news & features

• New Dershowitz book extracts reasons and results of terrorism

• New York Jews commemorate 9/11 anniversary with ancient prayers, fresh hope and brand new Torah

• Chicken soup: good for the pre-fast meal

• After 9/11, Congress targets U.S. security matters while other issues are left out

• Amid the horror of the World Trade Center attacks Jewish social services help Jews and non-Jews alik

• Nonprofits find Web fund-raising is the road to success

• 9/11 forced a Bush administration policy ‘evolution’ o stronger support for Israel’s struggle agains

• Australia halts Holocaust denier

• Israeli court OKs deporting terrorists’ kin to Gaza

• At U.N. eco-summit, Palestinians focus on propaganda

• Standards fight splits S. African Orthodox

• Zagreb Jews get a mikvah

• Cologne rebuilds its Jewish heritage

• Russian Jews ponder benefit of land restitution bill

• Israeli ambassador to Poland is ‘smothered in love’

• For Israelis, back to school means fear and anticipation

• In year of terror, Israel develops stronger U.S. ties while United States sends tough message to Ara

• Highlights of Jewish news around the world during 5762

• Romania bans busts honoring ex-dictator

• FBI: Terror has always been focus in El Al attack inquiry

• Crimean synagogue reaching out to youth, unaffiliated

• British rabbi’s remarks raise questions on Jewish debate

• 5762: a year of attacks and renewal of anti-Semitism leaves European Jews with unsettling state of m

• Israel stays quiet, wary of U.S. attack on Iraq

• Wanted in Winnipeg: more Jewish families

• Mideast Report

• Gays in vanguard of pluralism, Israeli activist says in S.F.

• Two Jewish students join Berkeley City Council race

• Israeli morale ‘stronger than ever,’ WZO head says here

• Calif. soccer league praised for handling holiday conflict

• Enjoy family fun online with stories, puzzles, games

• Rabbi to lead area clergy in post-9/ll talks

• Rabbi, volunteers bring Judaism home to the elderly

• 9/11 poses dilemma for September b’nai mitzvah here

• Mitzvah Day helps pave the way toward forgiveness at Beth Jacob

• Stories from minyan give glimpses into Jewish lives, souls

• Rep. George Miller explains Mideast vote in Vallejo

• Young rabbi rejuvenates S.F.‘s oldest Orthodox shul

• Holocaust reparations bill sails through Assembly

• Now blind, 85-year-old artist gets new vision from memory

• Friends remember Marla Bennett’s life at a U.C. Berkeley memorial service

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• Past Adath Israel president takes top seat of B’nai B’rith

columns

• 1882 Emma Lazarus poem offers New Year’s wisdom

opinions & letters

• 5763: Hope can trump despair

• Rosh Hashanah is just in time for the real new year

• May the language of peace be spoken soon in Mideast

• The blasts of five shofarim awaken family to new hopes