news & features

• COVER STORY: Our Chanukah section: Stories on Menorah Man, jelly donuts vs. Krispy Kreme and interfa

• This Chanukah, groups focus on charity

• What a doll! Holiday card’s all dressed up for fun

• Holiday marks challenges, changes in Judaism

• Berkeley mayor’s attendance at pro-Israel event sparks protest

• Palestinian Saddam Hussein seeks change in his name

• Post-Saddam: What’s next for Israelis and Palestinians?

• Kehillah High loses lease; must relocate by 2005

• shorts: bay area

• shorts: u.s.

• shorts: mideast

• South Africa’s new Chief rabbi is 32 years old

• Marin synagogue adopts orphans of terror

• 500 turn out to support kosher-intense supermarket

• Hotly debated Contra Costa cemetery on hold, for now

• Survivor who lost his family and toes but found joy in sharing story dies

• Orthodox inmate fights the law to keep kosher — and wins

• Israeli plot to kill Saddam disclosed after his capture

• Festival of unity: Haifa coexistence party a ''longing for something better''

• Death penalty still stirring passions

• b’nai mitzvah

• etc.

• benefits &  social events

• music

• comedy

• Local teens head to Chile for Maccabi Games

• Life coaches meld spirituality, practicality to help answer burning questions

arts

• Menorah Man to the rescue:

  40 years later, a kid’‘s comic-book dream comes true

columns

• We are at our best only when we face life’s difficulties

• In suicide’s shadow, God, grief and guilt come to light

opinions & letters

• Krispy Kremes vs. the traditional Chanukah jelly donut

• Chanukah gift-giving is worth the price if it strengthens our identity

• Rabbi Saul White pierced armor of S.F.‘s assimilationist mentality

lifecycles

• wedding

• b’nai mitzvah

• deaths