news & features

• Brandeis backer dies at 95

• Investigators of Rich pardon question ADL’s Foxman

• Women’s studies degree program taking shape at Tel Aviv University

• Chicago cantor and wife who ran brothel plead guilty

• Catholics create guide for teaching Shoah in school

• U.S. Report

• Reproductive rights dominate full agenda at NCJW conference

• Turning in scout badge a tough call for local troops

• L.A. synagogues beef up security as terrorist trial opens

• British media accused of pro-Palestinian bias

• Pro-Palestinian e-mail virus could heighten conflict

• ‘Lucky Seder’ slated for Israeli patients

• Yeshiva U. confronts fault lines of modern Orthodoxy

• Israeli lesbians banned from child visitation win appeal

• Jews in Macedonia fear erupting conflict

• World Report

• Once a hero of Sephardi politics, Mordechai guilty of sex charges

• Mea She’arim father of 3 foils car bombing attempt

• Sherith Israel starting Jewish preschool

• ‘Silent Voices’ features reception and series of lectures

• Teens try crashing dance at JCC of S.F.‘s Club 18

• S.F. ‘Righteous Diplomats’ exhibit honors rescuers

• Jews who protest execution will head to San Quentin

• Feminist, Women of the Wall founder, will speak here

• It’s lip-biting time for athletes and parents at Maccabi tryouts

• 2 area Reform rabbis witness Jewish revival in ex-USSR

• Pluralistic school in Jerusalem pushing change, director says

• Golden-age Hollywood censor was an anti-Semite, says critic

• Frances Green to receive Jewish leadership award

• Division of JFCS honored nationally

• Pre-Pesach retreats aim to clean out ‘internal shmutz’

• Mitzvah Day to bring S.F. students together

• Ukraine rabbi to speak

• Kiev rabbi to speak here on Reform life in Ukraine

• JFCS gives survivors a helping hand—and a community

• Sharon asks Silicon Valley to boost Israel

• ‘Literary luminaries’ receive Koret awards

• Site reflects the intricacies of different kinds of families

• JFCS’ Teen Annex draws in kids for therapy, activism

• Can Jewish community bring 20s and 30s into the fold?

• Sharon wins high marks on D.C. visit

• Arafat, intifada giving AIPAC new direction

columns

• Month of Nisan reminds us to do some ‘spring cleaning’

opinions & letters

• Arafat turns Sharon, Bush into friends

• Kicking and screaming, writer sails off into sunset

• Israel’s crisis must not affect our daughters’ education

• Raindrops on roses? His Jewish favorites include tzitzit on tallis

supplements

• Hand-written thank-you notes are de rigueur for gifts

• A loaf in the oven’s a mitzvah for women who bake challah

• Read the label, be careful

• Beth Sholom congregant ascends bimah at age 13 and 20 years later

• Italian seder dishes also please Catholics

• A dream wedding needn’t create a nightmare bill

• A bat mitzvah aliyah links 3 matrilineal generations

• Make each trip a honeymoon

• On land or by sea, options abound for wedding venues

• For grooms in 2001, an updated tuxedo

• Boy’s stomach flip-flops over upcoming bar mitzvah

• Toasting the happy couple

• Should we attach our bubbe to a Bungee cord, or put her in a bumper car instead?

• Which one is better doctor or mohel?

• Set priorities, use shortcuts in Passover preparation

• Know what you’re getting into when you give her a diamond

• Ask the Rabbi   Unborn child’s future observance is worrying grandmother-to-be

• Personalize your ceremony by writing your own vows