, too

• Browser beware: Plusses, pitfalls of Web

• About ‘In first person…’

• S.F. Jewish Community Library expands with Palo Alto annex

• Hebrew school opened world for Texan

• BJE offers ‘camperships’ to area youth in need