news & features

• Shorts: World

• With Israel top on their agenda, Russian Jews heavily favor Bush

• Rare Hebraica collection is expected to fetch up to $11 million at auction

• Libya’s Khadafy opens up to Jewish refugees; what’s his motive?

• The Bible comes to Berkeley for Oct. 17 celebration

• Jews kvell as Israelis win first Nobel prize for science

• Shorts: U.S.

• Israeli-Palestinian conflict fades as U.S. election fodder

• Supreme Court likely to tackle hot issues

• Jewish students to counter pro-Palestinian forum at Duke

• Florida’s Jews at eye of presidential storm

• Shorts: Mideast

• Putin finds allies in terror war: rabbis, muftis and patriarchs

• Nun who inspired Gibson’s ‘Passion’ may become a saint

• Evangelical Christians rally en masse for the Jewish state

• Canadian university decision to ban Barak sparks free-speech demonstration

• Charges against U.N. agency highlight complex relationship

• Paris police probe sale of suicide-bomber toys

• Gains from Gaza?:

  Latest offensive draws criticism within Israel

• Shorts: Bay Area

• Russian Jews celebrate themselves, and Israel, too

• Dershowitz’s public enemy No. 1: a nuclear Iran

• Persnickety views: Best-selling author proudly Jewish

• Extreme Sukkot: Brandeis Hillel students celebrate the holiday in the splendor of Yosemite

• COVER STORY:
  All in the family: Bay Area Jewish parents accept joys, struggles of interracial adoption

• B’nai Mitzvah

• Film

• Music

• Hosting WorldPride 2005 in Holy City no easy feat

• Could Israeli-style terror happen here?:

  You bet, says intelligence chief

• Striking Orthodox matches:

  Berkeley shul to host singles Shabbaton

arts

• San Jose Jewish Film Festival marks its bar mitzvah

• Wedding day to remember on the Israeli-Syrian border

• ‘Raging Dove’:

  Israeli Arab boxer risks it all in Gaza

columns

• Everyone likes a good laugh, but ‘Seinfeld’s’ blabbin’ rabbi crosses a line

• Jokes

• We must reach for Eden, knowing that we can never arrive there

cook

• Joan Nathan’s done it again — her new holiday cookbook is a gem

opinions & letters

• Letters

• The Presbyterian Church blows it:

  editorial

• ‘Material Girl’ challenges authentic Jews to live holy

• Christian right’s love of Israel pleases Jews, who find domestic views troubling

• Putin’s power grab poses risk for democracy and Jews:

  a local voice

• Letters

lifecycles

• Deaths

• B’nai Mitzvah

• Births

supplements

• “To Life!” Festival:
  Chicken with prunes complements a Moroccan menu