news & features

• Shorts: Mideast

• Shorts: World

• Jerusalem in jeopardy?:

  Many are shunning Israel’‘s capital

• ‘It’s like a bad dream’:

  Deported mom, weeping in St. Petersburg interview, still hopes for legal return to S.F.

• COVER STORY
  New Peninsula JCC ready to open with 4,000 members: Sandstone, palm trees and a $47 million vision

• Gay Jews line up for Massachusetts marriage licenses

• Lantos’ Holocaust comments spawn squabble with Austria

• Alan King was model for Jerry Seinfeld and Billy Crystal

• George Beckerman, Dachau survivor, dies at 82

• Shorts: U.S.

• Congressional Democrats lend their ears to Jewish leaders

• Stanford and others challenge Ford Foundation guidelines

• Shorts: World

• Shorts: Mideast

• Is Gaza the new Lebanon?: Carnage recalls earlier military tragedy

• Former IDF colonel addresses local groups: who's in town

• Identity is the question

• Community Shavuot observances

• Trader Joe’s pulls Empire Kosher poultry from Western stores

• Tears, smiles at dedication of Marla Bennett garden

• Governor’s efforts help seal deals with Israeli firms

• Was Berg targeted as a Jew?

• COVER STORY:
  It’s a sad song for South America’s Jewish communities

• Outreach to African, Asian Jews is music to rabbi’s ears

• B’nai Mitzvah

• etc.

• Readings

• Music

• Dance

• Comedy

• Locals honored with HUC-JIR degrees

• Bulding a bridge of peace by studying Arabic in Israel

• Snipping for tzedakah: 3-year-old donates hair to nonprofit aiding sick children

• Kid power: Lag B''Omer field day draws more than 1,000 day-school students, from San Rafael to San Jose

arts

• Documentary puts at-risk Israeli teens in spotlight:

  film review

• ‘Journey’ to Holy Land takes sad detour through the mall:

  film review

• Argentine director unearths poignant tale from his childhood:

  film review

columns

• Faces

• Despite our failings,Torah allows us to have a second chance

• Celebrity Jews

• Did I encounter the Shechinah or hallucinate from too many cookies?

• Jokes

• Judaism also asks that we find the unique path God has created for us

cook

• Enliven a barbecue by melding American, Israeli favorites

• Blintzes for Shavuot — traditional, low-fat and even dairy-free

opinions & letters

• Letters

• Enough talk about fighting anti-Semitism; let’s act

• The Soviet rescue:

  Our finest hour and a lesson for today

• Israelis are from Mars, Californians are from Venus :

  a local voice

• Letters

lifecycles

• Deaths

• B’nai Mitzvah

• Birth

supplements

• Calling all centenarians — Loews has a deal for you

• Israeli olive oil makes its way to the Rockies

• Kibbutzim lure members with concept of home ownership

• Israel’s commercial property market in recovery

• Investment in Israeli high-tech on the rise

• Orthodox move in on trading-card frenzy

• Coach-mentors help get entrepreneurs up and running