news & features

• COVER STORY:
  Lower East Side story: Tilson Thomas honors his Yiddish theater grandparents

• Controversial president of Polish American Congress dies

• Rabbi Sanford Lowe, biblical scholar, dies at 69

• Paris survivor dies at 79; took youth on Auschwitz trips

• Yahoo seeks free speech protection for Nazi sites

• American groups struggle to line up full support for withdrawal

• No end in sight for AIPAC probe: Top lobbyists put on leave

• Solidarity is the goal: Soccer match brings terror victims to Ireland

• Shorts: World

• ‘There is no God there’: Russian Chabad rabbi denounces Reform Judaism

• Shorts: Mideast

• The heart of Hadassah: Israeli, Palestinian surgeons operate on West Bank kids

• Book discovery: Hitler knew specifics of Final Solution

• Now comes the hard part: Sharon survives budget battle, but disengagement fight has only begun

• Shorts: Bay Area

• Who’s in town

• Judge to rule if Jews were kept off jury

• Local lawmakers return from Mideast with questions, but Sharon’s all smiles

• Emek Blockbuster: Palo Alto minyan calls former video store home

• Hope running out for return of deported piano teacher

• Zealotry, Israeli-style: ''Frontline'' examines Zionism''s violent fringe

• Pollard’s attorneys running out of options

• Russian club thrives socially but struggles financially

• B’nai Mitzvah

• Music

• Exhibit on Norway’s Jews celebrates life and culture, depicts hardships

• ‘Little engine that could’ — JFS marks 25th in Silicon Valley

arts

• Celebrating klezmer:

  CD piques appetite but doesn’‘t satiate it

• ‘Almost Peaceful,’ completely elegant:

  Neglected French film depicts Holocaust scars healing in Paris

• Conflicts of the heart in Vietnam war-era love story

• Caveat emptor:

  ‘‘Beware of God’’ gives the Almighty a few pokes

• Out of the darkroom:

  Photos of modern Jewish women spin Shoah into new light

• Jackie Mason returns to Broadway without the song and dance

columns

• The power of 50: I’ll live now and die later

• Faces

• Babies and bubbes boogie in Berkeley

• Jokes

cook

• Brandy puts the magic in chef’s chopped liver

• Something to nibble on always makes volunteering more fun

opinions & letters

• Sharon the warrior thriving as peacemaker:

  editorial

• Two Views:
  Is anti-Zionism the source of Harvard hullabaloo?

• Tourists should choose world aid over Club Med:

  a local voice

• Letters

lifecycles

• Deaths

• B’nai Mitzvah

• Births

supplements

• Help Israel while reducing your tax burden

• Krakow conference aims to empower Jewish community volunteers

• Heroines of welfare:

  Women make up backbone of aid program in former Soviet Union

• Laughter as medicine:

  Israeli clowns help kids in region struck by big tsunami

• Getting involved:

  Team Tzadek rallies youth for community service

• Jews stretch their pocketbooks — and limbs — for tsunami relief