news & features

• New Jewish Agenda founder Roublev dies at 69

• Non-kosher critters may make New York City tap water traif

• French monument to Jewish soldiers defaced with swastikas

• Shorts: Mideast

• Conversion controversy:

  Kansas City rabbi quests to convert ‘‘lost’’ Sephardic Jews

• Egypt to the rescue in Gaza?

• State budget pinches local agencies, but they feared worse

• Shorts: Bay Area

• Lantos skips CCSF graduation after threatened protests

• Antarctica peace trek breaks the ice between Palestinians, Jews

• COVER STORY:
  A vision of spirit:

  Getting in touch with a personal God

• 50th Anniversary

• B’nai Mitzvah

• Meeting

• Music

• Pen pals for life: Brandeis Hillel teens, adult cancer patients share stage to read letters

• Bay Area artist hopes to turn horror into hope at Auschwitz

• Israeli rabbi defies ban, performs same-sex unions

• Teen proves power of pennies: She passes $15,000 goal to aid Israeli terror victims

arts

• Jews recall battles on the front and in the ranks

• Rosenbergs’ granddaughter seeks to demystify family story

• Modigliani show explores painter’s complex cultural identity

• Charity hilarity: Kids'' improv troupe raising bucks for kidney transplant

columns

• Celebrity Jews

• Like Fanny Brice, are we cutting off our nose to spite our race?

• The more we envy, the more we lose the acceptance we seek

opinions & letters

• Come out to the ballpark:

  editorial

• Teaching about the Holocaust — through cartoons

• Government drama in Israel means high stakes for U.S.

• Oppression doesn’t incite suicide bombings, leaders do

lifecycles

• Unveiling

• Deaths

• 50th Anniversary

• Wedding

• Engagement

• B’nai Mitzvah

• Births