news & features

• Shorts: U.S.

• White supremacist with local ties to hate crimes found guilty:

  ‘Justice is working’

• Gone, but not forgotten –
  Israel mourns its fallen soldiers

• Shorts: World

• Shorts: Mideast

• Students vent about anti-Semitism, but express hopes for future

• Israeli pluralism advocate to speak at JCCSF:

  Who’‘s in Town

• Shorts: Bay Area

• Locals join thousands at D.C. pro-choice rally

• Searching for ‘Jew’:

  Google duel shows challenge of the digital age

• Organizers hope Israeli Cultural Day will build bridges, not barriers

• New home for Stanford Hillel in the works:

  Bye bye basement

• Gaza strategy has consequences for Bush, Kerry, Sharon and Arafat

• Brandeis Hillel rallies to make bat mitzvah dream come true

• COVER STORY:
  I-Gor! I-Gor!: From Hebrew Academy playground to NFL playbook

• B’nai Mitzvah

• etc.

• Benefits &  Social Events

• Readings

• Music

• Dance

• Comedy

• ‘Married’ children: Temple teaches lifecycle lesson with mock wedding for kids

• Formidable ‘Matza Balls’ Frisbee squad floating to the top

• Gay Genesis: Orthodox rabbi offers his queer take on Creation story

arts

• A life interrupted

• Young Oakland filmmaker heads to Cannes

• ‘Broken’ family walks tightrope between disaster and reconciliation:

  film review

• Ghost with the most:

  Mean, lean ‘‘Dybbuk’’ production packs a lot of punch

• ‘We lift each other in surprising ways’: Acrobatic dance trio Galumpha more than the sum of its parts

• A ‘Passion’ of our own: Before Mel, there was Morse, a Jew whose 1879 play rocked S.F.

• ‘The Passion of the Christ’ coming to Tel Aviv

columns

• Faces

• Celebrity Jews

• Since when did suicide bombing become a game of any kind?

• Jokes

• Don’t look at the elders among us as a burden:
  They deserve respect

cook

• Planning a celebration? Have your cake, and let your guests eat it, too

opinions & letters

• Choice under siege

• For this Israeli, it’s back to Schwartz

• Carter’s Mideast remarks show he’s out of touch

• Enough Holocaust museums:

  a local voice

• Letters

lifecycles

• Engagement

• B’nai Mitzvah

• Birth

• Deaths

supplements

• Brit milah rite starts with finding a good mohel

• Seven flicks for seven couples:

  S.F. Jewish film fest director’‘s wedding favorites

• ‘I do’ don’ts:

  Advice from women who’‘ve been down the aisle

• ‘The Torah is portable; Israel is not’:

  On becoming a bat mitzvah at Robinson’‘s Arch

• Wearing your mother’s gown can add meaning to a wedding

• Top 25 fears at a Jewish wedding

• Kitchen aids:

  These books can help newlyweds with basics

• Celebrate your b’nai mitzvah and help Israel, too

• Menopause can mark a moment of gaining wisdom

• Sheva brachot: Newlyweds play king and queen for a week