news & features

• Under new leadership, Mossad returns to aggressive tactics

• Shorts: U.S.

• Shorts: U.S.

• Politicization of morality worries Jewish officials

• Jews welcome new role for Rice, call her ‘friend of Israel’

• Israel: Beirut will pay for Galilee attacks

• Shorts: Mideast

• Gaza families weigh pressures to leave, and stay

• How much has the intifada cost?

• Romania faces facts about Holocaust complicity

• Berlin anti-Israel parade shrouded in ignorance

• Shorts: Bay Area

• Peace now?
  Labor MK hopeful, but not about growing poverty

• Gaza plan, Arafat death mark new era, says Labor leader

• One-day strike planned at Jewish Home:

  Complete health coverage is at center of dispute

• COVER STORY:
  After Arafat — Anxiety:

  Does United States have the will to step in?

• We’re not radically different after all:

  JCF survey turns up growing local Jewish population

• IDF women and guns — shock and art in S.F. show

• B’nai Mitzvah

• Music

• Hadassah goes Hollywood:

  MorningStar trio pushes for positive portrayals of women in film

• Donor dads and other tales:

  Kids of LGBT parents share issues at BRJCC panel

arts

• ‘Flutes for God’:

  Women’‘s ensemble Ya Elah cuts first CD

• Out of the ashes: S.F. developer who fought with the Jewish Resistance tells his story in a new memoir

• J. managing editor, wife capture top songwriting prize

• Film on German Jew ‘given’ to Hitler opens eyes in Brazil

• Harvey Fierstein to play Teyve on Broadway

• Honor thy father — in song: Cabaret-style crooner travels through family''s past in one-woman show

• Theresienstadt revisited: Documentary probes motives of ill-fated Jewish filmmaker

• Mary the Jew: Artist underscores Jewish connections in life of Jesus'' mother

• Irving Berlin’s Yule music plays again — on S.F. stage: ''Nothing in show that would offend anyone of any faith''

• Pryor engagement: Comic''s daughter takes ''Fried Chicken & Latkes'' to JCCs

• Amos Oz works his wizardry far from commotion of Jerusalem

columns

• Faces

• Celebrity Jews

• It was the mezuzah that called me home

• Jokes

cook

• A tantalizing chocoholic Chanukah with nary a potato

• Gifts from the kitchen that kids can decorate

opinions & letters

• Letters

• Where did Arafat’s money go?:

  editorial

• Arafat: Peacemaker, peacebreaker or neither

• Letters to the editor

lifecycles

• B’nai Mitzvah

• Wedding

• Births

• Deaths

supplements

• Gift guide

• Judaica gift shop opens in Walnut Creek:

  Owner ‘‘fills the void’’ left by closure of Danville store

• The present that went astray:

  Rolex, Shmolex, it still keeps time and looks good

• Festival contains the kernels of vegetarianism

• Gifts to please even finicky teens and kids

• Eight books for eight nights