news & features

• Hanoch Levin, famed Israeli playwright, dead at 56

• Anti-Semitic incidents rattle Connecticut synagogues

• Barak asks Congress to slow embassy more

• Advocates for 13 Iran Jews seeking quick investigation

• Where to send aid

• Arizona frees hate-plotter over governor’s objections

• Forest fire stopped at Tawonga

• Students wins right to wear Jewish star

• Should Olympic massacre-planner profit from crime?

• Mayor flouts Jerusalem ban on smoking

• Looks can be deceiving with Israel’s new diaspora chief

• Israeli team defies the odds in Turkey rescue efforts

• Document lists Ford among companies using slave labor

• Israel’s Supreme Court steps into turbine transport troubles

• Too many bosses at Shoah museum?

• Palestinian intellectual accused of lying

• Israeli, Palestinian negotiators will reconvene with Albright

• World Report

• Low Farben payments anger ex-slave laborers

• Allies may have helped Nazis obtain defense jobs in Australia

• Release of Palestinian prisoners still a hot-button issue

• Islamic rebellion in Dagestan puts Jews there on alert

• Rabbi stirs up U.K. by granting divorces

• Israeli girl recovering after four days in quake rubble

• Mideast Report

• Temple Isaiah services will be aired on cable

• Bay Area group takes Torah to isolated Russian Jews

• Chochmat HaLev will begin new classes

• Women integrate dance, yoga and aerobics into prayer service

• 1,000-plus attend two anti-hate rallies at sites on Peninsula

• Israeli attorney general defends plea bargain of Samuel Sheinbein

• Kosovar refugees get taste of shalom, community

• User-friendly Torah guide marks 5 years

• Specialist gives advice on improving safety

• ADL’s S.F. security program offers tips, inspiration

• $1.8 million federal grant boosts Santa Rosa pair’s youth program

• State officials create two hate-crime commissions

• Software entrepreneur gives Jewish meditators a cushier experience

• Shortage of rabbis strikes all movements

• Oracle peers into future, promotes peace

• Is Israel, atop faultlines, ready for major earthquake?

columns

• Why term ‘chosen people’ makes Jews uneasy today

opinions & letters

• A rebirth for 500 Jews in Russia

• Hate-crime laws actually retard civil rights progress

• Do American Jews have nothing to fear but fear itself?

supplements

• Shabbat makeup lets women gloss over law

• Author seeks new material on girls’ rites

• An engagement party can be informal event

• Tantalizing smells, rituals of Shabbat in Libya evoke comforting memories

• Jewish couples may need to resolve differences, too

• Transplanted couple double effort for baby-naming

• Best man workload a big test

• What you need to know about Jewish weddings

• Life memberships give the gift of community