news & features

• Mossad chief, top Israeli spy Isser Harel, dies at 91

• Pioneering L.A. Jewish journalist Herb Brin, 87

• South African Jewish leader dies

• Reform-haredi collaboration ends in bitter brouhaha

• Jews speak up at rallies tinged with anti-Israel rhetoric

• ‘We don’t talk about God, we talk about Jewish celebration’

• Americans trust Israel, not Arab nations, poll shows

• Saudi textbooks denounce Jews as racist and wicked

• U.S. Report

• Israel strikes Gaza while new Knesset takes over and diplomacy restarts

• Jews come down the ‘mountain’ in Tel Aviv to preserve culture

• U.S. Jews help Israel ready for Iraqi attack by giving blood, volunteering

• 18,000 new Ethiopians add burden for Israel

• World Report

• Mongolia has a fondness for Jews

• Jews build Uzbekistan community, but youth want out

• U.S. should stop aiding Palestinians, poll says

• Israeli sewage leak triggers nation’s severest eco-disaster

• Rowdy Golani Brigade unit faces unprecedented dissolution

• New mayor could give Orthodox control of Jerusalem

• Mideast Report

• Sonoma State University hosting Holocaust lecture series

• S.F. peace rally attracts 200,000 Rabbis say anti-war stance is not same as anti-Semitism

• Shanghai ghetto refugees revisit past at S.F. screening

• Stanford lands rare Jewish books rescued in Denmark during WWII

• Running on shoestring, Fremont’s Atid school to close

• Writer, at age 91, shares her front-row seat to history

• Rabbi reshapes traditional mold of chaplains and healers

• Israeli cartoonist proves humor is antidote to terror and tragedy

• Waiting game puts Lowell High Hebrew program in limbo

• Shmooze with authors to benefit Brandeis

• Journalist walks fine line tracking shul’s rabbi search

• Israelis see Iraq war creating boon—or doom

• 2 museums find money to go separate ways

columns

• Golden Calf episode shows the pitfalls of appeasement

opinions & letters

• Museum merger might have worked

• 1956 Suez conflict presents striking parallels to Iraq

• Palestinians may get a Holocaust denier as 1st prime minister