news & features

• Shorts: U.S.

• Shorts: Mideast

• Love letters:
  Impassioned Holocaust missives
  from Dutch camp discovered

• Philosopher Jacques Derrida dies at 74

• Reeve was ‘Superman’ to disabled Israelis, admired by researchers

• Shorts: U.S.

• ‘Flabbergasting’:
  ‘Bubbie’ Web ad for Jews seen as crossing the line

• Undecided Pennsylvania Jews ask — ‘who’s worse?’

• Historians say Nazis planned to rebuild gas chambers in Austria

• Hamas military commander captured alive

• Bombed Istanbul synagogue reopens

• Shorts: Mideast

• Nobel for Technion profs bring boost to Israeli biotech

• Israeli families torn asunder by Taba

• After Sinai attacks, an opening for Israeli-Egyptian cooperation

• Shorts: Bay Area

• Anti-Semitism monitoring bill passes Congress

• Presidential debate heads to S.F. — sort of

• Sold!:

  JFCS auction a hit with do-gooders and deal-hunters

• Mendocino Jewish community celebrates its new home

• Coming out in the classroom:
  Educators share their concerns

• Spiegelman’s 9/11 book achieves epic heights

• The forgotten pogrom:

  Iraqi Jews seek compensations for 1950s abuse

• COVER STORY:
  Israeli expatriates:

  To stay here or not:
  They wrestle with the question

• Music

• B’nai Mitzvah

• Music

• Kindertransport survivors to gather in Burlingame

arts

• Blame Canada?: Documentary highlights frosty relations between Israeli ex-pats, Canadian Jews

• ‘She Must Marry a Doctor’: Yiddish theater comes to SFSU

• From humor to polemics, Jewish films and videos
  run gamut at Berkeley festival

• That’s a Morrie: Play brings beloved bestseller to the stage

• ‘Real voice of Israel’: Edgy hip-hoppers make U.S. debut

columns

• I feel lost, without a Jewish habitat to call my own

• Faces

• Celebrity Jews

• Jokes

• Noah and Abraham offer relevant lessons about leadership

cook

• Sparkling fruits of the Bible transform a spread

opinions & letters

• The mitzvah of saving lives:
  What Jewish law says about Proposition 71:

  a local voice

• Another exodus from Sinai, but we can’t let hope die

• Israelis should be part of our community, too:

  editorial

• Is Gaza a ploy in freezing the peace process?

• 60 years ago, new JCRC in S.F. revolutionized Jewish public affairs

lifecycles

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• B’nai Mitzvah

• Birth

supplements

• “To Life!” Festival:
  The Jewish town square: Palo Alto''s Campus for Jewish Life moves forward with $200 million complex

• “To Life!” Festival:
  Walk for Israel’s terror victims

• “To Life!” Festival:
  New Bridges at 6: Still reaching out to unaffiliated

• “To Life!” Festival:
  Artist’s tree of life brings identity to festival

• “To Life!” Festival:
  Festival unites art, event planning, spirituality for new head

• “To Life!” Festival:
  ‘My heroes are my farmers’: From Jewish grocer''s daughter to California chef

• “To Life!” Festival:
  Young ‘Jewish American Idol’ contestants vie for prizes, stardom

• “To Life!” Festival:
  Za’atar spices up the festival: Mideast-flavored group enhances wide-ranging entertainment menu

• “To Life!” Festival:
  Jewish culture comes to Palo Alto streets with music, art, food