news & features

• Shorts: U.S.

• Shorts: U.S.

• Jewish life at the convention, on and off the floor

• Schroeder honors plotters of Hitler assassination plan

• Poland ends probe into Shoah-era Jewish massacre

• Shorts: Mideast

• Shorts: World

• In wake of U.N. vote, Israel wary of united Europe

• 200 French Jews heed Sharon’s aliyah call

• Gaza non-debate leaves U.S. Jews in a ‘muddle’

• Blow up the Temple Mount — terror plot or political ploy?

• S.F. JCF exceeds campaign goal with $1 million over last year

• Lantos, State Department at odds over bill combating global anti-Semitism

• Denied entry, S.F. activist may seek return to Israel with family

• Vandals strike again: Rash of anti-Semitic graffiti hits Palo Alto

• Actor pokes fun at Jewish guilt in quirky indie film

• 12-year-old Netivot Shalom congregant dazzles delegates at Democratic Convention

• Sky-high rabbi: Aptos cantor-turned-rabbi completes four-year airborne commute

• Blindness no barrier to Jewish Home writer

arts

• Couched in the past:

  ‘‘Divan’’ filmmaker leaves Chassidic world to discover herself

• Jewish filmmakers, ministers grapple with Judas Iscariot

• HBO’s “Hitler’s Pawn,” about Jewish high-jumper, obscures substance with style

columns

• Faces

• Celebrity Jews

• Mezuzot remind us that doors hold a symbolic meaning

• Celebrity Jews

• Jokes

• ‘Comfort ye’ not just a nice phrase; it proves the power of religion:

  rabbi pinchas lipner

cook

• A kitchen survival kit for college-bound kids

opinions & letters

• Don’t let it happen again:

  editorial

• If we want Jews to make aliyah, make Israel a better place to live

• Birthright opens minds and softens hearts — even for those who drop out

lifecycles

• B’nai Mitzvahs

• Deaths

• Birth

supplements

• BJE, CJLL directors see upsurge in Jewish learning

• Marrying late:

  How a late-life union may affect your estate plan

• Exercise is catching on among Israel’s elderly

• To drive or not to drive?:

  Some states placing restrictions on older motorists

• Secure house, secure mind:

  Simple ways to protect your belongings — and yourself

• 88-year-old Bubby doles out advice on her own Web blog

• Increasing life expectancy

• Finding one’s role as a grandparent in an interfaith family

• 62 years later, couple re-establishes ties to wedding site

• Home care collaborators: Jewish, Catholic agencies team up to help elderly