news & features

• Survivors file lawsuit blasting Holocaust claims commission

• Educators to chat up Jewish-Arab schools

• Who loves Israel most — the president, evangelicals or Democratic hopefuls?

• In Brooklyn, Chassidim rock the sukkah

• Don’t cry invasion, Argentina – it’s anti-Semitism

• Smuggling-tunnels:

  ‘‘We are the beating heart of the intifada’’

• short:

  u.s.

• shorts:

  world

• Europe’s young Jews go to the beach to learn, kibitz and party

• Brazilian Jews spin the faith

• JCRC, ADL see anti-Israel bias in high school history text

• Film fest board members shocked by head’s resignation

• Jewish hunger relief leader to speak on advocacy

• shorts:

  bay area

• It’s a stretch:

  But 7 Jews compete for governor’‘s seat anyway

• Fun Web ways to enjoy Sukkot — and lulav shakes

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• benefits & social events

• readings

• music

• comedy

• The few, the proud — and the Jewish:

  After serving as a Marine in Iraq, nothing scares this suburban kid

• 35+ and single?:

  Put on a push-up bra and market yourself, author says

• Getting past the guilt:

  Fearing the angry angels of her childhood, a young adult takes a new look at Yom Kippur

• Happiness is a sweet sukkah and lots of love

• How to help kids observe Yom Kippur

• Sweet irony:

  Jewish soldiers in Iraq celebrate Rosh Hashanah in Saddam’‘s palace

• Mother, daughter team up for memoir about life as Palo Alto’s first Jews

arts

• Openly gay pop singer mixes spiritual, sexual

• Were artists who stayed in Germany guilty of collaboration?

• No more ‘A’ — or ambiguity — for Traveling Jewish Theatre

• Word play: TJT co-founders share the marquee for 25th anniversary collaboration

• Woody Allen’s latest offering is anything but funny

• celebrity jews in the news

• shorts

• Finding kindness, decency and holiness in divorce

columns

• Pass the chitlins, gulp a McDonald’s joe and praise the Lord, hon

• Zen Judaism

• Lessons learned from baseball ring true during High Holy Days

opinions & letters

• Recalls don’t serve us well

• Can we imbue our daily lives with a little more goodness?

• Kids flee Yizkor, but end up there eventually

• We fast to bring us into the pain, knowing we will survive

• letters

lifecycles

• deaths

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