news & features

• iKibitzing: Lafayette’s Temple Isaiah goes digital with podcast

• Sharon tries to put off showdown within Likud

• The next big step: Synagogue needs city approval for cheaper retrofit

• Katrina’s aftermath

• Shorts: U.S.

• Shorts: World

• Shorts: Mideast

• Is Gaza still occupied?:

  Israel and Palestinians disagree

• United Nations rolls out carpet for Sharon

• Curaçao’s sandy synagogue draws curious tourists

• Two men plead not guilty to federal terrorism charges

• San Jose congregation’s new home is set in stone

• Shorts: Bay Area

• ‘Journey beyond hope and despair’:

  Friends from across the divide visit homeland

• Tawonga director steps down after two decades

• Autistic jazz prodigy already playing with greats

• Planting a legacy: Lawrence Halprin designs Palo Alto Jewish campus

• Disabled woman celebrates bat mitzvah

• B’nai Mitzvah

• Theatre

• Capital’s only Jewish day school to break ground

• Ex-Brandeis Hillel head wants to raise visibility of Reconstructionism

arts

• A practical guide for the newly observant

• Shorts: The Arts

• While probing family history, director gets ‘Illuminated’

• Tim Burton’s ‘Corpse Bride’ has Jewish bones

• A twist in this ‘Oliver’: Ben Kingsley’s wistful Fagin

• A Love of the theater: Kids to get a new way to enjoy the stage

• A short, extraordinary life: Biography of Zionist hero resounds with courage

columns

• Searching out goodness when it’s hard to find

• A found family treasure validates the artist within me

• Faces

• Sikh temple becomes window into Judaism

• Jokes

• Keep your eyes toward heaven, and away from the till

cook

• Chicken soup: ‘the only true Jewish dish’

opinions & letters

• Letters

• Poverty is one cause for which Jews must put aside differences

• Palestinian authority or anarchy in Gaza?:

  editorial

• It’s hard to look past the prurience of the ‘Big Easy’

• When is it OK to put members of tribe first?

• Blessings amid the disbelief and destruction in my hometown:

  a local voice

• Letters

lifecycles

• Deaths

• B’nai Mitzvah

• Births

supplements

• Health and tax tips for better living in the golden years

• Retirement brings time to probe roads less traveled

• Honoring thy mother and father:

  Community leaders embrace aging population rather than shunning it

• Rx online:

  Israeli pharmacies fill American prescriptions

• Surviving Hitler and Stalin:

  Memoir tells tale of two grandmothers antagonized by tyrants

• Precious and poignant mementos tell treasured tales at Reutlinger Community

• A family affair:

  Grandson helps grandmother