news & features

• Israel’s national folk musician, Naomi Shemer, dies at 74

• In new platform Democrats go pro-Israel but skirt ‘road map’

• Old foes and friends, Sharon and Peres again talk unity government

• Hate hoax damages French fight against anti-Semitism

• In Antwerp, fear setting the tone of daily life

• Plane attack still an unexplained tragedy

• Tel Aviv bombing adds deadly injury to insult of The Hague ruling on barrier

• JNF slates S.F. mezuzah dedication

• Drop in anti-Jewish hate crimes fits overall pattern

• Israeli and Jordanian activists plead for the environment

• Contingent presses consul for action following killing of St. Petersburg activist

• Marin film festival spurs incidents

• Israel defends its right to bar S.F. Jewish activist

• Argentine Jews still suffering 10 years after AMIA bombing

• Judaica exhibit at JCC brings arts and crafts — with a twist

• B’nai Mitzvah

• etc.

• Meetings

• Music

• Jubilee-by-the-sea: Carmel congregation celebrates 50 years as ''little outpost''

• Murals bring Judaism alive for Oakland preschoolers

• ESL, ASAP: JVS offers English classes to displaced Chinese garment workers

arts

• Glorious contradictions — a note on Isaac Bashevis Singer’s centenary

• Israeli women struggle with Orthodox purity in documentary

• San Francisco Jewish Film Festival

columns

• Jokes

• Celebrity Jews

• Death is the great Jewish question mark

cook

• Comfort food still rules — at summer camp and at home

opinions & letters

• Israel suffers once again at U.N.:

  editorial

• It’s me-too politics on Israel — until Nov. 3

• Israel must follow the law — but not The Hague

• When peace interferes with Israeli quality of life:

  A local voice

lifecycles

• Unveiling

• Deaths

• Engagements

• B’nai Mitzvah

• Births

supplements

• Building a state together:

  Integrating Arabs into Israel’‘s work force is critical, say activists

• A foothold in Israel:

  Families group together to buy property for aliyah

• Soup Mavens:

  S.F. restaurants dish out matzah balls and more