news & features

• Cover Story: Lords of the Ring:

  Meet the Ruby’s, a nice Jewish family — unless you’re wrestling them

• Hebrew hoopsters — A Disney spin on yeshiva basketball

• shorts — mideast

• Kabbalah’s big kahuna — Berkeley scholar plunges into heart of mystical text

• Cover Story: It’s all about connection, baby:

  Friendster’‘s the place online where you can swap your friends

• deaths

• Ukraine acts to remember ‘the tragedy of the Jewish people’

• Swastika-scrawling vandal targets anti-Zionist group

• Proudly secular, S.F. man finds sacred surprise in Old Country

• shorts:

  bay area

• From Noah’s bones to Israeli poems, women bond at peace congress

• Find some friends and make a tribe

• He didn’t create a site to meet chicks, but founder says a ‘sugar mama would be cool’

• A life exposed:

  From student stripper to respected professor, lesbian historian bares her own secrets

• Israeli consul general, under fire, defends Beilin visit

• The outsider — Baghdad-born writer Sami Michael a living conduit between Israel’s Arabs, Jews

• Celebrating the happiness of the couple — and the community as well

• b’nai mitzvah

• etc.

• benefits & social events

• readings

• music

• Fatherhood never ends — even when the kids are grown

arts

• Widow, homeless man find love on a park bench in ‘Friends’

• Uruguayan Jews recall the horror that was Treblinka

• The schedule of the 15th Contra Costa Jewish Book Festival

• Book fest highlights authors in Bay Area’s backyard

• celebrity jews

columns

• Jews for Jesus? Shame on them for engaging in trickery

• jokes

• These kids have it right — words can be hurtful, or holy

cook

• Food really does make a celebration special, whether big or small

opinions & letters

• Yossi Beilin, neither a hero nor a traitor

• letters

lifecycles

• 50th anniversary

• b’nai mitzvah

supplements

• Feel more at ease at b’nai mitzvah with guest guide

• Jewish mystical texts reveal secrets of intimacy

• The real nitty-gritty work of marriage begins after you say ‘I do’

• Wearing romantic gift of Jewish star turns life-altering

• Retreat aims to turn good Jewish marriages into great ones

• Practicing yoga together

• Couples pursue yoga, spa treatments on honeymoon

• Observing Shabbat when Shabbat when friends don’t

• Forget the engraved pen:

  — some pointers on gifts for today’‘s b’‘nai mitzvah

• Picking the perfect band

• Tuned in:

  Entertainers say listening may be the most important part of their job