news & features

• Shorts: World

• FBI reports 20 percent of U.S. hate crimes take place in Golden State

• Does anti-Zionism fan anti-Semitism?:

  Tackling hatred at Kindertransport conference

• Robert Merrill, ‘one of the Met’s best baritones,’ dies

• Shorts: U.S.

• AIPAC summit gets an earful from top political insiders

• UCLA launching Israel studies program to counter pro-Arab tilt

• Shorts: Mideast

• Shorts: World

• 10 years after Israel-Jordan peace, no one’s celebrating

• Shorts: Bay Area

• Wallenberg made honorary S.F. citizen

• Hotel lockout leads to nixing of ADL event

• Gay matinee: Jewish and Christian clergy look at Leviticus and liberation

• Holocaust Center’s vast library finds breathing room in new home

• Local presidential debate brings out the blue and red of area Jews

• Pain of broken childhood: Kindertransport revisited at Burlingame reunion

• Jews, others decry mailer emblazoned with swastika

• Sharon wins vote in Knesset, but may end up losing his job

• Young tech savant brings video games to kids in need

• COVER STORY:
  The Jewish Vote 2004

• B’nai Mitzvah

• Music

• Vows of support: Love endures the ages for S.F. cantor and wife marking 65th anniversary

• Back to the USSR: Young emigres reconnect with their native land

• Anatevka for a day: Thousands turn out for Palo Alto street fair, ''To Life!''

arts

• Contra Costa Jewish Book Festival schedule

• For one night, Jewish Image upstages Oscars

• Yizkor for Lenny Bruce:

  Daughter revisits controversial comedian’‘s legacy

• ‘It’s a farce, a grotesque piece’: Survivor''s modernist opera makes U.S. debut in San Francisco

columns

• Celebrity Jews

• Jokes

cook

• Try a dressy fish dish for that celebratory meal

opinions & letters

• For voters, Israel not the only ‘Jewish’ issue:

  editorial

• TWO VIEWS:
  Which candidate presents stronger record on Israel?

• Prop. 63 — an attempt to repair our mental health system:

  a local voice

• Letters

lifecycles

• Anniversary

• Weddings

• Engagements

• B’nai Mitzvah

• Birth

supplements

• Designer dresses brides with an eye for timelessness

• Tuxedo styles give grooms fashionable choices

• ‘Bar and Bat Mitzvah Book’:

  How to change the world through your child’‘s simcha

• Even a haircut — especially my great-grandson’s — can be a simcha

• Diamonds may be tough, but they still need TLC

• Traditional design for wedding invitations making a comeback

• Wedding book puts comfort before demands

• ‘Baby is a Blessing’ workshops help expectant parents prepare

• A dad deals with his sons’ bris:

  In first person