news & features

• Shorts: U.S.

• Don Adams of ‘Get Smart’ dies at 82

• Mission to Holy Land brings Jews, Protestants closer

• Year in Review : U.S.:

  5765: Long on politics, short on salami

• Midwest schools using Spielberg’s Shoah project

• Judge OKs $25.5 million settlement for WWII looting

• AIPAC expanding lobbying efforts

• ‘It’s a wonderful country,’ says 76-year-old Medal of Honor winner

• Israelis slip past feds, into New Orleans, to help during chaos

• New U.S. envoy to Israel takes charge

• Sharon prevails but Bibi preps for a future challenge

• Conflict returns to the Gaza Strip

• Israel applies to join U.N. Security Council

• Year in Review : Europe:

  A year in flux for European Jews

• Year in Review : Mideast:

  Disengagement — a year of disappointment for some, promise for other

• Shorts: World

• Intermarried now buried together in Canada

• Jewish group hopes to halt investigation of Nazi-era grave

• Jewish ex-president still swings big bat in Guyana

• Shorts: Bay Area

• Sonoma clinic readies for ‘old-fashioned barn-raising’

• Eco-kosher: More than milchik and fleishik

• Founder of Berkeley meditation center becomes ordained as rabbi

• Bay Area Council receives grant for hate-crime project

• Suit filed after camera shop rejects ‘Jewish Zionist terrorist’ photos

• Israeli Olympic windsurfing champ blows into Bay Area

• ‘From Shtetl to Swing’: French filmmaker documents connection between jazz and Jews

• B’nai Mitzvah

• Benefits & special events

• Chabad family milks most of rural life

• Jewish evacuees rebuild storm-ravaged lives

• Free Loan officials brainstorm the art of aiding the impoverished

arts

• A Kitchenette cooks up a new solo cabaret show

• Producers of ‘The Apprentice’ sue Israeli TV

• No illusion of happiness in Roman Polanski’s ‘Oliver Twist’

• ‘Doctor Atomic’: New S.F. opera takes on bombs, psyches and history

• The dance and theater companies he keeps

• ‘Goebbels Experiment’ produces fatal results

• Chilean director explores friendship, strife in pre-state Israel

• Documentary dares to link Holocaust survivors and Palestinians

columns

• Celebrity Jews

• Jokes

• Faces

• My encounter with the not-so-funny girl

• Jokes

• Tear down this wall between you and God

• Choosing a synagogue is harder for intermarried

• Even at the new year, there’s time for humor

cook

• Fruit compotes put sweet touch on High Holy Day meal

opinions & letters

• Letters

• Rosh Hashanah: the privilege of reflection:

  editorial

• How does the daughter of rabbis measure up?

• Holy Days vary due to lunar calendar

• Letters

lifecycles

• Deaths

• Engagement

• B’nai Mitzvah

• Births