news & features

• Or Shalom president dies suddenly at 50

• AJCommittee seeks to expand Jewish-Latino ties

• Shoah museum exhibit takes stance on Sudan

• Activist rabbi urges Jews to back recount

• Federations begin series of support missions to Israel

• Abolishing the Electoral College: Could it really be bad for Jews?

• Correction

• U.S.Report

• Fla. election cloud’s silver lining: Jews, blacks reunite

• Los Angeles skinhead’s racist graffiti lands him in jail

• Mexico’s Jews cautiously eye first religious president

• Prominent Israeli women denounce gender violence

• Xenophobic Romanian has crack at presidency in runoff

• Fiery Canadian campaign pits Jews in tug of war game

• Amid conflict, Israel tiptoes through minefield of criticism

• Charge of ‘excessive force’ is tarnishing Israel’s image

• As election looms, Barak, opposition prepare for vote

• Wiesenthal Center calls on Putin to unseal Wallenberg files at once

• Media blamed in mosque blaze

• World Report

• Long neglected, Polish synagogue is now restored

• Israel denies claims by Egypt of involvement in espionage

• Ex-inmate sets up program to help Jews at Folsom

• What’s good for Mother Goose is good for the gander

• Teens tackle coexistence, Mideast strife at JCC Club 18

• What is a Jewish book? Panelists find no simple answer

• Vatican wants U.S. to quash Holocaust survivors’ suit

• Lavey Derby takes helm as Board of Rabbis president

• East Bay playwright to perform solo show

• AIPAC hosts four area events with Sen. Dick Durbin

• Berkeley board delays decision on Beth El till Dec. 14

• Lehrhaus classes probe concept of Jews as global citizens

• Hey, don’t touch that dial! Click the mouse instead

• Twist of fate: Arafat holds key to Barak keeping job

• Protesters force cancellation of Netanyahu talks here

• JCF visitors to Israel grapple with fatalism—and hope

columns

• Sources of our blessing as infinite as the Divine

opinions & letters

• It’s time for Berkeley to embrace free speech

• Mt. Zion hospital still exists, and so do its Jewish ties

• Haifa interfaith event-goers give unexpected ray of hope