news & features

• Arnold Greene, longtime E. Bay Jewish activist, 67

• Ben Silver, East Bay federation leader, dies at 86

• Spielberg launches next phase for Holocaust project

• Abandoned Iraqi Torah makes trek to New York

• Anti-Nazi activism is part of high school lesson plan

• Women moving up in Jewish philanthropic world

• Jewish groups don’t get all they want from Congress

• U.S. Report

• Oil menorot grow in popularity, though ones with candles still rule

• Israeli Arab Knesset members target nation’s Jewish character

• Dalai Lama meets Israeli leaders, joins interfaith event

• Mubarak may be ill

• Jews in Kosovo city share fate and struggle of Albanians

• Anti-establishment Israeli youth get hooked on piercing

• Rome bombings set off alert for anti-Semitic activity

• Report shows 180 Nazis found refuge in Argentina after WWII

• Documents released on Israeli nuclear spy

• Stranger gives lung to dying Israeli girl

• Russian emigres breathing life into German Jewry

• Document shows Allies knew of Auschwitz in 1942

• 9.1 percent jobless rate in Israel

• Visit to death camp or time for strippers?

• Leaked report on refugees says Swiss aided Nazis

• Anti-pluralism resolution whips up frenzy in Knesset

• Jewish Web arriving in Latin America

• U.N. orders Ontario to fund Jewish schools

• Albright plans Mideast trip to push final-status talks

• Poll shows Israelis want closed borders

• Dispute over flights mires Israel, Canada

• Israel football league rules out foul play with call girls

• Israeli newspaper exec arrested on suspicion of hiring a hit man

• Sculptor objects to Rabin memorial

• Mideast Report

• Jewish Daisy troop off to energetic start

• S.F. author plots murder in Jewish quarter

• Workshop with E. Europeans

• Family turns holiday giving into tzedakah through JFCS

• First Jewish Arts Renaissance gets thumbs up from viewers

• Sonoma choir brings Maccabee tale to life

• Argentine Jew awes S.F. visitors

• St. Helena to light a public chanukiah

• Sen. Jay Rockefeller to speak here

• Gift Guide

• Jewish bean babes leap off holiday shelves

• Calif., WWII victim’s heirs reach accord with insurers

• Sacramento Jews riled by report that arsonists had help

• Learn to press oil, Maccabee-style

• Guitarist to jazz up singles party

• S.F. supervisor takes wild ride through Holy Land

• Does ‘early’ Chanukah magnify ‘December dilemma’?

• Christians say Israel doesn’t understand millennialists

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