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• COVER STORY: Rock Bottom to Recovery—Jewish family hopes to shed stigma of alcohol addiction

• Flawed plan inevitably means more bloodshed

• Wake up, Sharon — here is a chance for progress

• Bigger, better, broader—Jewish Community Library grows into new home with more books, programming

• Shorts: World

• Shorts: Mideast

• Shorts: Bay Area

• Miriam Weiss, survivor, longtime JCF employee, dies at 73

• ‘Domestic terrorism’ leads to fire at Shoah museum

• Skeptics question whether Sharon will execute ‘unilateral steps’

• The temptations of Turkey—Israel’s Islamic friend confronts a radical threat

• For years, a circus performs near Holocaust memorial — now there’s anger in Paris

• Super record—S.F.-based JCF phonathon raises $2.8 million

• At 75, Berkeley Hillel is home to 3 generations

• March of love: Americans take to Israeli streets to send message: Jews are not afraid

• Istanbul relief collection under way

• Same-sex marriage—Two opposing views

• Wooing the Jews—Democratic hopefuls court Iowa’s sparse Jewish families

• COVER STORY: Kids who fly—Thrills and spills at S.F. circus school

• Laughter, lefties and lesbians—Comedian Lisa Geduldig knows how to yuk it up, but takes her cause

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• Israel an economic model for other nations, says author

• Mediterranean tides lap against Tel Aviv’s luxury tower

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