news & features

• Heir to get painting confiscated by Nazis

• At Hillary fete, Jewish supporters cheer their victory

• Groups try to guard their virtual doors from hackers

• Florida Jews may hold the key to the White House

• Donors brainstorm new ways to generate enrollment for the day school alternative

• Strong Connecticut peace advocate loses House race

• Jews in the next House

• New faces offset losses as Jews gain seats in Congress

• Jews in the new Senate

• U.S. Report

• New institute to aid Jewish life in South

• Putting a Jewish slant on exit polling across the U.S.

• Yugoslavia’s aging Jews can still expect a difficult future

• Israel’s economy takes a hit, tourism takes a blow

• Israelis to help scientists

• Polish survivors to get restitution claim help

• Will turbulence devastate Israel’s high-tech industry?

• Slovakia’s Jews ask Germany to return stolen money

• Anguished families plead case of their kidnapped sons

• Assassin regrets he didn’t kill Rabin earlier

• Auschwitz, place of memory, vs. Oswiecim, a living city

• Thousands honor Rabin in Tel Aviv

• World Report

• ‘Spoon’ psychic seeing red over Pokemon villain

• 10 years later, Reform Jews thrive in former Soviet land

• U.S. point man on Middle East plans to quit top post

• Lantos heads fight against global bigotry

• IDF soldiers dodge questions, not stones, while in S.F.

• Film looks at Iranian Jews in U.S.

• Sonoma authors to be focus of Jewish book festival

• Cuban Jews examined in documentary

• 800 Jews, Catholics join Rodef Sholom ‘Mitzvah Day’

• Solidarity mission to Israel finds disillusionment, hope

• At Marin event, Israelis take hard look at coexistence

• Mideast briefing canceled

• S.F candlelight vigil marks 5th yahrzeit of Yitzhak Rabin

• Pil hearing postponed for fifth time since December

• UCSC conference studiesLatin American films, books

• Married writers to discuss craft at CCJCC book fest

• Take a look at hate groups, story of ill-fated ship, online

• Lieberman didn’t draw many extra Jewish votes

• Jews join charge to depose Cossack logo

• Can Clinton, a lame-duck, pull miracle in Mideast?

columns

• Let us go forth with peace through worldwide prayer

opinions & letters

• We need a president for all of us

• Listen, Ehud Barak, you are no David Ben-Gurion

• An all-Arab attack on the Jewish state is chilling possibility

supplements

• Fairy-tale weddings come true in movies

• Triplets share 3 times the fun in 3 successive b’not mitzvah

• Choose music that speaks to your heart and soul

• Israeli mixed couple hold a civil ceremony

• Marriage over 40 isn’t about fantasies, but it’s special

• Ask the rabbi My ‘mixed’ marriage is making my mom crazy planning details

• Bridal news on diamonds, boutonnieres

• A bat mitzvah mother’s letter and the story of a tallit

• The brit benefits health and spirit

• Scholar-in-residence transforms bat mitzvah weekend