news & features

• Could an Orthodox Jew become Gore’s best choice for a sidekick?

• Immigrant benefits won’t grow

• Joint, Jewish Agency concerned as UJC reassesses global needs

• Austria dealings get tricky

• Report says hate groups dropping in number but becoming nastier

• ‘Iran 13’ can hire own lawyers; U.S. Jewish groups plan vigils

• U.S. report

• L.A. ad agency exec turns passion for Jewish unity into a magazine

• Israel at night

• Israel lays groundwork for withdrawal from Lebanon

• Earth’s natural largest crater cradles a spectacular desert

• Israeli Arab commemoration of 24th Land Day turns violent

• 700 cave-dwellers allowed to go home

• Jews to invade Salonika

• Up-and-coming Rio Jews build community center

• Jewish center near Auschwitz to show victims’ prewar lives

• Arab students riot at Haifa U.

• Israel raises $500 million in bond issue

• El Al flies to rescue throughout the world

• Hackers in Tel Aviv point to their virtues

• Visit a Japanese tea house in Galilee region

• Czechs translate Hitler book

• Hurtling through 3,000 years of Jerusalem’s history

• Milestone Israeli law granting women equals rights

• World Report

• Wine industry going high-tech

• Beyond milk and honey, cuisine melds Mideast, Continental fare

• Israel tracks down 900 apartments for SLA members

• Annan vows U.N. backing for Lebanon redeployment

• ‘Israeli mafia’ members end up dead in S. Africa

• Poll shows Israeli Arabs feel more like Palestinians

• Mideast Report

• Singer blends rhapsodic poetry, feminism

• Flash cards for hot flashes make parlor game out of menopause

• Two-track seder: Local teens board ‘Tolerance Train’

• Dutch move could end Transamerica boycott

• Outpouring of support buoys victims of anti-Semitism

• Will Reform’s gay-union vote hurt already-shaky Jewish unity?

• Israeli, U.S. Jewish culture gap growing, say arts panelists in S.F.

• Caller draws light sentence in Palo Alto JCC case

• Lost tribe lecture scheduled at Herbst

• 3 agencies join forces for intergenerational outreach

• Spectators at Sacramento hearing see arson suspect as ‘arrogant’

• Gays, lesbians applaud Reform resolution on unions

• Plagued by Pesach? Internet offers tips, recipes, insights

• New S.F. lunch spot has sights, smells of old-style deli

• Golan silent minority would trade the land

• Founder of Ikea store haunted by Nazi past

• Treaty would weaken Israel, activists claim

columns

• Are human beings superior to so-called ‘lower’ species?

opinions & letters

• Struggling with our religious diversity

• Anti-Semitic actions speak louder than hateful words

• Pre-Matzah Syndrome—preparation and humility

• Sonoma reporter responds to hate by donning kippah