news & features

• Leroy F. Aarons, pioneering gay journalist, dies at 70

• Coalition collides as Sharon sacks Shinui Party partners

• Woody Guthrie’s hootenanny Chanukah coming to Berkeley

• Election differences cause ripples at General Assembly

• Yad Vashem puts Holocaust victims’ names on the Web

• Shorts: Mideast

• Israeli high court sparks the ‘Who is a Jew?’ debate

• Sharon conquers Likud ‘rebels’ as Palestinian election looms

• Israeli coup d’etat?:

  Sharon and generals talked of seizing power before 1967 war, book says

• New leader of Russian Jewish group pursuing closer ties to Kremlin

• Rash of anti-Semitic incidents leaves Argentine Jews rattled

• Shorts: Bay Area

• Hundreds of Jewish Home employees hit picket lines

• Bay Area philanthropist fuels Negev housing project

• ‘Fund-raising is fun-raising,’ say Super Sunday volunteers on $2.2 million effort

• Let there be LEGOs:

  Giant menorahs to brighten Bay Area

• Sky-high rabbi: San Jose Orthodox leader communes with God at 4,000 feet

• Menorah collectors all fired up

• B’nai Mitzvah

• Music

• Lighting up the bay:

  Public menorahs celebrate Chanukah from Sonoma to San Jose

• Motorcycles, menorahs, mazel: Chabad leader marks 30th year of public lightings, S.F. outreach

• Rabbi’s not-so-private life as whodunit scholar

arts

• Marin play shows life’s randomness in triplicate

• Seinfeld’s puffy shirt joins Smithsonian collection

• ‘Bridge’ works ‘Bridge’ works ‘Bridge’ works: CD/book combo sends healing message

• Touching spirits, one by one: Renewal singer keys into Holy Days on new CD

• S.F. poet turns to prose to write about brother’s suicide

• The heartfelt kid: Actor/playwright Charles Grodin premieres new play in San Francisco

• Pincus and the Pig: Klezmer band struts stuff in ''Peter and the Wolf'' remake

• ‘MeshugaNutcracker’ and all its craziness returns to Bay Area

columns

• Celebrity Jews

• Staying afloat amid ‘Zionists’ in Salt Lake City

• Jokes

• Fear and awe can help us live purposefully

opinions & letters

• ‘It came upon a midnight clear’: It’s their party:

  editorial

• To save Jews from self-annihilation, try minimizing abortion

• Gay marriage hysteria endangers religious tolerance

• Soul-searching in a bike shop:

  a local voice

lifecycles

• Deaths

• B’nai Mitzvah

• Birth

supplements

• Eight nights, eight quirky Jewish delights

• 8 top reasons for using the new Chanukah stamp

• Memorable menorahs:

  in first person

• Saga of sufganiyot:

  Radical 15th-century confection transforms into Israeli treat