news & features

• Late Croatian leader courted Jews, revised history

• Jews report less bias at work than others

• Will Congress put money behind Israeli-Syrian peace?

• U.S. Report

• Poll shows power of AIPAC drops slightly

• Hillary has ‘constructive’ talk with Orthodox Union

• Russia’s Jews wield power at polls

• Arabs, Israelis come together to solve health problems

• Report says Swiss turned away thousands of refugees

• $5.2 billion slave-labor deal only the start

• Pope drops plans to visit Iraq

• Stonemason who repaired Jewish cemetery victimized

• Institutions in Israel putting gene therapy to work

• Israel’s ‘diaspora chief’ offers plan to end pluralism debate

• Golan Heights residents offer mixed feelings on Syrian talks

• Soviet-confiscated Torah scrolls are returned to Jews in Moscow

• World Report

• Albright presses Israel to order U.S.-made airplanes, engines

• Israeli researchers making progress on breast cancer

• Israeli government to launch campaign to save water

• Israeli radio callers voice daily concerns: jobs, schools

• No handshaking yet for Israeli and Syrian leaders

• Mideast Report

• Bay Area students start packing as Birthright Israel launches free Holy Land trips

• Father stitches handmade bar mitzvah tallit with love

• Sonoma’s young Jewish adults reach for the SKY

• Anything goes at area classes in Israeli-style fighting

• Jewish War Veterans shatter stereotypes, recall history

• 1,500 are expected at YAD’s Latke Ball on Thursday

• Hopeful donors line up to give marrow, ‘save world’

• Turning to the Internet to understand Torah portions

• Rabbi scheduled to plead

• Correction

• JCC of S.F. is setting for Kwanzaa-Chanukah party

• Clergy address ways to welcome gay youth, families

• Great-grandmother dishes up tasty family memoirs

• Arson suspect admits mixing synagogue firebombs

• Key to Syrian deal lies in hands of Israeli voters

• Yule-Chanukah cards: Are the messages mixed?

• Scholars debating Y2K as a Jewish issue

columns

• Ancient reconciliation tale continues to teach lessons

opinions & letters

• Setting Switzerland’s record straight

• Israeli-Syrian peace talks: Who was the first to blink?

• Israel doesn’t need to make peace with Syria or Assad

supplements

• Marin nutritionist focuses on nourishing body and soul