news & features

• Librarian of Jewish life, Dina Abramowicz

• Choreographer dies

• Chen Shapira, local teacher and impresario dies at 66

• U.N. honors WWII diplomats who helped Jews escape Nazis

• Iran’s trial of 13 Jews looming

• Professor bikes across U.S. to fight world hunger

• Should Jews save the whales? Future of philanthropy debated

• Who has Gore’s ear? A number of Jews

• Here’s the dish on setting the table for a Passover seder

• UJC’s leaders work toward building trust with federations

• Bitter, sweet and unusual symbols on the seder plate

• U.S. Report

• Web site seeks owners of Nazi-looted art

• Sharansky: Ethiopians need help

• Canadian leader apologizes for ignoring Jewish refugees

• Hearings on converts are delayed

• Elian’s fate worries Cuban Jews in Miami

• Austrian youth honor victims of Holocaust

• Time-saving Pesach tips for overworked mothers

• Clinton, Barak discuss peace, sales to China

• D.P. camp Haggadah reissued

• Poland bans denier from teaching job

• Polish vandals strike back

• Passover customs and quirks vary tremendously between Ashkenazi, Sephardi

• Mountain Jews in the Caucasus eager to leave the war-torn region

• World Report

• Hezbollah shell hits moshav on border

• Russian Jews rally for ‘Iran 13’

• Israeli sexual harassers face tough laws, lenient society

• Israel’s high court frees eight Lebanese prisoners

• Lipstadt: Continuing to teach ‘will be enough for me’

• First new shul opens in Balkans since ‘30s

• Activists revisiting 1899 ‘blood libel’

• Reconstructionists create a Haggadah filled with questions

• Weizman off the hook, but calls for resignation grow

• Mideast Report

• Tots bring ‘beautiful footprints’ into teacher’s life

• Sukkot in April draws 1,000 to spruce up area homes

• Seder to celebrate freedom from slavery

• Senate candidate seeks to soften anti-Iraq sanctions

• Avoiding health hazards of pre-Passover cleaning

• It’s not just business as usual for Marin expatriates in Russia

• Bay Area matzah prices all over the map

• Mound of evidence delays arson suspects’ hearing

• Israeli, Palestinian sharpen their tongues in S.F. forum

• Jewish teens skate, rattle and roll at Maccabi tryouts

• ADL: Hate acts rise in Golden State, decline in U.S.

• BRJCC’s new director keeps his focus on bottom line

• Celebrate Pesach online with games, songs, cards

• Rabbi, cardinal find common threads at new S.F. forum

• A tool for ‘personal liberation’ Pesach conundrum: Which Haggadah?

• Irving loses, but Lipstadt says ‘nightmare not over’

columns

• What is our obligation to aid people in trouble?

opinions & letters

• When will our people be free?

• Relentless cook ponders freedom amid Passover chores

• A mom knows real freedom comes with consequences