news & features

• Klezmer bassist Matthew Sperry, 34, hit by car

• Holocaust Center co-founder Martha Cohn dies at 100

• Hillary’s tell-all saga includes some Jewish characters

• Chicago Tribune’s apology ends anti-Semitic cartoon controversy

• Jewish charities split over bill to require more giving

• U.S. Report

• Essay contest focuses on interfaith issues

• >El Al gets cash boost from privatization

• Fresh bloodshed washes over newborn peace efforts

• Belarus is burying Christians atop the remains of region’s Jews

• Jewish delegation to Moscow says Putin seeks better U.S. ties

• U.S. ‘road map’ team arrives in Mideast

• Settlers at contested outposts prepare to confront the army

• World Report

• Russians to recruit Orthodox rabbis

• Kosher bagels and baseball go hand in glove near Pac Bell Park

• Student returns from goodwill mission to Argentina

• East Bay federation to scrap ‘community chest’ model

• Harvey Milk exhibit causes uproar over Catholic imagery

• Let’s hear it for Jewish dads in Scripture, on the Web

• BRJCC stages all-nighter for Torah and Talmud talk

• Anti-Jewish double standards infuriate ADL’s Foxman

• Opening door to interfaith is critical, advocates say

• Interfaith ‘quest for peace and justice’ taking place in July

• Jews desperate for jobs turning to Buenos Aires agency

• Reservoir goal closer after JNF golf event

• Stanford archivists dig within for trove of rare Judaica

• ‘God disappeared from picture,’ says rabbi with cancer

• ‘Chabad House’ tells the tale of a local battle for survival

• Despair gives way to joy for carriers of lethal disease

• ‘Road map’ hits roadblock after week of escalating bloodshed

• Stanford researcher probes origins of genetic illness

• Now more common in non-Jews: Years of genetic testing virtually erase Tay-Sachs

columns

• Negotiating the path between austerity and hedonism

opinions & letters

• How many deaths does it take?

• Tribute to a father and unsung hero of the Holocaust

• Palestinians aren’t the only refugees from the Mideast