news & features

• Israeli who aided immigrants dies

• Neo-Nazis ditch D.C. rally; counterdemonstrators exult

• Germany probing booksellers for offering ‘Mein Kampf’ online

• Jewish organizations renewing call for gun control

• Should OSI’s mission include more than Nazi-hunting?

• AIPAC accuses ZOA of endangering Israel’s interests

• Edgar Bronfman receives highest honor

• Hillary has Jews in her family, but will it affect her campaign?

• America’s new mantra: No place is safe from violence

• New Israeli ministers include woman, rabbi, Arab

• Documents: U.K. blocked plan to save Jews

• Suicide-driver rams into 11 Israeli soldiers

• Arrest in Knesset hoax leaves initial suspects fuming

• Israelis, Palestinians spar over timing of withdrawals

• Yad Vashem reprints ghetto artist’s book

• German chancellor joins slave-labor talks

• Israel opens military academy

• Israeli feminists say nation still lags behind in equality

• Germany returns van Gogh

• Britain’s new Mideast minister known for anti-Israel writings

• Disney to spotlight David’s kingdom

• World Report

• Peres has new title, still waiting for work

• German Jewish head loses faith in nation

• 3 blind men accused in computer scam

• Holocaust sculpture has been adored and trashed

• Australian confab threatened with boycott

• Germany to pour funds into camp preservation

• Israel releases Eichmann memoir

• Mideast Report

• Bible is folklore at its best, Berkeley professor says

• 4 local emigre kids win honors in HIAS’ annual poster contest

• MJCC’s CenterStage bringing out the stars for 10th anniversary

• Local agencies win grants to teach emigres job skills

• Beth Am—one of largest to hire woman as senior rabbi

• Shir Hadash plans fall festival, religious school classes

• Betrothed couples offered class on marriage techniques

• Rabbi leaves seminary slot for new post at S.F. home

• Bar mitzvah Web site’s a big hit for Moraga youth

• Goldman Fund hires new director, expands Jewish giving

• Campers descend from hills to push environmentalism

• Zealotry and belief focus of Beit Midrash

• Correction

• Peace group names S.F. woman to board

• Mount Zion names four new directors

• A’s raise $2,000 for Sacramento-area synagogues

• L.A. Jews in disbelief

• Suspect tied to white supremacist groups

• Local JCCs heighten security after L.A. shootings

columns

• God’s wake-up call comes now, before the Holy Days

opinions & letters

• How do we protect ourselves?

• Missionary fervor of Chabad impacts movement, world

• In face of hate crimes, most Americans stand with us

supplements

• Respect ‘alternative’ families, area rabbi tells educators

• U.S. Dept. of Education honors Jewish schools

• Area rabbi wants to give religious teaching a shot in the arm

• Mother turns grief into a dream of 1,000 playgrounds

• On learning to write my name and getting my first library card

• Boston area eighth-graders pore over Talmud by surfing the Web

• Browser beware: Pitfalls of Web spark debate in Jewish community

• $3.1 million grant for Shoah programs

• Chicago developer launches campaign to make Jewish day schools free

• Surviving religious services with a hyperactive child in tow

• Local synagogues help stuff 530 backpacks for Head Start

• Wherefore art thou, Abraham? Teens stage Judaism

• Hadassah Israel program reaches out to Orthodox youth

• Program recruits Jews to pass on ‘surplus of literacy’