news & features

• Shorts: U.S.

• AIPAC probe in limbo while grand jury speculation continues

• In close election, campaigns reach out to voters through ads in Jewish media

• Poll: Jews still favor Kerry, but Bush shows small gain

• Wal-Mart to remove ‘Protocols’ from Web site

• Shorts: Mideast

• Alleged corruption, schism, lead to firings at World Jewish Congress

• Stalin’s ‘Jewish homeland’ lives on in Russia’s Far East

• Bombing is a reminder that calm is artificial

• As Gaza pullout looms, some settlers consider moving to kibbutzim

• Gaza disengagement also a challenge for Egypt

• Israel looks to ‘day after’ Gaza in meetings with foreign ministers

• Shorts: Bay Area

• JCRC: 60 years as ‘human relations clearinghouse’

• ‘The best PR we can have’: ''Material Girl'' boosts tourism with Kabbalah fest in Jewish state

• Scammers target survivors, attempting to defraud them

• In harm’s way: Bay Area Jewish families can only hope and pray for their loved ones in war zones

• Home & garden

• Music

• High-tech program puts area teens in touch
  with themselves — and Israel

• 25 years later, NIF still promoting democracy, pluralism in Israel

arts

• Shorts: The Arts

• ‘The Future of Israel’ thought-provoking if not controversial

• Dual identity:

  Israeli-American looks at Israel through a ‘‘post-Zionist’’ eye

• International flavor at Sonoma County Jewish Film Series

• Hooked on ‘Addicted’: Jewish actor directs comic''s one-man play

columns

• Faces

• Celebrity Jews

• Jokes

• Celebrity Jews

• Surfing as a soulful experience

• Jokes

• Confessing our sins cleanses and clears a holy place within

cook

• It’s time to chill — in the kitchen, in our lives

opinions & letters

• Letters

• Keeping our spirits up at Sukkot:

  editorial

• Spending Yom Kippur on a bicycle seems like a terrible waste

• Looking back at 5764 — the good, the bad and the kosher

• Welcoming ‘exalted guests’ into our sukkah

lifecycles

• Deaths

• Wedding

• Births

supplements

• Imbuing your dwelling with mezuzah-consciousness