news & features

• Dueling diplomacy:

  The left and right hold separate Mideast peace talks –

• Orthodox paradox:

  Spoken-word star’‘s a master of the risqué but it’‘s all, well, talk

• As Schwarzenegger takes command, ‘even rabbis are changing their sermons’

• Camelback sukkah, etrog orchard bring Sukkot to life in Israel’s biblical reserve

• Artful shelter

• Terror on display:

  Is bombed bus ‘‘marketing the blood’’ or showing ‘‘what’‘s really going on’‘?

• Bombed beachfront restaurant was haven for Jews and Arabs

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• Syria shock and awe:

  Bush and Sharon tag-team on Damascus should come as no surprise

• New study finds Nazis used hundreds of hospitals to kill 200 disabled, mentally ill

• Pennies for Israel adding up

• City sets rules for SFWAR — no anti-Zionist agenda

• Mideast peace debate solves little but prompts death threat

• Anti-Zionist Jews renounce aliyah in protest at JCF

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• Helping hands in Uganda:

  Recent college grad learns a positive lesson about AIDS

• Einstein doodle, Inquisition-era papers mark exhibit

• Danger! Adventure! Judaica!:

  Magnes co-founder traveled the world to find and preserve precious objects, piece by piece

• The dirt about Jews behind Napa’s figs and vines

arts

• Documentary offers gripping look at fate of Jewish refugee ship

• Morality, survival come to a head in surreal ‘Last Girl’

• Jews run (but they can’t hide) from fold in ‘Hour in Paradise’

• Provocative ‘Holy Land’ generates more heat than light

• celebrity Jews in the news

• Berlin impresario’s star-crossed tale of fame and hubris

• Definer of Zionism defends it in new book

• CD spotlights Czech Jew and the jazz scene he kept alive

columns

• Hold the hip-hop — No balloons, no dancing girls, just a call to the Torah

• jokes

• We gather for Sukkot to celebrate under God’s shelter of peace

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• Celebrating the feast of abundance: With the bounty of autumn’s harvest in a backyard sukkah

opinions & letters

• Unholy material girl dishonors our sacred tradition

• Our world is a sukkah

• Let’s not forget our family in Israel

• Can Jews gain wisdom from the Guri Guri bird?:

  Australian Aborigines and Jews have more in common than you might believe

• Grandpa Bill shares the Sukkah with Abraham, Isaac and Moses

• How God might reply to an editorial cartoon in j.

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