news & features

• U.S. clergy back measured version of Bush retaliation

• U.S. Report

• New head aims to heal an embattled Orthodox Union

• U.C. Berkeley Jews cite vocal anti-Israel activity

• AJWS-aided schools at risk in Afghanistan

• Cherry trees to honor ‘Japanese Schindler’

• After Gaza ambush, Israel halts a cease-fire that wasn’t

• Will Peres be forced to resign?

• U.K. overtures to Iran backfire, incensing Israelis, Iranians, Jews

• Historians push to make Babi Yar more than a footnote

• A decade after USSR’s fall, few miss the old regime

• Court’s ruling on vouchers could open Pandora’s box

• Disabilities, school prayer among cases before court

• MideastReport

• Grand opening of Jewish center in Solano County is bittersweet

• ‘Sunday in Park’ to foster solidarity with Israel, U.S.

• 4 synagogues to join U.S. Coming Out Day

• Families honor gays in ‘Out of the Closets’ anthology

• ‘Kol Nidrei’ touches cellist’s heartstrings, inspires CD

• Judaism, Hebrew classes begin in Berkeley

• Area survivors sign up for share of $4 million state fund

• Enhance fall festivities with Jewish visit online

• Berkeley radical likens FBI probe of her to witch hunt

• Interfaith relations conference Oct. 17

• Technion dean here to seek funding for stem cell study

• Poet’s first novel reveals anguish of survivors’ kids

• Class looks at queer culture

• Terror clouds Bush plan to back Palestinian state

• Time capsule reveals saga of early S.F. Jewry

columns

• God—and goodness—is bigger than all of this

opinions & letters

• Simchat Torah—a time to begin again

• Time to count to 10, not act out of anger

• Jews miscast as semi-apologists for world terrorists