news & features

• Gladys Blumenthal, fun-loving backer of Beth El, dies

• Seeds of Peace camp founder John Wallach dead at 59

• Quartet diplomats have difficulty finding peace formula

• U.S. investigating pilot in S.F. who blocked Israeli from plane

• Rabbis’ threat to sue FBI reflects outrage at L.A. shooting

• Amnesty decries Palestinian ‘crimes against humanity’

• Firing of 2 Israeli academics stirs furor over boycott

• Federal court validates state Holocaust insurance policy

• Russian Jews of the world try to forge unity group

• Was Toronto murder a hate crime or a random act?

• World Report

• Mideast Report

• MTV reality show miffs girls at Jewish sorority in Davis

• Educators say relevance is key to turning teens on

• BJE elects new board

• Tenderloin legend searches for his lost Jewish identity

• Oh, heavens! Jews make mark in outer space

• Ex-Zen Center abbot opens up to psalms, Judaism

• Some Albertson bakeries go kosher though not yet in the Bay Area

• Conservative rabbis reaching out to interfaith couples

• JCC pool will reopen with new guidelines for swimmers

• Professor spreads Holocaust awareness to non-Jews

• Rabbi imports scribe to protect against world ‘disaster’

• D.A. drops charges against 3 in May SFSU debacle

• Inmates protest ‘de facto segregation’ at San Quentin

• Piedmont man meets fellow WWII evacuated kids

• Jewish Film Festival: This year, its focus is on women

• New attacks spur debate on use of military in West Bank

columns

• Going above and beyond in serving Diety, humanity

opinions & letters

• Amnesty International finally fair

• Funding benefits Judaism, advances multiculturalism

• Two Views: Should Jews support school voucher movement? Let’s aid Jewish education but not with tax

supplements

• Who’s retiring? Many prefer day jobs to afterlife of retirement

• Seniors spend more than other age groups

• Rossmoor residents join Mideast fray on the home front

• New exams, drugs help prevent osteoporosis-induced fractures

• Leave work but not the workout, says octogenarian M.D.

• Using positive thinking to combat problems of aging

• Battlefields of the Pacific draw tourists, WWII veterans

• ‘Old girls’ network provides friendship, vital aid

• Factors in the development of ‘silent’ bone disease