news & features

• HAPPY PASSOVER:

  Stories & recipes

• Shorts: World

• Radical feminist Andrea Dworkin dies at 58

• Ehud Manor: Israel’s legendary songwriter dies

• Walter Norwick, co-founder of Carmel Valley’s Beth Israel

• Poll: American Jews support pullout

• Think tank says Kerry polled higher than thought, but GOP gained among Jews

• Shorts: Mideast

• Survivors, German leader recall Buchenwald liberation

• As Bush-Sharon conflict looms, settlement construction booms

• As pullout approaches, Sharon faces challenge from Netanyahu

• Shorts: Bay Area

• Gaza pullout good for Israel’s future, prof says

• Shareholders bulldoze bid to halt Caterpillar sales to Israel

• Rabbis grapple to liberalize Conservative approach to intermarriage

• Involuntary conversions:

  Mormons may change practice of baptizing dead Jews

• ‘Only kosher ride in the West’ to aid school

• B’nai Mitzvah

• Music

• Warsaw museum on the verge of breaking ground

• JCC and the chocolate factory: S.F. candy maker sets up confection kitchen

arts

• Klezmer-gospel combo pumps up Pesach

• Black Jewish compilation can enliven your seder table

• Comedian at the top of his game at 56

• Film on quest for passport fails to grip viewer Film on quest for passport fails to grip viewer

• Well-deserved biography on cartoonist Arthur Szyk

• Heady murder mystery gets new life in paperback

• Gingerbread man gets Passover makeover

• Koret strives to shatter academic-pop culture barriers

columns

• Jokes

• Kind words can cure the malignancy of an evil tongue

opinions & letters

• Stories — biblical and ancestral — bind us at Pesach

• Don’t do us any favors:

  editorial

• Same-sex marriage — a matter of civil rights, not religion

• Letters

lifecycles

• Deaths

• B’nai Mitzvah

supplements

• A kiwi on the seder plate — why not?

• Vineyards offer abundance of quality Passover wines

• Matzah balls from Chelm — heavy and helpful

• Family memories remain at the seder table

• What’s not to like about a little goat?

• A friendly debate reaffirms my faith in Exodus

• South American winemakers aim at kosher consumers up north

• The best of the bottles: Some top options for Passover wine

• Chef channels bubbe for Passover recipes