news & features

• Israel’s new U.S. ambassador is friend of the media

• Russian, Iranian emigres subject to extra U.S. scrutiny

• U.S. Report

• American Jewish groups lay low over possible U.S. attack on Iraq

• Most Jewish groups silent in response to Gaza attack

• World Report

• Jewish leaders praise tough U.S. stand on Israel at U.N.

• Reservists threaten to stay home in protest of Tal Law

• Fervently religious now joining Israel’s high-tech sector

• Tensions erupt between Russians, ‘veterans’ in Negev

• Charges fly as Holocaust claims issue drags on and on

• Court orders street signs in Arabic, Hebrew

• Israeli consulate’s ‘biz dev’ chief builds high-tech links

• Official responsible for Maccabi tragedy gets reappointed

• Latest attacks may hold up plans to ease sanctions

• Mideast Report

• Bedouin prof at Ben-Gurion voices optimism in talk here

• Unmoored lives move through author’s short stories

• Intrepid hikers discover a synagogue under the stars

• Edward Teller most proud of role as H-bomb proponent

• Lesbian group in Israel struggles to survive, leaders say in S.F.

• Conservative S.F. shul elects 1st openly gay president

• Web sites, newsgroups fan flames of Mideast crisis

• Survivors, ‘Unlikely Liberators’ to meet at S.F. exhibit

• JCC teachers receive Limud award for excellence

• Hand-carver of wooden Judaica brings craft to S.F. show

• Memoir profiles courage of a 90-year-old survivor

• Peninsula ORT installs new officers

• Enrollment drop expected Hebrew U. campus—a safe place no longer

• When your kids are in Israel, you can’t stop worrying

columns

• Does Jewish tradition avow that God acts in our lives?

opinions & letters

• Who’s to blame for Palestinian malnutrition?

• Sharon’s ‘had I known’ is pathetic, embarrassing

• Two Views: Who is to blame for deaths of innocents in Gaza? Hypocritical bleeding hearts unfairly co

supplements

• OyVeyAuctions puts the yenta factor to work online