news & features

• Richard Shevell, Stanford professor, Peninsula Jewish leader, dies at 79

• Museum will focus on civility, tolerance

• 8 rabbis arrested in NYC demonstration for ‘Iran 13’

• Israeli-bound passengers cope as Tower bites dust

• Will U.S. firms join slave-labor restitution drive?

• Despite federal protests, states pursue Holocaust-era claims

• Jewish activists warily watch Falwell’s national voter drive

• Pittburgh’s Jews shaken by deadly spree

• Pair of alleged ‘hit men’ confess to slaying rabbi’s wife

• Biblical zoo called ‘modern Noah’s ark’

• Japanese garden transforms Jerusalem hills into little Israel

• Barak’s money-for-peace plan brings ridicule, little else so far

• Mideast terror takes a break, report says

• Despite emigration, Moldova’s Jews create revival

• United Nations, Israel prepare for withdrawal from Lebanon

• Wiesenthal Center head attacks WWII rescue of Torah scholars

• Prague renames square for its most famous son, Kafka

• At 52nd anniversary, Israel is asking itself: ‘Exactly who am I?

• World Report

• Jerusalem theater thriving amid a sea of many cultures

• Reform scores victory in Israel

• Yad Vashem seeking the names of Holocaust victims

• Activities for children and teens abound in Jerusalem

• Israeli negotiator predicts Palestinian state

• Croatian Jews to build center on site of pre-war synagogue

• Neo-Nazis infiltrating Russia scouts

• Mauthausen concert to go ahead despite controversy

• Mideast Report

• Will Quackenbush’s troubles hurt Holocaust foundation?

• New Magnes documents detail hardships of Inquisition

• Midrasha to graduate 92 at 4 East Bay sites

• Yom HaShoah commemorated

• Israel Memorial Day to be commemorated

• Israeli producer picks up kudos from S.F. international film fest

• Jewish-Palestinian group to meet Sunday

• Men shoot hoops at JCC in Palo Alto

• Governor proclaims remembrance days

• Jews risked lives in anti-apartheid fight, author says

• Noah’s Bagels parent files for bankruptcy

• Beth El holds class on ethics of ancestors

• Area participants see gay march as ‘inspirational’ and ‘inclusive’

• San Jose firebomber gets 8-year sentence

• Swimmers will raise money for disabled at MJCC

• Berkeley mayor swaps hippieland for intense week in the Holy Land

• JVS gives area bank its leadership award

• Ellis Island escapade brings Exodus home

• Koret Foundation awards prizes to four

• Passover project shrinks distance between S.F. and Kiev

• Witty, powerful women and a glimpse into the past

• Leadership meeting scheduled at JCF

• Volunteers spruce up area homes

• Local Jewish mothers back march in D.C.

• ‘Iran 13’ becoming political pawns

• Jewish victims of violence will join Million Mom March

columns

• Confront the wrongdoer to avoid grudges or revenge

opinions & letters

• In Iran’s eyes, every Jew is a spy

• Pitiful or powerful, will the real Israel please stand

• Zionism isn’t dead; it just hasn’t reached all its goals

supplements

• A mother’s love, metamorphosis amid the Holocaust

• Jewish group caters to feed-and-burp set

• Home of Chaim Weizmann elevated to museum quality