news & features

• Feinstein offers rare peek into her Jewish heritage

• New Jewish PAC will support Republican candidates

• VW accused of infanticide during WWII

• Jewish groups aiding victims of tornadoes

• Deri suspension placed on hold

• Despite new law, Auschwitz crosses debate unresolved

• Police seek indictment of ex-Netanyahu aide

• Israelis tackle tricky distribution of aid in Albania

• Israel Supreme Court defuses row over Orient House

• For Balkan refugees, Israel is comforting, confusing

• Anti-Semitic fliers target pro-Jewish Moscow mayor

• Israel marks 50 tumultuous years at the United Nations

• Netanyahu’s continuing plunge in polls worries Likud

• Jesuit priest champions Jewish causes at camp site

• As immigrants flex muscles, Israeli campaign shifts tactics

• U.S. Report Arab-American resigns position as State Department aide to Indyk

• Meditators, gamblers on ballot

• Fleeing bombs, Yugoslav Jews find haven at Hungarian hotel

• World Report

• Chassidic school district in N.Y. declared unconstitutional again

• Settlers driving to expand, define Israel’s territory

• Platforms of the Likud, Labor and Center parties

• Mideast Report

• JFCS disabilities task force honors 7 Jewish institutions

• Correction

• Bay Area native in 1st crop of L.A. rabbinic school grads

• Genealogy series offers Jewish seekers the root stuff

• Young adults invited to work, study in Israel

• Peninsula Sinai breaks ground on $1 million project

• 3-year-old black-Jewish group seeking more ‘talkers and doers’

• ADL ready to settle 1993 class-action suit on spying

• Community service planned for Shavuot

• At 20, senior theater troupe shatters notions of old age

• Chabad’s Lag B’Omer picnic scores big-time in Stern Grove

• Barak wins in stunning victory

• Projected Knesset winners

• Mission of mercy

columns

• Where can we find quiet to savor awe and hear God?

opinions & letters

• Shavuot: the genius of tradition

• Despite Balkans, ‘tribalism’ often a positive force

• Election prediction: Israeli unity government likely

supplements

• Brighten up a family room with paint and imagination

• First-time home buyers unearth numerous options for financing

• A successful negotiation on real estate takes time

• When it’s time to sell the house, details count on inside and out

• Driving a bargain before signing on the dotted line

• Book brings Jewish ritual, observance into the garden

• Beat the Bay Area budget blues: Create a Jewish home for $100