news & features

• S.F. philanthropist Robert Swig of real estate family dies at 39

• Portland’s population booming with Jewish influx

• Jewish pedalers cross the U.S. to toot horn for environment

• Flap over Lieberman stance revives black-Jewish tensions

• Phila. federation picks first openly gay man as head

• Gore invoked Jesus at breakfast, according to Jewish GOP senator

• U.S. report

• After yeshiva, Haredim moonlight at high-tech schools

• U.S. travel advisory lambasted; Barak labels move ‘unjustified’

• Brothers, Shoah survivors, rejoined after 6 decades

• Hungarian Jews ambivalent about identity, survey shows

• Slovaks find link to lost Judaism

• Mideast terror plans thwarted

• Peres offers China farms, not Phalcons

• Conservatives move world headquarters

• World Report

• Israeli start-ups go West for gold rush, but who profits?

• Egypt and Jordan joining effort to rekindle peace negotiations

• Is Barak’s ‘civil reform’ a risky bluff?

• Missing officer home from Israel but could face U.S. court martial

• Tenuous post-Camp David quiet bursts in West Bank

• Poles favor anti-Semitic regulations

• Levy goes under knife after resigning

• Poll: Argentines know little of Shoah

• Mideast Report

• Touch of New York coming to Novato

• New consul general ‘lucky,’ privileged to come to S.F.

• Sentencing off again for ex-JEC rabbi

• Scholar to speak in Hadassah lecture series

• Stolen ‘Portrait’ is no Rembrandt and perhaps not a rabbi, either

• BJE rabbi honored for role in fight against child abuse

• Young artists want peace in Bosnia—and Belmont

• S.F. federation reaches out to community on the Web

• Jewish guard fears he was an arson victim

• Seniors witness a ritual rarity—burying aged Torahs

• Chabot offering cross-cultural course with Jewish twist

• San Mateo police chief gets sworn in with brachah

• JCC of S.F. fortifies efforts to fight landmark status

• Correction

• Bulletin editor elected to JTA executive board

• Take a tour of ketubot with Web as your guide

• JCF may buy buildings to aid rent-strapped agencies

• How Jews blend three cultures with Asian adoptions

columns

• For Jews, giving to the poor is a simple matter of justice

opinions & letters

• Ehud Barak’s call for civil reform

• No pastrami? This ‘Survivor’ dares members of the tribe

• Secular media continue to scapegoat the Orthodox

• My, how things have changed from when I made aliyah

supplements

• Pressing business: How to take care of a wedding gown

• Do your guests a little favor—give a wedding remembrance

• Special joy for rabbis who officiate own kids’ weddings

• Want to elope but not in Vegas? Jewish couple knows hot spots

• Creating a tallit involves more than weaving cloth

• C’mon, mom, a bat mitzvah is, like, so totally uncool

• Engaging, intimate volume weaves ritual into a tapestry

• Jewish couples face challenges in ‘preserving a lasting promise’

• The fictitious ‘perfect’ wedding, and other mishugas

• Brides and other neighbors join Lieberman celebration

• Tangled in a b’nai mitzvah web? Log on for simcha answers

• Chuppah of palms, steel band give Jewish weddings a new spin

• A wedding in Poland celebrates town’s Jewish rebirth

• Bat mitzvah gifts go to the dogs…and other critters