news & features

• U.S. Nazi-hunting unit to track other war criminals

• Shorts: U.S.

• Lieberman’s name raised for Bush posts, but he seems content in Senate

• Hungarian survivors to settle property lawsuit against U.S.

• Shorts: World

• A year of peace?:

  2005 could be breakthrough year in the Middle East

• Shorts: Mideast

• Gaza settlers blasted for planning to protest with Nazi symbolism

• Workers slate five-day strike at Jewish Home

• Outbid on current school, Kehillah moves to Palo Alto campus

• Museum board approves scaled-back building — will city?

• Song of the South: Tony Kushner taps into his childhood for ''Caroline, or Change''

• Kippah caper: Bar mitzvah boy''s keepsake resurfaces 33 years later — in Scotland, on eBay

• Benefits & special events

• Music

• Winter camp opens for emigre boys in S.F.

• ‘War Orphan in San Francisco’: Cupertino woman pieces together past through family''s letters

• Club Fed helps young adults get their toes wet in Jewish world

• JCCSF handed pair of ancient coins

• Keeping the faiths: Intermarried parents teach two religions at Bay Area Sunday school

• S.F. ‘emperor’ who conceived cross-bay span was Jewish eccentric

arts

• Listeners protest Israeli radio duo’s Anne Frank prank

• Inmates of all-female death camp speak in new book

• N.Y. klezmer group takes musical nostalgia trip to shtetl

• The good, the bad and the odd: Jewish rappers of the world unite on CD compilation

• Neshama Carlebach turns in a soulful fifth album

• In ‘Shanda,’ a self-loathing Jew returns home

• Don’t bother meeting the Fockers: Barbra''s back — now can she please make a real movie?

• British director sympathetic with Shylock, braves controversy

• JCCSF goes operatic: Holocaust-themed show makes local debut

columns

• Celebrity Jews

• Making peace with Santa and Christmases past

• Jokes

• Only as the children of Jacob and Israel will we ensure continuity

opinions & letters

• These settlers have gone too far:

  editorial

• Lighten up over Christmas … and Christians

• These are remarkable times — let us count the miracles

• Odds are, you might have a black sheep in your family, too

• Letters