news & features

• Co-founder of two synagogues, lifelong Hebrew teacher at JCC, Sid Ruby, dies at 97

• Prominent Reform rabbi dies at 78

• Rabbi Cynthia Culpeper dies at 43

• Shorts: U.S.

• Jews, labor movement still a good fit

• What are the government’s motives in the AIPAC case?

• Shorts: Mideast

• The dog days of disengagement:

  Abandoned pets rescued from Gaza

• Shorts: World

• Taiwanese group says new Chinese characters needed for ‘Jews’

• Can Sharon fend off Netanyahu’s challenge?

• ‘Dear Sudan’ campaign takes aim at genocide

• Honor thy father: Bar mitzvah bash raises funds for mentally ill

• As New Orleans Jews flee storm, neighboring communities open doors

• Finding the way in San Jose: Latest in Bay Area building boom

• Music

• Theatre

• L’chaim on the Peninsula: Sixth annual To Life! festival ready for celebration

• ‘Only another Jew can save me’: Martinez man waits for life-saving bone marrow

• Giants lose, but it’s good for the Jews at SBC Park

• Israeli songstress wows international crowd in San Francisco show

arts

• Bride-hunting in the Holy Land

• The Zen of Zohar S.F. rabbi pens ode to Jewish meditation

• American now defending Israel with pen

• Actor’s memoir runs through A-list Hollywood

• One-man show recounts teenage trek from Montreal to New York

• A ‘West Wing’ Jew close to the president

columns

• Faces

• Power-davening: making sport of prayer

• Jokes

cook

• Have a potluck, because friends don’t let friends cook alone

opinions & letters

• There’s hope for new era in Silicon Valley:

  editorial

• Israel’s divorce laws expose women to extortion

• Is the Christian Right right for us?

• Argentina journey brings me closer to our people:

  a local voice

• Letters

lifecycles

• Deaths

• Birth