news & features

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  ISRAEL IN THE BALLPARK:

  special supplement

• Actor Tony Randall, born Rosenberg, dies at 84

• U.C. Berkeley professor emeritus dies at 93

• Freak accident claims U.C. historian Zelnik

• Ruling on ‘idolatrous’ wig hair creates frenzy in Orthodox world

• At AIPAC parley, Bush receives hero’s welcome

• Exhibit traces Nazi quest for ‘master race’

• Likud’s Gaza rejection may actually speed withdrawal:

  analysis

• Some worry that listing of super-rich Russian Jews is bad news

• Shorts: Bay Area

• Where’s the challah?:

  Albertson’s shoppers upset over loss of kosher bakery

• Salkin to head Goldman fund

• Clergy get hate mail over LGBT interfaith conference in Aptos

• Arson at Chabad House:

  ‘‘I just want him to get better,’’ say Langers of accused son

• Israel launches biggest move into Gaza since ‘67

• B’nai Mitzvah

• Reading

• Music

• Dance

• East Bay bikers join eco-ride across Israel

arts

• Holocaust litigation book definitely not recreational reading

• Shorts: the arts

• RebbeSoul’s sounds:
  strange but moving melange

• Post-war paradox:

  Liberated Jews feeling ‘‘safe among the Germans’’

• Hungarian Jewish writers look at survival after suffering

• A ‘bagelly Jew’:

  Actor Jeffrey Tambor rolls with the punches, can’‘t resist shtick

• Painful miracle: Documentary captures stories of Kindertransport survivors

columns

• Celebrity Jews

• Finally, the surname Pine feels right, even though it was a fluke

• Jokes

opinions & letters

• There’s an ugly job to be done in Rafah:

  editorial

• Shavuot reminds us to take the Torah to heart, every day

• Gaza gambit:

  It’‘s called tactics, Sharon-style

• Big hitters on both sides court the small Jewish swing vote

lifecycles

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• B’nai Mitzvah

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