news & features

• Shorts: Mideast

• Shorts: Bay Area

• Berkeley photographer Gerda Straus Mathan dies at 83

• Adrian Minkin, longtime Alameda County deputy sheriff, 57

• Shorts: U.S.

• Jews rise to help victims of Hurricane Charley

• Presidential election could come down to … Israel

• GOP balks at polls showing 75% of Jews back Kerry

• Contradictions:

  The Israel connection to McGreevey’‘s scandal

• Video shows Barghouti breaking hunger strike

• Shorts: World

• Financial problems cause Yossi Olmert to leave Israel

• Sharon faces tough choices after Likud rejects coalition

• Half Moon Bay judo athlete downed in Athens

• International Judo Federation to probe Iranian-Israeli incident

• Shorts: Bay Area

• Keddem Congregation hires first rabbi, a Stanford Ph.D. student

• ‘Powerful’ interfaith service forges ties in Fairfield

• Local gay and lesbian Jews not surprised by state court ruling

• Calif. budget has Jewish service providers anticipating the worst

• Dead Sea and DNA: Testing may resolve debate over scrolls'' origins

• Prayers answered?: Alternative area opens at Western Wall

• COVER STORY:
  Junkyard Jews: Your trash is their treasure

• B’nai Mitvah

• Music

• Beyond tourism:

  Diller teens experience a more complex Jewish state

• Yeshiva dropouts walk on the wild side

• Tawonga teens go to work in Alaska adventure

arts

• Behind-the-scenes look reveals hidden battles in making of U.S. plan for postwar Germany

• Klezmer komedy: Mickey Katz inspires S.F.-born ''shtickmeister''

• True tales of the Holocaust tough but critical reading

• Trivially pursuing a ‘Jewish I.Q.’: You won''t get smart, but book is a fun read

• Ask a question — any question — about the Bible

• Store targets Kabbalah bracelet as ‘crazy cool’

• Art ahoy!: Brisbane artist breaks out the paint at floating Jewish conference

• Everybody loves Rosenthal: ''Raymond'' creator says farewell to sitcom

• Time warp with humor: Emigre artist brings wild sweep of history to canvas

columns

• Raising teens was a challenge in biblical times, too

• Celebrity Jews

• Just because we’re Jewish doesn’t mean we have to be friends

• Jokes

• Like priests of old, we must self-deny to know the Torah’s joys

cook

• Hearty fare for hungry firefighters and finicky kids

• Any celebration should be greeted with a sweet homemade ‘occasion’ dessert

opinions & letters

• Letters

• Are we really helping Jews in the Old Country?:

  editorial

• In Poland, a focus on Jewish life, not just death

• It has been an honor to serve your community:

  a local voice

• Letters

lifecycles

• Deaths

• Weddings

• Engagements

• B’nai Mitvah

• births

supplements

• Bringing a mitzvah to a time of tragedy

• Couples grapple with Sept. 11 weddings, but most Jews say no

• Real-life ways interfaith couples make marriage work

• Guide for modern-day, meaningful b’nai mitzvah

• In first person
  Bar/bat mitzvah memories

• ‘I do’ times two: Couples renew vows with sweetness, solemnity or hilarity