news & features

• Yehuda Amichai, Israel’s national poet, dies at 76

• Thea Froelich, Kindertransport organizer, dies at 87

• Shul not just for ticketholders, a boy’s ingenuity shows

• Outspoken ambassador’s career filled with other flaps

• Clinton wishes a sweet New Year

• American Jews look inward to bolster identity, involvement in jam-packed year

• Orthodox day school reopens after attack

• Usher in New Year’s with fish, symbol of prosperity and fertility

• New Year’s wishes from Bush, Cheney

• New Year traditions and what they mean

• Action against diplomat Indyk pushes buttons in Jewish world

• Greetings from Gore, Lieberman

• Real Jews do cry—when they discover their hearts and souls

• Stalled vote threatens battered Jewish women’s groups

• High Holy Day Talmud tidbits and Midrash miscellany

• ‘Joe, you’re no rabbi,’ Jewish leaders warn senator

• U.S. Report

• Reminiscing over the mishpoche’s New Year resolutions

• Report: Jewish unity, cooperation on rise

• U.S. plays host again to peace negotiations

• Corrections

• The peace process and the Lebanon withdrawal both divided and united Jewish state during 5760

• Advocates for Iranian Jews refuse to abandon cause

• Prisoners’ new terms

• Barak prays for peace, safe Israel

• Sabbatical year poses challenge for Israel’s observant growers

• Year brings pope’s Israel visit, breakdown in talks Lebanon withdrawal and Lieberman nomination

• World Report

• Israelis to toast Rosh Hashanah

• Russian Chabad center signals growth of Jewish life

• Netanyahu won’t face charges, paving way for political re-entry

• 5760, year of peril as multiple crises unfurl throughout the Jewish world

• Vatican moves upset rabbis; interfaith dialogue nixed

• Iranian trial timeline since arrests

• Yugoslav Jews eagerly await an end to days of isolation

• Mideast Report

• Local sweat lodge is cleansing ritual for Holy Days

• Redwood City synagogue fights S.F. PUC

• Peninsula’s new rabbi shares his passages, passions

• Jewish drive hopes to collect 10,000 pounds of food

• Speaker in S.F. puts disputed ‘face’ on Israelis’ identity

• Is your mezuzah kosher or not? Better let the scribe check it out

• Older adults reveal creativity in Contra Costa JCC art show

• Letters, words on auction block as Adath Israel finishes Torah

• AJCongress’ Salkowitz leaving to take E. Bay social services slot

• Lieberman gets 3 kippot bought from S.F. Web site

• Musical minyan lures crowds to Berkeley

• Community to lose liberal voice as Salkowitz departs AJCongress

• S.F.-based Koret fund jump-starts Israeli businesses

• TLC and lots of hard work help create enchanted garden

• E. Bay federation welcomes 4 new faces

• German film on Righteous Gentile debuts at festival

• High Holy Day mishugas? Online tips put you at ease

• World peace mission brings Sufi sheik to Berkeley

• Lieberman may be springboard for Holy Day sermons

columns

• Starting today, mistakes belong to another lifetime

opinions & letters

• A New Year’s resolution for 5761

• Judaism takes us beyond the ‘I’m sorry’ sentiment

• Game of baseball, symbolic of life and death, brings men together