news & features

• Philanthropist Maxwell Cummings dies

• BBYO is becoming an independent group

• Striving for social justice the core of the American Jewish outlook

• Proselytizing remarks irk ‘faith-based’ critics

• Bent toward social justice propels formation of Amos

• Sponsor terror, lose business: Sanctions against Iran and Libya up for renewal

• Media baron’s election to top Jewish post irks liberals

• Jews in jubilation over Jeffords’ defection from GOP

• Amnesty, B’Tselem slam Israel

• Israel fest pulls plug on a Wagner opera

• World Report

• Land of milk, honey a lost dream for Ethiopian Jews

• Film wizard of Tinseltown to bring digital magic to S.F.

• Letter-writing, accusations stir tempest at Tehiyah

• Local Women in Black to rally to ‘end the occupation’

• Pound for pound, Atid kids top them all

• Koret exhibit features Tunisian Jews

• Travis AFB honors Holocaust’s 6 million

• S.F. teen hugs a Palestinian and pens 1st-prize essay

• BJE elects officers, board

• In Russia, communism fell but homophobia didn’t… ...so gay immigrants are welcomed by queer Israel

• ‘Israel in crisis’ topic at Beth Jacob

• Slippery job market focus of S.F. party

• JCRC condemns site that published Lerner’s address

• New Torah’s arrival merits parade, party

• Brandeis pen pals, midlife patients help one another

• ALSJCC will transform itself into a Russian village for one day

• Conservative women to hold daylong meeting

• Beilin blasts Sharon’s settlement policy in S.F. speech

• Soar into wild blue yonder with Israeli air force online

• Sharon’s cease-fire call answered by car bombs

• ‘Homeless looks like the rest of us,’ congregants find

columns

• As a ‘nation of priests,’ we must all serve the Almighty

opinions & letters

• Beth Jacob’s mitzvah needs copycats

• Torah encounter follows sojourn into Zen meditation

• Too much ethnic separatism can be hazardous to U.S.

• Freeze on ‘natural growth’ impractical, discriminatory

• Illegal enclaves perpetuate terrorism, cycle of violence