news & features

• ‘Subway’ Sam Nahem, ballplayer and union man, dies at 88

• Shorts: U.S.

• Bush waits for dividends — Israel struggles to deliver

• Vanunu: Hero or traitor?

• Palestinians try to find unity in the chaos

• Ahead of Likud vote, Sharon rides momentum — thanks to Netanyahu

• Schwarzenegger, in L.A., raps anti-Semitism

• who’s in town:
  Children of ‘Oasis of Peace’ to speak in Bay Area

• Shorts: Bay Area

• Sharansky gives students ammunition to defend Israel’s reputation:

  Former dissident on campus tour

• Unable to bring armed guards, Sharansky nixes SFSU speech

• Palestinian journalist blasts Arafat, Arab corruption

• True grit: Beating hurdles, Berkeley shul set to build

• Diaries reveal Truman’s threats to cut ties with Israel: President sought return of displaced Palestinians

• For daters in a hurry, four minutes is plenty of time

• B’nai Mitzvah

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arts

• Survivor’s memoirs recall close calls with death:

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• Bookies, bakers and baseball: A Bronx memoir:

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• Culture clash amid the Orthodox:

  Best-selling author plays out intergenerational one-upmanship game in ‘‘The Outside World’’

• It may be 13, but Comedy Central’s ‘Bar Mitzvah Bash!’ still pretty juvenile:

  tv

• Musical’s premiere brings Borscht Belt to Berkeley High: theater

• ‘Shiksa’ author exposes complex role of non-Jewish women: author

• Israeli’s ‘family collapse’ inspires directorial debut: film

columns

• Celebrity Jews

• Puppy-dog tales:: Near-death experience puts us within whisper of a divine mystery

• Jokes

• Why should we wait until mourning to purify our speech?

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• No better way to wish Israel happy birthday than with a multicultural menu

opinions & letters

• The good and bad of it all

• Independence spray: holiday hilarity and hijinks

• Bush and Sharon met — so what did Israel gain?:

  caroline glick

• Sharon and Bush have handed the Palestinians a mother lode of opportunities

• Letters

lifecycles

• Deaths

• Weddings

• B’nai Mitzvah

supplements

• Austrian finds a way to rectify pain of Shoah

• Christians, Muslims, Jews come to aid of Denver synagogue after vandalism

• Helping others, keeping busy motivate octogenarian volunteers

• From practice to theory, and back again:

  Experience in Ukraine, Honduras guides career path of S.F. law student

• How you can help

• S.F. volunteer couple:
  ‘It’s like the Clintons; when you have the one, you have the two’

• Tzedakah translates as lifestyle for Berkeley teen