news & features

• Artful Dodger:

  Baseball’s ‘Subway’ Sam strikes out batters, and with the ladies’ too

• shorts — mideast

• shorts — world

• Drowning in history:

  Details overload exposé of America’‘s shocking treatment of the ‘‘unfit’’

• From Long Island to Auschwitz:

  American eugenics and the slaughter of Jews

• Anti-Semitism on ice?:

  Successful Israeli skaters often get a chilly response, says expert

• Cover story: ‘Death mask’:

  Nazi’‘s guinea pig comes face to face with nightmare from the past

• Questionable philanthropy:

  Ford Foundation grants fuel anti-Zionist groups, study shows

• deaths

• Israel Asper, Canadian media mogul, dies

• Happy losers:

  Seven Jews who hoped to be governor wonder, who voted for them anyway?

• u.s.

• Christians, neoconservatives push for tougher terror tactics

• mideast

• world

• shorts:

  bay area

• Al-Jazeera not ‘all bin Laden, all the time,’ D.C. bureau chief says

• b’nai mitzvah

• jewish calendar

• etc.

• benefits &  social events

• readings

• Journalist hangs out with soldiers, teenagers and prostitutes in effort to reveal the real Israelis

• Rabbinical past revised:

  Wesley Clark corrects Jewish heritage remarks

• Kid-friendly activities for Shemini Atzeret, Simchat Torah

• Snapshot of a chance friendship:

  Photo reunites slave-camp survivor with liberator

• In need of healing? Recite psalms, rabbis suggest

arts

• For many Jews, the promised land was California

• Kafka’s cockroach has a comic-book metamorphosis with intriguing but flawed results

• celebrity jews

• Love and gender get crossed in comic ‘Man is a Woman’

• History books show kids a world of wisdom, cruelty and hope

columns

• If you believe, life has meaning — despite its pains and losses

• jokes

• Why is this the time to rejoice with the Torah?

cook

• Busy people know secret to good cooking — the one-dish meal

opinions & letters

• SFWAR learning what could be a costly lesson

• Science needs a spiritual conscience

• Why is Jordan praised while Israel is vilified?

• Letters

lifecycles

• wedding

• b’nai mitzvah

• births

supplements

• From crisis to state-of-the-art: Can-do administrator helps put JCC of S.F. on solid footing in a spanking new building

• Lunchbox notes offer kids a warm fuzzy and a way to cope