news & features

• Convention shows Jewish strides in GOP, but social-issue gap remains

• Bernard ‘Bud’ Wolfe, temple founder and communal donor, dies at 87

• Shorts: U.S.

• Where does Bush stand on the issues?

• GOP hopes platform will bolster Bush’s image as friend to Israel

• Hate-crime hoax perpetrator found guilty

• Munich massacre memorialized in Athens

• Jews demand more security after Paris attack

• Cemetery clean-up project helps teach students about Holocaust

• Sharon weighs his coalition options — all risky

• New Israeli settlements getting U.S. nod, report says

• Picnic aims to bring East Bay Jewish community together

• Allies against anti-Semitism: Jews, others parley over prejudice on the left

• An urgent appeal:
  Jews asked to write letters on behalf of deported Russian emigre

• Gold rush: Local athletes rip it up at Maccabi Games

• Interfaith ‘Day of Conscience’ calls for intervention in Sudan

• Bonjour, Israel; au revoir, France: French Jews flock to Holy Land to escape attacks and for aliyah dreaming

• Jewish groups welcome GOP with parties, forums and concert

• COVER STORY:
  In search of a cure: Jewish genetic diseases still devastate

• B’nai Mitzvah

• Jewish studies program mints new Russian scholars

• Making Judaism magical: Clown teaches values with a bit of abracadabra and hocus-pocus

• Israelis celebrate after windsurfer earns country’s first Olympic gold medal

arts

• A roaring success:

  Fund offers seniors some fun

• Definer of Zionism defends it in new book

• Guide takes travelers off the beaten path to Jewish Europe

• A daughter’s journey into mother’s wartime secret

• The music mensch: Conductor says farewell to Santa Rosa — sort of

columns

• Celebrity Jews

• Next time I need ‘aura-cleansing,’ I’ll visit a rabbi

• Jokes

opinions & letters

• Letters

• Heartbreak of genetic disease:

  editorial

• TWO VIEWS:
  Second-class citizenship or ‘modern multiculturalism’?

• The new GOP pragmatism — think long-term on Jewish support

lifecycles

• Deaths

• Engagement

• B’nai Mitzvah

supplements

• German Jewish women form new network

• Job seeker to business owner:

  Tight economy inspires Russian Jewish women to become entrepreneurs

• Go to shul, find a coach