news & features

• Bills would withhold PLO, Lebanon funds

• Gun control advocates eye their target again

• Powell hosts Arafat aide in D.C.; Beilin, Erekat hit N.Y.

• Dutch insurers hand over $4 million to Calif. Shoah fund

• U.S. Report

• Organ donor advocates clarify halachah for life-saving mitzvah

• Anne Frank’s legend grows, along with some controversies

• Shoah dramas continue to compel actor Ben Kingsley

• U.K. Jewish vote undergoes shift as Labor modifies its Israel stance

• 2 rabbinical programs to open in Germany

• Israel develops a new export: international security training

• Territory violence heats up on Palestinian Nakba Day

• E*Trade Israel open for business

• New head of Berlin community turns his focus on Soviet emigres

• World Report

• Head of Yiddish paper comes ‘from a different school’

• Oxford nixes debate featuring Holocaust denier Irving

• Education minister vows to undo ‘post-Zionist’ critique

• Maccabi champs

• Mideast Report

• For Miss Israel, pageant is a prelude to basic training

• JCC mural to receive Precita Eyes award

• S.F. supe Sandoval, JCRC meet for ‘candid discussion’

• Sharansky aide goes to Capitol Hill as Koret Fellow

• Caring Community builds support at S.F.‘s Emanu-El

• Swastika at Hillel sets off Santa Cruz investigation

• Berkeley shul lands home of its own in old liquor store

• Honorary degree

• Drive intensifies to build center for South Bay senior housing

• Latina Jew is tapped for a national leadership award

• Emotions run high after poetry reading turns political

• ‘Healing the Wounds’ program in S.F. stirs Holocaust memories

• Piedmonters raise awareness of rare Jewish disease

• Israeli college head in S.F. to seek Upper Galilee aid

• S.F. rabbi’s alleged attacker arraigned; 7 felony counts

• Eternal Lights

• Israeli Arabs switch their allegiance to Palestinians

columns

• Casting off yoke of slavery means we are accountable

opinions & letters

• Israel must make peace within borders

• In the business of making traif: My year in a pork rind factory

• Listen to God’s admonition and quit meat cold turkey

supplements

• Don’t forget your first aid kit…

• Fares may be stratospheric but…

• Why do residents of religious Israeli city live longer?

• Ease into new nutritional habits one step at a time…

• B’nai mitzvah students prove that it’s ‘never too late’

• JCCs connect seniors to Internet, and grandchildren

• Reutlinger Community resident seizes life by the reins