news & features

• Anthropologist, Hillel devotee Bernard Siegel dies at 85

• Brooklyn rabbi misused $700,000 grant, Feds claim

• Pipes appointed to peace institute despite Democrat, Muslim protests

• U. S. Report

• A happy Yom Kippur, courtesy of foot-in-mouth.com

• Hillel plans to renew activism in new year

• Jews cheer 10 Commandments win, but worry

• Iranian’s arrest for ‘94 bombing pleases Argentine Jews

• Hezbollah blinks, and Lebanon may quiet down

• Cease-fire vaporizes, and Israel considers all its options

• Tel Aviv bar and bomb target slowly getting its groove back

• Israel’s stealth killers make life less certain for terrorists

• Bedouin face ‘Palestinization’

• 100 years later, ‘Protocols’ still fueling anti-Semitism

• Bronze Age village, ancient Jewish homestead found

• Debate grows stronger as fence creeps forward

• Mideast Report

• Peninsula JCC turns 40, gets a new home

• Jaffa watercolorist 1st Israeli to show at Sausalito fest

• Enrollment steady at day schools, despite recession

• Rainbow workers soundly defeat Israeli goods boycott

• Berkeley mohel’s teen son hit by truck

• MID lecture series starts in San Leandro

• Jews are funnier, says golden age of comedy historian

• A rose isn’t just a rose for budding pro-Israel group

• Center to probe Nazi ties of Schwarzenegger’s dad

• Beth El tips its kippah to 1st adult b’nai mitzvah class

• Berkeley couple adopts a child—and shul—in E. Europe

• Israel’s bleak economy spurs reverse aliyah—to U.S.

• Emanu-El Food Pantry Feeting the poor

columns

• When we act compassionately, God responds to us in kind

opinions & letters

• We must be part of the rainbow

• Facing painful truths leads to deeper love of Israel

• Current injustice demands a new march on D.C.

supplements

• Low-impact exercise routine starts with walk around block

• UAHC book gives views on caring for our aging parents

• ‘Spoken Treasures’ preserves wit and wisdom of elders

• ‘Matchmaker’ links experts on aging

• Writers keep skills sharp in Jewish Home’s magazine

• Know the nuts and bolts of Social Security and SSI benefits