news & features

• Shorts: World

• COVER STORY: Breast-cancer survivor overcomes pain, fear

• Deaths

• ORT activist Paula Goldstrom dies at 91

• Leo Sternbach, Valium inventor, dies at 97

• Irving Newman — camp leader, JCC director, lay rabbi

• Judge considers dismissing AIPAC case

• On somber day, DeLay’s spirits raised by pro-Israel group’s support

• Valley communities barely escape L.A. fire

• Jewish groups know little about latest Supreme Court pick

• Shorts: Mideast

• Chinese Jewish wedding — halachic and historical

• Israel optimistic about Hamas’ poor showing in election

• Shorts: Bay Area

• Teens strengthen Jewish identity at fellowship in Israel

• Non-Jewish day school educators tour Israel

• Brandeis Hillel keeps on truckin’ with hurricane relief

• JCF study uncovers gaps in social services on Peninsula

• Commission rejects textbooks for bias against Jews, Hindus

• B’nai Mitzvah

• Social action is all in the family for filmmaker-activist

• Traveling queer yeshiva hits the books

• Yom Kippur

arts

• Modern style, ancient melodies in vocal concert at Stanford

• ‘Arnold Hitler’ novel confuses polemic with satire

• Canadians fight inside and outside the ring

• Bias, good prose butt heads in tale of Israel’s ‘Manhattan Project’

• Parents Circle shows another side of war — peace

• The Nazi who saved Jews

• Writer stepping out with ‘In Her Shoes’

columns

• Faces

• The mercy of God, not just stern justice, determines our fate

• Why’s a good man either hard to find or already married?

• The joy of Yom Kippur: More to atonement than meets the eye

• Berkeley Conservative synagogue to try out new prayerbook

• A time to forgive and forget (where you put your glasses)

• ‘Readings’ make for a holier day

• Revisiting Jonah in the belly on Yom Kippur

• President’s holiday message

cook

• Breaking the fast, renewing friendship after Yom Kippur

opinions & letters

• Day of reflection, not perfection

• Atonement takes the ‘sin’ out of ‘singles’

• A day of fasting, a lifetime of memories

• Kol Nidre is about standing firm in our commitment with God

lifecycles

• Weddings

• B’nai Mitzvah

• Engagements

• Births