news & features

• Rachel Piotrkowski, survivor, dies at 81

• Albert Michael Kahn dies at 86; Ex-S.F. artist used Shoah themes

• Artist Leonard Baskin, known for wit, dies at 77

• San Quentin guard finds swastika in his work mailbox

• Clinton Jewish aide switching to Gore

• Chagall paintings disappear in theft

• Insurers try to block state’s Holocaust Registry Law

• U.S. Report

• Shanghai’s Jewish transplants…

• Red flags go up, then come down, in Russian rabbi flap

• Israel hustles to boost security for Barak after settlers’ threats

• Stop paying for sex, activists warn men

• Kidnapped boy returns to Israel

• Report on missiles in Iran, Iraq puts scare into Israel

• Diplomats to negotiate ‘non-negotiable’ Jerusalem

• City was unlikely haven for Jews

• Russian educators try to combat Holocaust ignorance

• World Report

• Albright’s Mideast trip hastens new D.C. peace round

• Jewish activists make final pleas for Iran 13

• Poll shows Reform Judaism gaining strength in Israel

• Israeli study says surfing Web, no sleep, harming kids

• Women pray at contested Wall without major conflict

• Mideast Report

• Pluralism power-hitter visits S.F. to recruit legal eagles

• Reform Community Shabbat hoping for crowd in S.F.

• UCSF doctor studies Jewish links to breast cancer

• Rabbi Alan Lew wins literary award in Oakland

• Chabad welcomes new Torah with parade through San Rafael

• Palo Alto school plans fund-raiser to honor its organizers

• Technion interns need summer housing

• HUC head sees boom for Reform in the West

• HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

• San Francisco JNF moves to new office on Kearny Street

• ‘We’re alike and not alike,’ say Israeli teens in S.F.

• Bay Area interfaith network vows to fight sin of silence

• Oakland writer crafts manuals on ex-spouses, mentors

• 7th-grade Muslims and Jews share cultures, sacred objects

• Chochmat HaLev co-director writes meditation how-to

• Correction

• Father’s Day concert set at Los Gatos JCC

• Kids can find Jewish songs, games and stories on Web

• JCC building boom expands with S. Bay $12 million complex

• Shas pushes Ehud Barak government to the brink

• Residents worry Jordan Valley being negotiated away

columns

• How well do we live out teachings we heard at Sinai?

opinions & letters

• World-class home for Greater San Jose

• U.S. Jews should support Israel, not muddy the issues by Earl Raab

• Judaism’s holiest site must belong to all of us by Marlene Adler Marks

• ‘New traditions’ signify deep blow to Judaism by Asher V. Finn