news & features

• Arafat’s successor will walk political tightrope

• From pariah to partner and back:
  Jews reflect on the legacy of Arafat

• Chaos or progress?
  Israel ready for anything as Arafat era ends

• Ohio toy company discontinues Nazi action figure

• Shorts: Bay Area

• Shorts: World

• ZOA head Klein blasts Gaza pullout, Palestinian leadership

• COVER STORY:
  American Jewry at 350:

  Struggles of colonial Jews foreshadow later history

• Partisan, restaurateur Krystina Zolowicz dies

• All Jews, all the time:

  Drive for 24-hour cable network dependent on funding

• Shorts: Mideast

• ‘Scoring points’ by killing Israelis in terrorist attacks

• Vendors, shoppers pick up the pieces after bombing at Tel Aviv marketplace

• Will Argentina probe AMIA investigators?

• Showdown at the Sharon corral?

• The post-Arafat era:

  Mideast relations face huge question mark

• ‘Jerusalem Diaries’ author to speak here:

  who’s in town

• Shorts: Bay Area

• Philanthropists partner to rekindle the ‘light of world Jewry,’ Poland

• A novel approach: Bay Area Jewish writer scores with debut book

• ELECTION 2004:
  THE JEWISH VOTE

• COVER STORY:
  ‘I’m not closing the door’: Conservative women rabbis confront marriage gap

• B’nai Mitzvah

• B’nai Mitzvah

• Music

• Exodus, stage right: ''Storahtellers'' bring theater to the bimah

• From a few young Jews to 1,380 families:
  South Bay’s Beth Am marks 50 years

• Hadassah women out to change image of Jewish women on screen

• Getting defensive: At S.F. Krav Maga, I was folded, spindled and mutilated — and loved it!

arts

• Memory of exile fuels stunning Mexican documentary

• Mindfulness and Judaism:

  Ex-Bay Area rabbi looks at rabbinic convergence

• Rock terror:

  Suicide bomb fantasy in Prince video sparks criticism

• S.F. prof says Jewish texts inspired Ben Franklin, other U.S. thinkers

• Holocaust memoir hits home

• Oakland optometrist pens Jewish primer for non-Jews

• ‘Bonjour, Monsieur Shlomi’ pulls softly at heartstrings

columns

• Faces

• Celebrity Jews

• Tarot-Kabbalah connection not all that mysterious

• Jokes

• Recognizing holiness in its many guises

cook

• Souper dining lifts spirits on a dreary day

opinions & letters

• Bush win doesn’t spell victory for religious right

• Time to unite our country:

  editorial

• Sometimes my job makes me ‘shiva’

• Strike four, Arafat — you’re out!

• Rx for Jewish institutions:
  Mid-level staffers deserve more respect and money

• Letters

lifecycles

• B’nai Mitzvah

• Deaths

• B’nai Mitzvah

• Births

supplements

• NOSH AND FOOD:
  Wild and woolly kosher fare:

  Bison for brunch, grasshoppers for dessert

• Judeo-economics:

  Jewish scholars try to reconcile religious law with business practices

• Growing city-settlements maintain appeal

• StartUp Jerusalem wants to jump-start job growth in Israel

• Lafayette woman finds recipe for success in healthy snacks

• The family business:

  Adult children, parents teach each other ‘‘lessons of life’’