news & features

• COVER STORY: Photojournalist tracks Jews from Brooklyn to Uzbekistan

• A leader with a ‘soft glove,’ Rabbi Herbert Morris, dies

• Student-made sex video shocks L.A. Jewish school

• Hidden porn triggers crisis at Jeiwish school in Prague

• Munich Jews look forward to new JCC, mourn Kristallnacht destruction

• YAD volunteers conquer fear of fund-raising to answer JCF’s Super Sunday call

• Local delegates head to the G.A. in Jerusalem, despite intifada concerns

• who’s in town

• shorts — bayarea

• shorts — world

• Some shortcuts to playing the ‘Jewish geography’ game

• b’nai mitzvah

• open house

• readings

• music

• Beach, bonfires and baba ganoush attract Hebrew-speaking young adults

arts

• Photos show the human ‘heart’ of the intifada

• Shoah-inspired requiem to be performed in S.F.

• Odd fellows: An aging Holocaust survivor and a young German become fast friends in new film

• celebrity jews

• ‘Civil discourse’ film fest at SFSU was anything but civil on opening night

columns

• Sort-of-kosher diet keeps reminding me of who I am

• jokes

• Hospitality we offer reveals a society’s humanity

cook

• This Thanksgiving, don’t think of veggies only as a side dish

opinions & letters

• 28th richest man in America, George Soros, needs a Jewish connection

• Pass the shpilkes! Shlepping Yiddish to the office

• Joining in love in Jerusalem is a holy act, gay or straight

• Israeli or American? A transplant wrestles with temptation after a carefree California summer

• letters

lifecycles

• b’nai mitzvah

• Wedding

• Deaths

supplements

• Aging women get ‘attitude’ in Marin JFCS group

• New to town? JCCs ease transitions at any age

• Will you need help managing your affairs?:

  Since no one knows what’‘s ahead, it’‘s best to plan now to save yourself a lot of grief

• Santa Fe community aims at booming ‘gay and gray’ market

• Sifting through closets, and time, when a parent moves on

• Retirement-planning advice for small-business owners

• Parkinson’s patients fight for control with new drugs

• Rules don’t change later in life, but a lot else does

• Catching up:

  Even late bloomers can make retirement savings blossom

• E. Bay literacy program pairs Rossmoor tutors with grade-school students

• JNF trip for retirees scheduled for January