news & features

• COVER STORY
  And the survey says::

  Population spike makes Bay Area the 3rd most Jewish in U.S.

• COVER STORY:
  Medical miracles: Doctors, chaplains and patients all baffled

• San Mateo man’s body recovered in Austria

• ‘She saved lost souls’: Judi Hirsch, teacher, activist and artist, 62

• Herbert Schein, good-natured jeweler and Shanghai survivor, dies at 83

• Shorts: U.S.

• Nixon was wrong on Deep Throat’s Jewishness

• U.S. Supreme Court affirms religious rights for prisoners

• Shorts: World

• Shorts: Mideast

• Israeli police baffled by local neo-Nazi ring

• Nazi secrets and missing Jews: Arrests in Chilean fascist refuge give hope to Jewish family

• Will agreement in Gaza defuse disengagement violence?

• Israel’s choice: Support Abbas or wage war with Hamas

• In Britain, U.S, sides rearm in struggle over Israel boycott

• Shorts: Bay Area

• Ex-FBI boss: Al-Qaida the McDonald’s of terror

• Local man’s bone marrow saves life of N.Y. woman

• Lieberman optimistic about Mideast peace chances

• Burlingame congregation dismayed by theft of Torah

• Pulling an all-nighter, Jewish style: Dawn 2005 — a Shavuot-inspired music and study session

• Nazis’ solution for gays and lesbians remembered

• B’nai Mitzvah

• Music

• San Jose teens take on Sudanese suffering

• Parents, united by death, cross Israeli-Arab divide

• Are American Jews ignorant of Israel?

• Bat mitzvah an occasion for tears — of joy

• Teen essayist finds recipe for success

arts

• ‘Matzo Balls for Breakfast’ a less than filling literary meal

• Shorts: The Arts

• ‘Kings & Queen’ director hopes to destroy Jewish and French stereotypes

• Downfall of Nazi-era friendship resembles ‘Greek tragedy’

• A long, hard look at terror, and how to cope

• Peter Reigert gives voice to ‘bad Jews’ in directorial debut

• Flickers of hope at ‘Israel in the Gardens’

columns

• Celebrity Jews

• Feeling warm and fuzzy about oneg — chicken dance and all

• Jokes

cook

• Old Jewish recipes contain memories to savor on the tongue

opinions & letters

• Israeli boycott — abhorrent:

  editorial

• Amnesty International report an exercise in hypocrisy

• Why not say yes to the ‘right of return’?

• Honoring the Torah, letter by letter

• Letters

lifecycles

• Deaths

• Weddings

• B’nai Mitzvah

• Births