news & features

• Israel’s longest-serving Knesset member dies at 90

• Jacobs, advocate for children’s rights, dies at 85

• Survivors form victims organization

• Will U.S. offer restitution for stolen Jewish property?

• UJC denying that it planned to offer Arafat an award

• Congress lets hate bill die

• Protesters fail to stop dismantling of West Bank outpost

• 54 Orthodox rabbis excommunicate Amir

• Neo-Nazi fugitive found in Britain, faces extradition

• Israel frees more Arab prisoners in goodwill gesture

• Mandela bears message of peace in first visit to Israel

• World Report

• Ethiopian Israelis plead for relatives

• Residency policy reversed for Palestinians in Jerusalem

• Israelis mark Rabin yahrzeit

• Jordan’s prince marks treaty anniversary

• Ukrainian survivors chronicled in film

• Schindler’s suitcase offers warning to Germans today

• French Nazi collaborator Papon disappears from home

• Mideast Report

• Physicians to heal each other through support group

• Jewish chief downplays Sunnyvale swastika incident

• Hard-hat tours slated at S.F.‘s Rhoda Goldman Plaza

• IDF chief calls for more women in power in talk here

• Book festival lineup to feature 15 writers

• Stereotypes vex Jewish writer

• Jews should come ‘home’ to Israel, settler says in S.F.

• Intel buys Israeli chip, software firm for $1.6 billion

• Jews weigh in on reproductive issues at S.F. confab

• Vatican agrees to partially open archives

• 4 area authors share Holocaust tales at S.F. book fest

• Uri Geller moves from bending spoons to healing mind

• Poet to read at S.F. State

• Kol Emeth hires rabbi’s wife as part-time matchmaker

• Oakland author champions boys

• 117 Jewish artists will showcase work in ‘Renaissance’

• Prolific composer joins Rodef Sholom for weekend event

• Berkeley rabbi says emigration of Cubans to Israel was no secret

• Marin lawsuit cites anti-Semitism in probation office

• First a Jew, then a Christian, now a Chassid—she’ll talk here

• Barak’s 100 days: Kudos on peace, jeers on economy

• How Hebrew comes to life in day schools through talk, play

columns

• Genesis teaches timeless lesson: Wealth may not bring happiness

opinions & letters

• The importance of learning Hebrew

• Is it good for the Jews? Is that question inappropriate?

• Unkosher system needs an overhaul