news & features

• Zionist, friend to Ethiopians, dies

• Bobover Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam dies at 92

• 1999 reported hate crimes jump 12 percent in Calif.

• GOP Jews stress individual rights over societal ones

• Two rabbis invited to address Republicans

• Cheney’s oil days: Iran stance raises concerns among Jews

• Locals confer with others in N.J. to merge gay, Jewish identities

• Clinton’s two-fisted tactic: Boost Barak, nail Arafat

• Convention crashers marched to faint echo of 1960s

• U.S. Report

• GOP courting Jewish votes with pro-Israel platform

• Bill discourages local laws that block synagogues

• Planks in GOP’s Mideast platform

• Temperature in Jerusalem? Don’t look under ‘Israel’ on CNN’s site

• Jews speculate: Did Goussinsky sell out to Putin?

• Holocaust groups’ critic stirs controversy in London

• Fast track appeal good for Iran 10

• Baseball fanatic makes big pitch to promote the sport in Israel

• World Report

• Arafat attempts to rally other Arab nations’ support

• Katsav promises to guide a ‘quieter, calmer’ Israel

• Vatican’s eye on Jerusalem

• JCC hopes to get clearer picture of its future in Palo Alto

• Online classifieds, newsletters network congregants

• Camp for youngsters, toddler care to begin at MJCC

• Binational state is only solution, Israel journalist maintains in S.F.

• 27 interns help Kohn program celebrate 15th summer

• Environmental report bodes well for Beth El expansion

• 1st area Ramah day camp combines games, fun, prayer

• Israeli cultural attaché fulfills mission in S. F.

• Rejection of proposed Palo Alto eruv a blow to Jews

• After enriching 3-year eye-opener, consul general is heading home

• Teens serve with Avodah

• Study social action, history, anti-Semitism on the Web

• Political clock ticking for Barak and his government

• GOP Jews aim to show they’re not an oxymoron

columns

• Moses offers vital lesson on rebuking with sensitivity

opinions & letters

• We need Jewish Republicans, too

• Tisha B’Av teaches us to look inward, reflect

• Palestinians still empty-handed under Arafat’s regime

• Humiliation falls on Peres—and Barak, by extension