news & features

• COVER STORY:
  Challenging the mentally challenged: New programs create safe, fun and haimish places for developmentally disabled Jews

• Shorts: Mideast

• Shorts: U.S.

• Refusenik scientist Alexander Lerner dies at 90

• Objectivist S.F. poet Carl Rakosi dies at 100

• Local lawyer-activist-humorist David Silver dies at 87

• Shorts: U.S.

• Evaluating Edwards: North Carolina senator known for supporting Israel

• Shorts: Mideast

• Shorts: World

• Netanyahu joins Holocaust compensation fray

• Population flat, morale down, anti-Semitism up, says new study on Jews

• Israeli government tries to head off settler extremists ahead of Gaza pullout

• Ecologists raise alarm over Israel’s security barrier

• Shorts: Bay Area

• Tajikistan, S.F. share ideas to battle hate

• S.F. leaders get an up-close look at Jewish state

• New federation president sees changes ahead

• Request filed to reunite deported emigre with her family

• Is Madonna the poster child for the new Jew?: Two Views

• Mazel in the dugout: Giants relief pitchers sport a little Yiddishkeit

• Cover Story:
  Coming attractions: Jewish Film Festival spotlights Holocaust, Mideast and Jesus

• Unveilings

• B’nai Mitzvah

• Music

• ‘Rabbi Pam’ leaves congregation she helped found

• Beth Israel-Judea sells cemetery to Emanu-El, Sherith Israel

• Healing the wounds: Daughter of Nazi befriends local Jewish war refugee

• Sabbatical in Guatemala rewarding but no vacation for Berkeley teachers

arts

• That magic moment: Film looks at Jewish hitmakers of ''50s and ''60s

• SFJFF Film Shorts

• Documentaries give voice to Palestinian moderates

• ‘Tomorrow’ fails to move audience

• Sweaty, stressed out and stuck in Tel Aviv

• Hollywood and the Holocaust: ''Witness'' makes the unimaginable vivid

• Glass artist finds unexpected audience — observant Jews

• ‘Wonders’ celebrates Jewish life in U.S. through the years

• Bonkers for ‘Lost in Yonkers’: Marin teens have a blast preparing for Neil Simon play

• The ultimate ‘Producer’: Broadway veteran brings Mel Brooks hit to South Bay

columns

• Jokes

• Which comes first: Welfare of community, or self-interest?

• Faces

• Celebrity Jews

• Making friends with the rock on my finger

• Jokes

• It’s good to be zealous, but only for His will

cook

• Summer guests arrive just in time to enjoy veggies at their best

opinions & letters

• Letters

• Ladies and gentlemen, it’s showtime!:

  Editorial

• Vocal Brando spoke out for Jews, too

• Thanks, Esther, for making Judaism anything but boring

• Sorry, but you can’t be a kabbalist and strip on stage

• Letters

lifecycles

• Weddings

• Unveilings

• Deaths

• Engagement

• B’nai Mitzvah

• Births