news & features

• S.F. community leader saved by ‘Japanese Schindler’ dies, 88

• School district won’t post Ten Commandments

• Florida billing itself as land of sunshine and kashrut

• Top U.N. official goes to bat for 13 jailed Jews in Iran

• Not-guilty plea entered for Furrow

• Former Shoah museum head feels exonerated

• College-aged youths offered free Israel trips

• N.Y. Jews expecting a Christmas ‘gift’

• Agunot advocate calls for day of prayer before holidays

• N.Y. Jews in uproar in Orthodox slaying

• JCC victim remains hospitalized

• Dumping West Bank store puts Burger King in a pickle

• 10 years after wall’s fall, European Jewry reviving

• Barak’s New Year’s message: Tolerance is critical

• Israeli court extends sentences for Rabin assassin and brother

• Israel, Jewish groups racing to help Turkey quake victims

• Jewish refuge for neglected children opens in Moscow

• Palestinians publish tour guide

• Jews rejoice at emotional ceremony near Auschwitz

• Rosh Hashanah is the time to get the buzz on honey

• ‘Ethnic purges’ on Russian TV

• World Report

• Premier predicting full peace by February

• Israel Radio pulls plug on non-Orthodox ads

• Sabbath transport crisis resolved

• Jewish group troubled by pope’s Iraq trip

• At WWII 60th anniversary, descendants meet to reflect

• Eichmann’s aide, still in Syria, facing trial for crimes in France

• Israeli president suffering infection

• Davis names panel to examine groups that spawn hate crimes

• Correction

• Anthology honors 2 local rabbis’ High Holy Day words

• Fulbright fellow to study Jewish culture in Morocco

• ‘Tolerance’ pins designed to aid Sacramento synagogues

• Huge campus tops wish list for new federation president

• Jewish kid plays questioning Catholic in San Jose play

• S.F. mayor hopefuls mark Round 1 at Hebrew Academy

• Oakland rabbi shuns retirement to lead congregation in Vallejo

• AJCongress ‘arms’ rabbis in gun battle

• Murdered postal worker Ileto honored in S.F. church

• Walnut Creek Talmud study

• Koret helps renovate Jerusalem’s Liberty Bell Park

• Camp Tawonga loses several structures to forest fire

• FBI surveillance of hate groups critical, Jewish leaders assert

• 11 Jews are missing from Iran, families say

• Synagogues juggle security and spirituality at Holy Days

columns

• Does ‘Day of Judgment’ come once a year or every moment?

opinions & letters

• Start 5760 right by joining a synagogue

• I chose a non-Jew as a partner and the non-Jew chose Judaism

• On Days of Awe, don’t feel guilty about feeling guilty—guilt’s good

supplements

• Ritual makes chickens pay the price for human sins

• ACLU files suit to keep school open on Yom Kippur

• Selichot sets mood for the Days of Awe

• Create tasty holiday desserts without using cream or butter