news & features

• Shorts: U.S.

• Major Jewish movements oppose bill to allow politics
  in houses of worship

• Shorts: World

• Shorts: Mideast

• U.S. wonders if Syria’s charming new face is merely superficial

• Stabbing takes anti-Semitic acts in France to a new level

• Shorts: Bay Area

• Pro-Israel demonstrators harassed at San Francisco
  anti-war rally

• J. design takes top award

• Arson / hate crime?:

  Bystanders put out fire at Santa Cruz Hillel

• After 30 years of renting, Shomrei Torah begins
  building a Santa Rosa home of its own

• Disengagement:

  Sharon moves rapidly to implement Gaza plan

• JCCSF throws restored ‘Wedding’ mural a party

• COVER STORY:
  Reagan & the Jews: Ronald Reagan, 1911-2004

• 50th anniversary

• b’nai mitzvah

• etc.

• music

• Dancing toward harmony:

  Berkeley class brings Jewish, Muslim teens closer

• Sun, fun and falafel at ‘Israel in the Ballpark’

arts

• Shmuley vs. Madonna

• TV producer back on stage after 30 years — playing himself

• Ruling on Nazi-looted art may have wide repercussions

• Even wrestler Goldberg makes it into ‘Jewish Sports Stars’

columns

• Celebrity Jews

• Faux b’nai mitzvah and non-Jewish ketubot
  befuddle my ethics

• Jokes

• It is only from caring about our past that we gain hope for the future

cook

• Tapas offer lots of little surprises for celebrating birthdays

opinions & letters

• A friend of the oppressed:

  editorial

• Are Israel’s marriage laws ‘archaic and irrelevant’?:

  opinion

• Reagan years marked the beginning of a long,
  roller-coaster ride with Israel:

  opinion

• Reagan’s ‘evil empire’ view of USSR was right on the mark:

  opinion

• Letters

lifecycles

• deaths

• 50th anniversary

• wedding

• engagement

• b’nai mitzvah

• births

supplements

• It pays to ‘make nice’ in doctor-patient relationships

• Prague looks westward to fund new senior home for survivors

• Tai chi and Torah go together, mind and body, for ex-Bay Area teacher

• Age of entitlements:

  Retirees finding out growing older has its perks

• Jewish Home geriatrician ponders the difference between forgetfulness and dementia

• Daughter’s loving memoir probes Alzheimer’s and relationships

• ‘Energy in the Hebrew letter’: Rabbi translates psalms into calligraphy show