news & features

• Daniel Patrick Moynihan, political ally of Israel, dies at 76

• Theater buff Janet Zeimer put temple at center stage

• Sharansky intervenes to save Birthright from budget ax

• U.S. Report

• With war raging, don’t neglect battles at home, say Reform rabbis

• Palestinians going to Baghdad to serve as suicide bombers

• Turkey’s new head rabbi weighs tradition against a volatile future

• Bush aides seek to allay AIPAC fears about peace plan

• It’s hard to find a minyan on a U.S. aircraft carrier at sea

• ‘Beautiful spring day’ becomes a catastrophic scene

• Being Jewish adds risk for soldiers, journalists in Iraq

• In S. Africa, Jewish rights expert calls Iraq war unlawful

• Slovenian Jews get a Passover gift: a new rabbi and Torah

• Starbucks will close in Israel

• Candidates at AIPAC affirm Jewish political might

• World Report

• A different sort of Palestine makes front-page headlines

• Siberians approach Pesach with mixed matzah memories

• War Report Jenin plaza named for bomber in Iraq

• With kids in the Gulf, Passover comes second to angst

• Anti-war fever coupled with anti-Semitism roils France

• Bush’s choice to rebuild Iraq could spur hostility to Israel

• Hate crime conviction seen as step forward in Ukraine

• Mideast Report

• Hebrew-speaking Japanese pastor intrigues Brandeis kids

• Dramatic midlife changes bring director to day school

• High-risk teens find a healing friend and judicious advocate

• Mercury News blasted over photo of bomber’s mom

• ‘Sun will rise again in Mideast,’ teen Israel trip organizer says

• Israeli doctor paves the way for treating trauma victims

• Peace, love, Birkenstocks abound at S.F. interfaith rally

• Palo Alto JCC gets $.5 million from JCEF fund

• E.Bay Israel trip still on; 9 teens scheduled to go

• Poll: Richest U.S. Jews give mostly to non-Jewish causes

• Marin doctor quits ADL after clash with leadership

• Torah crowns, stolen in Shoah, returned to area family

• Area teachers get schooled so Shoah lessons can sink in

• Premature accords led to intifada, Mideast scholar says

• Jewish agencies could lose million-plus from state cuts

• Assad places risky bet—on Saddam and against U.S.

columns

• We stand up to big demands, falling short on small ones

opinions & letters

• U.S. involved in similar war to Israel’s

• Confront rising anti-Semitism by speaking against it

• What happened to U.N. on road to millennium?

supplements

• Spice up your Pesach table with a more exotic charoset

• Egalitarian Haggadah bridges modern, traditional sede

• Passover is a holiday for learning

• The story of matzah begins in Exodus, continues online

• For Pesach Down Under, the seasons are reversed but the food is still classic