news & features

• Shorts: Mideast

• Shorts: U.S.

• Shorts: Bay Area

• A Giant step — ballplayer enjoys his big-league ride

• Rosalie Gitin dies; rebbetzin in San Jose for 26 years

• Ethics storm clouds image of Orthodox lobbyist

• Jews talk of breaking ties with divestment-hungry churches

• Survivors protest bank, demand disclosure

• Swedes bury skull of Jewish thief — 126 years later

• Outrage grows over academics’ vote to sever Israel ties

• Shorts: World

• Shorts: Mideast

• Are visits by Russia and Turkey historic or merely symbolic?

• Holocaust memorial in Berlin to open amid continued resistance

• Sharansky quits over withdrawal

• Shorts: Bay Area

• Renewal rabbis back their Reform colleagues in Russia

• Israel — no longer just a word in textbooks here

• East Bay JFCS scouts for new director

• With Pentagon arrest, is AIPAC now out of the crosshairs?

• COVER STORY:
  Knockout!:

  In this corner: San Mateo’‘s world-champion kickboxer Brian Schwartz

• B’nai Mitzvah

• Music

• Oakland activist wins ‘mother’ of all awards

• BJE’s associate director spent 30 years movin’ on up

• Reality show winner struts new brand of Israeli diplomacy

• The sky’s the limit for Palo Alto philanthropist

arts

• Novelist weighs prose and cons

• New ‘Judgment at Nuremberg’ guilty of dreariness

• In ‘Hannah and Martin,’ great minds don’t think alike

• Rastafarians and Jews rock steady in ‘Awake Zion’

• Austrian women swam to glory — and safety

• Jewish lawyer, neo-Nazi spar in TJT’s newest, ‘The Cherry Docs’

columns

• Faces

• Border dispute:
  When does a wandering Jew go too far?

opinions & letters

• The mother of all holidays:

  editorial

• African American march embracing anti-Semitic leadership

• TWO VIEWS:
  Does Jewish education pass the test?

• Letters

lifecycles

• Deaths

• Engagements

• B’nai Mitzvah

• Births

supplements

• Compromising careers for motherhood

• Teenagers catch up on cleanup

• American scores big with Israeli basketball camp

• Vallejo camp reopens after more than a decade

• Tunes change with times

• From Messy Day to Go Karts, day camps go for thrills and skills

• Overnight camps buckle up for wild summer ride