news & features

• Bay Area missions will join World Pride in Israel

• Next stop: Israel:

  Bay Area residents boost national rise in aliyah

• Will the next pope be as friendly to Jews?

• Shorts: U.S.

• Edward Bronfman, 77, behind-the-scenes businessman

• Sophie Jasny, Holocaust survivor skilled at crafts, dies at 86

• Labelle Perlman, 88, helped found Temple Isaiah

• Laurette Goldberg, 73, advocate of Jewish Music Fest

• Alan Dundes, popular professor and folklorist, dies at 70

• Secular Jews update Haggadah — with new plagues

• Shorts: U.S.

• Outlook brightens for Birthright funding

• Mideast fury at Columbia University continues

• Israeli Arabs boost national soccer team’s World Cup hopes

• Shorts: World

• Shorts: Mideast

• Will Abbas outduel Palestinian militants?

• As withdrawal approaches, many wrinkles remain

• Conversion breakthrough?:

  Israel court OKs some converts but draws the line

• Shorts: Bay Area

• L.A. granted immunity in airport shooting

• Accuser of Jewish judge deemed ‘dishonest and unethical’

• Anti-Semitism by the numbers:

  ADL finds vandalism up, intolerance down

• Good coffee, better friends in the synagogue of tomorrow?

• Pope John Paul II, 1920-2005

• ‘He opened the door for us’:

  Saul Bellow — son of a bootlegger, father of Jewish American literature

• COVER STORY:
  The female face of God:

  A window to the soul — the Shechinah

• B’nai Mitzvah

• Music

• ‘I’m a loner’: Muslim scholar ostracized for pro-Jewish views

arts

• Eerie canals: Novelist sets murder mystery in Venice

• Monty Python playfulness: Character actor gives ''Spamalot'' reason to succeed

• ‘Menopause the Musical’ doesn’t skirt aging issues

columns

• Faces

• A hands-on foray into making gefilte fish, West Coast-style

• Celebrity Jews

• Jokes

• After a long, dark winter, spring brings the promise of positive transformation

cook

• The star of the seder meal — matzah ball soup

opinions & letters

• TWO VIEWS:
  Gay pride festival in Israel — sacrilege or celebration?

• Shalom, friend, Pope John Paul II:

  editorial

• Finally, we are turning the corner on domestic abuse:

  a local voice

• You gotta admire a man who gave his elders respect

• This pontiff looked good on a bleak papal palette

• Letters

lifecycles

• Deaths

• B’nai Mitzvah

supplements

• Most AARP members oppose Social Security privatization

• Proper financial planning promises successful retirement

• Simple modifications make for a more senior-friendly home

• Older drivers need to plan ahead, keep skills sharp

• Doctors: Keep an early eye out for vision loss

• Dramatic growth in number of older workers

• Protect yourself:

  Scams targeting seniors on the rise in recent years

• Strolling for fun, exercise and socialization

• Universal design creates a home to last a lifetime

• From client to volunteer:

  After cancer surgery, S.F. man puts energy into helping

• The art of living: 102-year-old painter comes into bloom at Jewish Home

• Reutlinger art director’s works reveal inner spirit of elders, staff