news & features

• S.F. student aids Magen David Adom, one dime at a time

• Bombed Jerusalem bus wins contest but loses chance to go on billboard

• Study finds more teen programs here than anyone knew

• Hungarian victims may get compensation

• Holocaust survivors around world to get token payments

• Senators dedicate Torah scroll to victims of Israeli terror and 9/11

• shorts: u.s.

• McKinney, seen as a foe of Israel, to run for her old seat in Congress

• shorts: world

• Foiled by Israel, Hamas tries new terror tactic – the use of kids

• shorts: bay area

• Contested Jewish cemetery clears major hurdle, awaits next step

• Gibson’s ‘Passion’ debated at 2 forums

• Teens heed Israel’s call; summer trip attracts 59

• The man who will decide Sharon’s fate:

  Israel’‘s prime minister could remain in office even if indicted

• Stolen memories:

  Bat mitzvah girl’‘s kippot, tallit and blankets looted

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• Race against time: Jewish community rallies for critically ill Palo Alto girl

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• ‘How I Learned to Cook’: recipes for surviving daughterhood:

  book review

• ‘Bummy’ a gripping tale of boxing knockouts, Mafia rubouts:

  book review

• Not your parents’ Judaism:

  Boomers look inward for Jewish identity and meaning

• Faith alone can’t lift cantors CD into greatness

• Is Jewishness a factor for NBC’s ‘Average Joe’?

• Hansel and Gretel tale has witches, forest and ovens – and Holocaust setting

• ‘The Grey Zone’: Director''s book of film looks at Jews who aided Nazis

• Can Elmo teach peace in the Middle East?

• ‘Culture keeps us human,’ say artists at JCCSF panel

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• Forget his right-wing politics and the NRA:
  Charlton Heston is Moses

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• What might life be like if we expected each day to bring its own miracle?

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• How can we move beyond slavery?

• Passover in Israel is an entirely different bag o’ beans

• A seder to shock and awe — and engage

• Bubbie’s Passover wisdom could have taught suicide bombers a lesson or two

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