news & features

• Kosher restaurant in Athens wins gold medal with customers

• Holocaust-era slave laborers get final check from fund

• Manual tells local Jews how to defend themselves

• Clicking for love 24/7:

  Singles seek mates on Israeli TV dating channel

• Shorts: World

• Shorts: Mideast

• Surrounded by strife, Arafat celebrates 75

• At Auschwitz, Gypsies remember their dead 60 years later

• Siberia’s oldest shul is consumed by flames

• Istanbul synagogue rebuilds amid ‘ongoing trauma’

• U.S. issues travel warning for Israel

• Security found lacking at strategic Israeli sites

• Holy Land honey to sweeten holidays

• Pregnant emigre mom loses latest appeal

• Leftist Jews and their friends to take on anti-Semitism

• Posters defaced:

  S.F. candidate vows to track down anti-Semitic perpetrator

• In hindsight, Arafat was no partner in peace

• Low-carb challah?:

  Kosher community responds to latest diet craze

• COVER STORY:
  A hard-knock life:

  It’‘s Half Moon Bay judo champ Charlee Minkin vs. the world in Athens

• B’nai Mitzvah

• Music

• Obama, Democrats’ rising star, known for harmony with Jews

• ‘This was my country’: Bay Area teens experience summer in Israel

arts

• From ‘Evita’ to grim reaper:

  Showtime’‘s ‘‘Dead Like Me’’ celebrates life, says Mandy Patinkin

• Palestinian, Israelis grapple with conflict on camera, and on panel

• Hollywood can’t convey real horror of the Holocaust, panelists say

• The world on a string: Musical ''ambassadors'' for Israel will play in Berkeley

columns

• Jokes

• Expand the soul to cultivate the Divine within us

• Jokes

cook

• Nuts to you! Woodland guests inspire camp fare

opinions & letters

• ‘Unlearning’ anti-Israelism:

  editorial

• The settler minority will win over Gaza because it won’t back down

• The Presbyterians got it wrong, but it’s our job to mend bridges

• Letters

lifecycles

• Deaths

• Wedding

• Engagements

• B’nai Mitzvah

• Births

supplements

• Adults hitting the books, too:

  Kabbalah, history and Yiddish are Lehrhaus hits

• Excellence in teaching nets honors for 7 area educators

• Yavneh head takes route from engineering to education

• Books to help raise tolerant tots

• What’s ahead for area day schools: More students, more classes, more innovation

• For teens, it’s all about Israel: After-school programs seek to connect kids with Jews — here and there