news & features

• San Francisco memorial service recalls a grandmaster of chess

• Israel seeks millions to resettle Ethiopians

• Non-Jews will receive bulk of slave funds

• U.S. report

• Missionaries dupe Jewish newspapers across country

• Chechen sisters reunited in Israel after 9 years apart

• Rising from the rubble: Jewish eatery opens in Warsaw

• Barak’s bad luck with Assad is bad news for peace

• Gas reserves detected off Israel

• Navigator, Begin’s grandson die in F-16 fighter crash

• Compromise will preserve Prague Jewish cemetery

• Rededicated Kiev synagogue to serve as community center

• Pope’s speech at Yad Vashem eases Jewish criticism

• Wife of Likud’s leader dies at 63

• Russian Jews wonder what Putin will bring

• Town wants to put positive face on Hitler’s birthplace

• Barak survives no-confidence votes

• Jerusalem mufti claims Israel exaggerates Holocaust

• World Report

• Beirut paper asks Syria to withdraw

• Jerusalem start-up firm sold for $470 million

• Judge has second thoughts about letting off ‘The Scythe’

• Muslim official slams Israel

• Mideast Report

• Writer’s hunger for acceptance leaves her starving amid plenty

• YJA of East Bay hosts veggie potluck, havdallah

• ‘Battle for God’ author to appear at JCC

• Beth David schedules cemetery dedication

• Jews, Christians take a look at the historical Jesus

• Congregants rally for Santa Rosa affordable housing

• S.F. panel probes Holocaust legacy of gays, lesbians

• Oakland synagogue to offer free concert

• Joyce Goldstein to address Sacramento federation women’s dinner

• Parting the waters

• Pluralism in Israel is topic of rabbi’s talk

• JVS honors director for 25 years of ‘vision, tenacity’

• Online sellers post disclaimer with anti-Semitic book

• Berkeley tennis team battles slur by wearing kippot

• Camp Swig, Newman kids sing favorites on new CD

• Police findings could lead to Netanyahu indictment

• Web sites don’t pass over children’s inquiring minds

• ‘Simple Kabbalah’ author calls mystical text complex

• School board in Palo Alto might force JCC to move

• Reform rabbis back gay unions

• Will Mid-Peninsula day school be left in lurch?

• Papal visit spurs healing between Catholics, Jews

columns

• What good is a human being? Judaism answers the question

opinions & letters

• Palo Alto needs a new JCC

• Vatican archives could open window to Jewish history

• Israelis need crash course in Christianity and Islam

• Pope and Jews hold differing views on repentance

supplements

• Welcome bags keep guests happy, well-fed

• Twins’ b’not mitzvah reflects Korean, Jewish heritage

• Bar mitzvah pressures from in-laws

• Shrimp dinners and more make b’nai mitzvah traif

• Doctors make house calls as non-Orthodox mohelim

• At festive affairs, bands learn to expect the unexpected

• Jewish weddings—something old, something new

• Couple marries in secret

• ‘Bar mitzvah king’ lacks skill of a storyteller in ‘Off the Wall’

• Marin woman overcomes obstacles to dream day