news & features

• L.A. rabbi and actor dies

• Shorts: U.S.

• Some Jews fear backlash over support of Iraq war

• Shorts: World

• Shorts: Mideast

• Services honor Portuguese diplomat who saved 30,000 Jews

• Ruling on pork prohibition drives some Israelis hog wild

• Loan casts another shadow over Sharon

• Search on for director of Hebrew U.‘s S.F. office

• Israel is losing Mideast conflict, journalist says

• War of words flares between Garamendi, Holocaust claims group in S.F. meeting

• Beastie Boys give Jews funk to be proud of

• 5 years after arson, Sacramento synagogues still healing

• The unseen Anne Frank

• B’nai Mitzvah

• etc.

• Reading

• Music

• ‘Occupation a calamity for both sides,’ says ‘refusenik’ leader

• Talk therapy: Israeli-Palestinian dialogue elicits cheers and tears

• Reverse missionary: A Texas Baptist spreads love of Judaism here

• Pro-Israel message joins in S.F. Pride parade

arts

• Director opens ‘Windows’ on Italy’s collaborators

• Israeli films take ‘Round Trip’ to lesbian and gay festival

• Boy in a blue dress: One-man show relives gender-bending childhood

columns

• Faces

• Celebrity Jews

• Beyond alef, bet and chet, it’s all Greek to me

• Jokes

• We each must nurture the spark of holiness within us

cook

• Fish and egg dishes may not ensure fertility, but at least they’re easy to prepare

opinions & letters

• Anne Frank in a new light:

  editorial

• House of Saud on the brink of disaster

• A pig-headed verdict that undermines our heritage

• Anti-Semitic governments, past, present and future

• Letters

lifecycles

• Unveiling

• Deaths

• Wedding

• B’nai Mitzvah

• Births

supplements

• Bag the stag party — grooms these days engage in war games

• With so many new options, rice-throwing is for the birds

• It’s hard to give a toast if your foot is in your mouth

• What’s in a name?:

  Time-honored tradition of changing to hubby’‘s surname has legal issues, too

• Purpose still the same, but showers sure have changed

• In Israel, pressure builds to legitimize non-Orthodox weddings

• For the wedding of your dreams, make a budget early

• Coming clean

• From baby kippah to Tylenol, Bris Kit has everything but the implement

• Why did Uncle David smush the glass, Grandpa?:

  A child’s wedding memories

• Lure of the rings:

  In Israel, big, bold and funky is the only way to go

• Tale of two women:

  Finding tranquility in motherhood

• How we met:

  In the first person

• Prenuptial counseling focuses on relationships, not gender, rabbis say