news & features

• Activist of underground Jewish movement, Irgun, dies at 86

• Late-blooming artist Gertrude Bleiberg dies in Palo Alto

• Israelis head to D.C. for strategic talks

• El Al airlines offers 30 to 40% savings

• Activists put finishing details on massive pro-Israel rally

• After Lanner case, Orthodox less silent about sex abuse

• With racism forum set to begin, Jewish leaders brace for worst

• U.S. Report

• Resignation of faith-based leader dismays U.S. Jews

• Thieves won’t return Chagall until there’s Mideast peace

• House committee asks Barak for details on Rich pardon

• For an Israeli, leaving the house means ‘I could be next’

• Israeli CEOs are taking their staffs to the golf course for tee time

• World Report

• Mideast Report

• Israel trip is canceled, but teens bounce back, landing summer jobs

• Beth Israel’s ‘young’ rabbi relishes challenge of new job

• Camp Tawonga offers weekends for families, singles

• Galilee’s JCF reps say region is relishing a little peace

• BJE to hold forum on special needs

• JFCS celebrates opening of ‘one-stop shop’ for all ages

• Can’t go to Israel? Buy a bond, says Web developer

• JNF to honor Tom Lantos

• E. Bay federation still searching for its dream campus

• Synagogues team with food banks for holiday drive

• Young Chabadnik’s teach-in offers taste of yeshiva life

• ‘Healing journey’ exorcises demons of the Holocaust

• Online tales tell nachas, mishugas of matchmaking

• Benefactor purchases $20 million S.F. campus for JCHS

• Free tuition for first 2 years of high school

• Peres-Arafat meeting offers a ray of hope

columns

• Deciding who is to serve as the judge of our souls

opinions & letters

• A stunning gift from a benefactor

• Improv class preps writer for Holy Day repentance

• DiIulio’s listening talents doomed him in Washington

• A Jewish woman’s place is everywhere, so let’s teach it

supplements

• Jewish weddings conjure up thoughts of corned beef

• Artist takes up new craft: the ceremonial wedding ring

• Ukrainian teen finds time for bat mitzvah at Camp Swig

• Berkeley couple’s chuppah is hand-stitched with love

• 13 years mark milestones for a woman named Deborah

• Being b’nai mitzvah means being an adult

• Ask the Rabbi: If I can’t have kids, why must we both be Jewish?

• Slovak townspeople celebrate first Jewish wedding in 60 years

• Kids’ activity books offer fun for holidays

• The romance of Jewish weddings revealed at Skirball