news & features

• Leader of Argentine Jewish community dies at 57

• Frank Lautenberg looks back on 18 years in Senate

• Kahane extremists attract visitors to Web site with anti-left ‘games’

• Virginia Republican says ‘Jews are not monolithic’

• Violence at KKK rally vexes Jewish leaders

• N.Y. congressman backs strong U.S. ties with Israel

• Wiesel to Conservative women: ‘Do not stand idly by’ on Iran

• Tuition-free day school breaks new ground

• ‘Shabbat’ shalom

• Survey indicates why U.S. Arabs back Bush

• Bush’s top pick for defense chief has strong Israel ties

• U.S. Report

• Californian vows to unite a House divided

• Universities contemplate risks, value of study in Israel

• Pollard backers seek clemency as Clinton’s term ends

• San Diegan will bring health-care advocacy to House

• Orthodox activist calls settlements ‘a big mistake’

• Soldiers’ deaths push parents into peace movement

• Dutch who hid Jews from Nazis honored as Righteous Gentiles

• Alarmed by magnate’s arrest, Russian Jews vow to persevere

• British Airways keeps regular flight schedule to Israel

• Jews join protest of Haider’s audience with pope

• A pinch of optimism returns as Mideast talks resume

• Clinton, Barak pressed to back world criminal court

• Quebec politician ridicules Jews

• Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ publisher under fire in Slovakia

• Barak’s social ‘revolution’ put on back burner amid violence

• World Report

• ‘Palestine,’ not Israel, gets cast into the sea in Wal-Mart globe

• Latvia moves forward to extradite war crimes suspect

• S. African Jewish museum opens

• Israel enticing U.S. tourists, saying country is safe

• Prison sentence unlikely for former JEC director Pil

• 8 ways to light up the holiday

• Library books take on new life in SFSU reading room

• Local causes receive unexpected Chanukah windfall

• Marriage classes to begin in Belmont

• JFCS provides counseling on marriage, divorce

• ALSJCC relocation proceeds, despite conflicts

• Effects of divorce last well into adulthood, expert says

• Parents’ juvenile behavior can worsen pain of divorce

• ‘Kosher sex’ rabbi and Faye Kellerman to speak here

• ‘Doing mitzvahs’ propels supe Peskin

• Survivors’ memoirs evoke raw emotion of World War II

• Berkeley certifies Beth El EIR; use permit next hurdle

• Berkeley-Richmond JCC hangs up on Sprint antennas

• Temple hosting bone marrow donor registry

• Israel trip leaders in S.F. try to stem tide of bail-outs

• Beth El to feature show on Maccabee

• Jews off the beaten track expand horizons on Web

• Jews react positively to Colin Powell - in public

• No Dec. 29 paper

• Israel election: Is everybody in the race?

columns

• Let us be reflective, present, during the festival of lights

opinions & letters

• Bring a little light into the world

• Trip to Jewish ‘homeland’ reawakens writer’s senses

• A lifetime of chanukiot, from brassy to exquisite

• Chanukah bushes are contrary to the Maccabees’ revolt