news & features

• Herman Wertheim, former real estate agent, dies at 102

• Melbourne Harris, former Emanu-El assistant rabbi, dies at 100

• Like Ruth, like Golda: Women donors seek to balance devotion and strength

• Federal court ruling on survivor claims disappoints many

• Down and dirty:

  Kerry and Bush teams try to get out the Jewish vote

• Outcry over anti-Jewish editorial in Duke newspaper

• Shorts: World

• Sephardi in Panama seek a rabbi from within

• Sharon faces gravest political test in showdown over referendum

• Shorts: Bay Area

• Jdate, Torah style: Riffing on Genesis for messages on mating

• ‘Never again?’
  Kindertransport survivor/Mideast activist causes a stir in Berkeley

• Falling N.Y. Jewish identity may forecast a trend

• COVER STORY:
  A call for help: Caring for elderly parents miles away

• Homophobia: It’s in the day schools, too

• B’nai Mitzvah

• Minutiae maven: Trivia buff turns passion for stray facts into popular contest

• Three brothers, three baby girls, three months

• Lilith editor’s beat:
  from sex abuse to seders

arts

• ‘Little Shop’ talk: Refugees'' son takes on man-eating plant in S.F. revival

• Jewish Internet radio launched

• Hammer time

• Capturing masters: In new photo book, Rose Eichenbaum traces American dance history through portraiture

• Sex, grades and homework: Audio theater company captures high-schoolers'' world

• From Shylock to kreplach: Contra Costa book fair spans wide swath of Jewish universe

• Searching for Isaac Babel in pen and ink

columns

• Faces

• What ram and goat stories tell us about redemption

• Calling all once-a-year Jews:
  It’s time to take on some responsibility

• Celebrity Jews

• Jokes

• What does it mean to be ‘burdened’ by affluence?

opinions & letters

• Responding to angst in a New York minute:

  editorial

• TWO VIEWS:
  After Taba tragedy, is Egypt friend or foe?

• Letters

lifecycles

• Deaths

• deaths

• B’nai Mitzvah

• Births

supplements

• Exercise tool keeps users of all ages on the ball

• After life gets in the way, 80-year-old finally gets degree

• Retiring baby boomers are a powerful economic force

• Patient questions may be just what the doctor ordered

• To be 50 is nifty:

  Happy birthday: Here’‘s what you can look forward to — or not

• JNF recruiting retirees for winter trip to Israel

• Singing a new song:

  Elders make music from psalms, beliefs

• Art brings out creativity, lifts spirits at Reutlinger

• ‘My different sisterhood’:

  Tiny S.F. sorority raises big bucks for youth, disabled