news & features

• Medical pioneer Rina Zaizov dies after getting Israel Prize

• Judith Gruber, Cal prof and family advocate, 54

• Shorts: U.S.

• Uncle Sam issues Bibles, cheesecake for Shavuot

• Israel parade in N.Y. colored in protesters’ orange

• Successful case against ex-camp guard sets landmark

• Shorts: World

• Shorts: Mideast

• New park dedicated to young Israelis killed in suicide bombing

• Jewish groups launch campaign for rights of Mizrachi refugees

• Gaza withdrawal behind schedule?

• German Scientologists launch ads using Nazi imagery

• How should Israel handle new Palestinian attacks?

• Ex-army chief paints bleak picture of Israel’s future

• Violent crime may eclipse terror as major threat to Israelis

• Shorts: Bay Area

• Flurry of anti-Semitic desecrations hits the Bay Area in short period

• ‘Orchard Street,’ at JCCSF, finds Tevye in the tenements

• Ashkenazi genetics link high IQ and disease

• B’nai Mitzvah

• Music

• Meditating on 10 years:

  Berkeley’‘s Chochmat HaLev reinvents Jewish worship

• ‘A great show of Jewish solidarity’

• Davis Hillel, at 40, seeks to create 1st ‘green’ house

arts

• Shorts: The Arts

• ‘Corner’ finds comedy, meaning in malaise

• ‘Cinderella Man’ portrays Jewish boxing hero as the bad guy

• Gay Israel gets fresh look in film fest

• Can rabbi’s wife be a Broadway showgirl?

columns

• Faces

• Half my heart’s in San Francisco

• Jokes

• Blessings intended for all children, not just our own

cook

• Saving the Earth one vegetarian Shabbat at a time

opinions & letters

• The need to rebuke our friends:

  editorial

• Church-state mix condoned in Air Force and elsewhere

• Israel cannot afford to neglect the diaspora

• From China to Jerusalem — a remarkable return

• Letters

lifecycles

• Deaths

• B’nai Mitzvah

• Births

supplements

• Strokes of luck:

  New technology from Israel is helping to reduce ‘‘brain attack’’ damage

• Men in retirement facilities bond in conversation groups

• A charitable gift can benefit an entire community

• Israeli heroines of WWII emerge from obscurity

• After aiding Israeli ill and elderly, Yad Sarah takes its model abroad

• A new lease on life – falling in love again

• S.F. estate planner: ‘Everyone should have’ an ethical will

• Catastrophic events prompt more to consider ethical wills

• Determined four prove it’s never too late for b’nai mitzvah

• Feldenkrais therapy targets ailing Russian Jews

• Republicans stifle congressional Air Force inquiry