news & features

• Freda Birnbaum, past president of S.F. Hadassah

• Renowned Stanford physicist Joel Ferziger dies at 67

• Shorts: U.S.

• Heard at the convention: A reporter’s Jewish notebook

• Jewish protesters, pro- and anti-Israel, rally against Bush

• Shorts: Mideast

• Shorts: World

• Strange synagogue painting baffles art experts

• Israelis give returning Olympians a hero’s welcome

• Love him or hate him, ex-Texan spices up Israeli basketball broadcasts

• Chinese city with Jewish past reaches out again

• Returning to Berlin, survivor finds closure in a changed city

• Arrest of Jew in French arson has community worried about crying wolf

• Mourning fills Beersheva after bombings

• Shorts: Bay Area

• Livermore Jews walk their Torahs to Pleasanton

• Peninsula Temple Sholom gets a face-lift, new school

• Can-do attitude:

  Food banks aim for 5 tons of canned goods for needy during Holy Days

• Hall of Fame gives Jewish major leaguers their due

• Franklin-Gate and the Jews

• COVER STORY:
  Is the bimah the place for politics?

• B’nai Mitzvah

• Film

• ‘Play it cool’:

  Couple’s secret to 75 years of marriage

• Poor vision can’t stop 90-year-old artist

• First conversion, then bat mitzvah for Novato teen

arts

• Memoir recalls Tehran life after the 1979 revolution: A Jew among the mullahs

• ‘South Park’s’ latest passions — Mel Gibson, Jews and Christians

• On the fringe: Nose jobs, Jewish guilt come into play in one-woman ''Faker''

• Found objects find their way into Israeli artist’s caricatures

columns

• Celebrity Jews

• Spot may look and act Jewish, but does he eat Jewish?

• Jokes

• Find a ‘first fruit’ in every moment of every day

food

• ROSH HASHANAH RECIPES:

opinions & letters

• Adam and Eve’s gifts to the Jews — freedom and a conscience

• Clear the air on Israel spy charges:

  editorial

• The same Dovetail conference?

• Zionists not welcome at this Manhattan ‘peace rally’

• Finding beauty and meaning in who we are and what we can do

lifecycles

• Weddings

• Unveiling

• Deaths

• B’nai Mitzvah

• Births