news & features

• For a fee, Disney can offer a Mickey Mouse hechsher

• Spielberg’s Shoah foundation shifts to educational role

• U.S. Report

• A strong signal to Israel foes, Powell boycotts Durban

• Jews will miss Helms on Israel, but not at all on domestic issues

• Local Hillels expect record Birthright participation

• Top U.N. aide reveals she’s Jewish at Durban

• Tel Aviv brothels akin to ‘modern-day slave trade’

• Artist blends love of Israel, California in festival logo

• Jerusalem mayor tours gay center, calls flag torching ‘a barbaric act’

• Russian Jews charge Solzhenitsyn with altering history

• Jewish heritage gets the spotlight Sunday around Europe

• Warning to Knesset: When abroad, don’t look Jewish

• Prague leaders consider lawsuit against N.Y. travel guide writer

• World Report

• Israelis urged to seek protection by reading psalms

• For gay Israeli youth, suicide rate soars high

• IDFindictment for Palestinian abuse hailed by B’Tselem

• Doomed tourism’s domino effect

• Bush Mideast stance has Arabs alleging pro-Israel bias

• Cost of purchasing apartments in Israel down at least 15 percent

• Mideast Report

• Area Hillel leaders brace for difficult year on campus

• Board urges Alameda council to drop religious invocation

• Pose religious questions or probe politics on the Net

• JCRC elects new officers; David Steirman is president

• Russians voice optimism on hate issues at S.F. program

• Lafayette rabbi laments fate of fellow Argentine Jews

• A day of firsts: 22 kids nosh, pray, pose as JCHS opens

• Despite shaky economy, area federations raise a bundle

• Lecture topics in Palo Alto: Ruth, Job and Maimonides

• Envious of son, Marin dad starts adult education series

• Bay Area urged to join in U.S.-Israel solidarity rally

• Martial arts and music help shape new rabbi’s spirit

• Does surge of violence portend a Mideast war?

• From the secular world to Jewish communal service

columns

• By repaying gifts of kindness, we convey gratitude to others

opinions & letters

• A harangue is not a dialogue

• Israel, don’t have a hissy fit about U.S. hirsute politics

• AIDS in Africa reminds us it’s a Jewish trait to act up

supplements

• Fairgoers can fabricate the pieces of a larger, Jewish community quilt

• New Bridges deepens ex-Texan’s Jewish life

• 5-figure crowds expected at Palo Alto Jewish fair

• Adults, kids can enjoy hands-on fun at fair

• To hear a good story, head to the Palo Alto fair