news & features

• Sha’ar Zahav co-founder Bernard Pechter dies at 63

• Despite peace process, Israel faces tough year at U.N.

• UJC to open offices outside N.Y.

• First Jewish children’s museum gets off the ground in Brooklyn

• National grassroots campaign to push for gun control

• Hollywood gala? No, it’s a mystical Rosh Hashanah

• 2 Jewish organizations helping Kosovar kids return to school

• Much skepticism as Israelis, Palestinians rekindle talks

• 10 years after fall of wall, European Jewry reviving

• Officials probe ‘Kosher Sex’ rabbi’s charitable trust

• Russian Jews usher in 5760 amid tension

• Czechs to probe Holocaust during October conference

• Slave-labor lawyers vow to take dismissal to high court

• World Report

• Netanyahu may face bribery probe over contractor

• Accused war criminal off the hook

• Israeli team digs in to help Greek earthquake victims

• Mideast Report

• Israel trip gives Tauscher closer look at peace efforts

• Search for St. Louis passengers comes here

• AJCommittee sets peace-process talk

• A history of Russian Jewry with memory at its core

• Santa Cruz Jews repent, celebrate amid sand and waves

• Corrections

• Lawyer says firebombing not a hate crime

• Opening of Jews for Jesus store disturbs S.F. rabbis

• New S.F. Hillel head eyes conflict resolution

• Janet Reno praises Sacramento’s response to arsons

• UAHC schedules October bioethics conference in San Francisco

• Prof captures story of Jewish rescuer

• At Yom Kippur, can Jews forgive hatemongers?

• Sherith Israel turns the clock back 150 years on new year

columns

• Apocalypse now? Jews don’t need to stress out

opinions & letters

• Make your health a priority in 5760

• Not a day for gloom, Yom Kippur lets the soul soar

• Violent anti-Semites cannot stop the Jewish heart