news & features

• Jewish groups laud court ban on prayer at school games

• ‘Iran 13’ judge stalls; Jews in U.S. amass support

• U.S.Report

• Barak crisis cools after Meretz move

• Rags-to-riches Russian Jew shows moxie despite adversity

• The last Jew living in the city of Auschwitz dies at 72

• More peacekeepers heading to Lebanon

• Israeli hush-hush program hosts Tibetans

• SS suspect, nearly 90, faces trial

• Bronfman brothers give Jews reason to raise glasses

• World Report

• Settlers stage militant protests in land-for-peace battle

• Mideast Report

• Jews unite behind Orthodox to support area’s 1st eruv

• Beth Israel-Judea installs new officers

• Sabra Grill reopens, serving kosher Mideast fare in S.F.

• Holy Land rainbow park gives ‘Purple Lady’ hope

• Carmel synagogue sets singles’ weekend

• Writer’s family scars reopened, healed in new book

• 2 Lehrhaus classes begin this summer

• BJE announces board members, officers

• Local students to explore Holy Land on fellowship

• Toddlers are invited to play this summer at the Marin JCC

• AJCommittee elects officers

• Volunteers needed to help older adults

• Palestinian-Jewish quilt offers pattern for peace, social change

• Aptos classes include parents group, yoga

• Jewish studies offered at Tiburon resort

• B’nai B’rith elects officers in Sunnyvale

• Gay Orthodox rabbi grapples with Torah’s ‘gray areas’

• As JCF presidency ends, Zlot zooms to Israel, Russia

• L.A. board of rabbis mines a Diamond from Oakland

• Camp Arazim closes after 30 years in N. California

• Summer Hebrew classes are scheduled in Palo Alto

• Jews caught blue-handed in book on exotic rituals

• Explore genetic research, testing, ethics on the Web

• Palo Alto author transmits the ‘ohs and ahs’ of Torah

• John Goldman carrying on family legacy as JCF president

• Seniors, JFCS to reside under one Jewish roof

columns

• On finding the wisdom to see ourselves as we are

opinions & letters

• A victory for separation

• Don’t mess with Texas Jewry, where a hora meets the hoedown

• Is it kosher to boycott Dr. Laura for being anti-gay?

• One giant step backward for democracy in Russia