news & features

• Shorts: Mideast

• Synagogue serves as temporary home for Ukraine protesters

• Dire straits:

  U.S. Jews must ‘‘take on’’ tragic Sudan crisis, says AJWS head

• Part-time cantor Joseph Schein, survivor, 82

• Survivor, antiques dealer Tamara Katz, 90

• Supreme Court refuses case of alleged religious discrimination

• Bush, Rice signal shift in Israel policy

• Kosher community defends against PETA allegations

• Shorts: World

• Shorts: Mideast

• Israel asks Egypt to control red locusts

• Defense Ministry girding for large settler resistance

• AIDS in Israel rising despite prevention efforts

• Hamas and Barghouti complicate issues around Arafat’s successor

• ‘Tunnel-busting’ Israeli captain laid to rest

• Sharon not buying into Syrian peace overtures

• Jewish leadership in Ukraine avoids taking sides

• Israel fellow brings Davis, Sacramento students closer to ‘real Israel’

• Shorts: Bay Area

• Scholars agree Israel benefiting
  from political weakness in the Arab world

• American in Paris: Author no longer loves her adopted land:

  Anti-Semitism scaring American home from France

• Fresh out of prison, young Israeli refusenik fights on

• Pastors perturbed:

  Presbyterians rev up effort against anti-Israel resolution

• Happy Chanukah:

  Stories and recipes

• Music

• Flirt, network and party:

  Meeting Jews in a non-Jewish setting

• Lifecycles

• B’nai Mitzvah

• Music

• Unsettling times:

  Israeli women in Gaza, W. Bank bond over duress

• Lights, camera, menorah:

  Classroom project morphs into documentary

• The eyes of the shtetl:

  95-year-old S.F. author pens book on Polish childhood

arts

• Good as Gold: Popular comic headlines her second Kung Pao Kosher gig

• TV show seeks amateur diplomat to spread pro-Israel message

• ‘Oaktown Jew’ raps his way through Shabbat

• Mill Valley teen fulfills dream to be concertmaster

columns

• Faces

• Jokes

• Celebrity Jews

• On Chanukah, militarism, ‘Star Wars’ and toy guns

• Jokes

• What Joseph teaches about resisting temptation

cook

• Festival takes on Italian flavor with risotto latkes, frittata

• Knishes — burritos for the Chanukah set

• Wild salmon and latkes create stylish celebration

opinions & letters

• At last, respectful, spontaneous Mideast dialogue at SFSU:

  local voices

• Couldn’t God bestow a tidy miracle?:

  editorial

• Forget the presents — it’s Chanukah traditions that count

• 8 nights of family rituals make best gifts for kids

• Chanukah confession — I’m a closet Christmas lover

• Letters

lifecycles

• Deaths

• Lifecycles

• B’nai Mitzvah

supplements

• Cross-country friends share good times — and j. jokes