news & features

• Gert Marcus, Daly City volunteer cantor, dies at 77

• Spiritual leaders convene to achieve peace through faith

• Group sues supremacists for damages

• Chabad camps electrify many Jews, not just Lubavitch

• U.S. report: Bin Laden’s network is training terrorists for Hamas

• Congress urged to pass hate-crimes law this session

• U.S. Report

• Greens chose Jewish V.P. before Demos

• Can Barak stay afloat until a peace agreement is signed?

• German agents discover Iraqi missile plant

• World Report

• Deadly raid on West Bank shows limits of cooperation

• Europe promotes Jewish heritage on Sunday

• Parched Israel thirstily digs for water solutions

• Man confesses he torched sex sites to purify Tel Aviv

• Munich massacre’s echoes heard amid Sydney’s jubilee

• Mideast Report

• New artists get inspired by a lifetime of experience

• Feinstein: Don’t recognize unilaterally declared state

• Marin director, actor address anti-Semitism shadowing Shylock

• Anti-Semitic message found in Chico campaign office

• What’s in a name? Public school honors Fresno rabbi

• Beth David crafts a spiritual, joyous itinerary for its new Torah

• JCC in Palo Alto pushed one step closer to eviction

• Family connection brings Canadian Torah to Santa Cruz

• Jewish artists, craftspeople to show in Sausalito festival

• Law professor pens memoir of civil rights-era struggles

• JCC of S.F. gets a new ally in building quest: the mayor

• Spotlight to fall on Gore-Bush, Israel’s future at S.F. conclave

• AIPAC conference to take place Sunday, Sept. 10 at Westin St. Francis

• Redding neighborhood flooded by neo-Nazi materials

• Jewish Coalition for Literacy looking for more volunteers

• Israeli entrepreneurs, alumni of Technion institute deepen ties to booming Silicon Valley

• Internet revolutionizing radio and Jewish culture

• Jews debate: Is Lieberman over the top on religion?

• Synagogues face teacher shortages—once again

• Hadassah Lieberman’s family history disputed

columns

• Torah offers ethics, rules, so all is fair in love and war

opinions & letters

• Keep religion out of politics

• Rights guarantees critical for religious and secular

• Badly conceived formal law would be harmful to nation

supplements

• A native watches Judaism blossom on the Peninsula

• Artist blends Judaism with feminist themes

• Singer returns to childhood favorite: Mizrachi music

• Variety of parenting workshops offered in Palo Alto

• Palo Alto Jews celebrate their Peninsula presence with an all-day cultural fair

• Hadassah to present series on Jewish text and culture