news & features

• Harold Leventhal, folk music promoter, dies

• Karl Guttmann, Dunera boat survivor and businessman, dies at 86

• Louis Nye, Steve Allen’s sidekick, dies

• Shorts: U.S.

• Testy exchanges mar prelude to upcoming trial of ex-AIPAC staffers

• Russian Jewish group at war with itself

• Shorts: Mideast

• Bishop who denounced Hitler is beatified

• Washington trying to determine Palestinian agenda

• Israeli water expert to speak:

  Who’s In Town

• Lulav shortage may affect Bay Area

• Local congregations aid hurricane relief effort

• Orinda student washed out of New Orleans and onto the shores of Haifa

• Author to speak in Bay Area

• Back to the Bible for Jewish journalist

• Burned during Shoah, Torah scroll will be reborn in San Jose

• New Torah for Emanu-El

• Secular Humanists seek following in Tri-Valley area

• Elizabeth Jacobson, Air Force member, killed in Iraq

• Israeli professor with ties to Palo Alto wins Nobel Prize

• Commentary: Life’s more meaningful after a week in the harvest hut

• Commentary: ‘Shut up and listen’ — advice for breast cancer husbands

• Editorial: The booth shall set you free

• Study: Today’s S.F. has more single, unaffiliated Jews

• COVER STORY:
  Organized religion thriving in ‘Bezerkeley’

• B’nai Mitzvah

• Daughter’s death turns Tiburon mother into cancer activist

• Stanford cyclist pedals herself onto Jewish calendar

arts

• Beachside club endures the bombing blues

• First female rabbi lived and died for her faith

• KQED profiles quest for Nazi scientists

• Madonna angers rabbis with kabbalistic reference

• Literati light up ‘Squid and Whale’

• Messy half of odd couple finds Judaism late in life

• Eisner’s ‘A Contract With God’ an epic on Bronx existence

• Comic about ‘Protocols’ the final work of a master

• Line-up for San Jose Jewish Film Festival

• Liberal radio comic specializes in ‘Maronated’ humor

• Modigliani drinks, smokes and storms through Paris

• Forever de Young: Jews do their part to rebuild art museum

columns

• Zen and the art of Jewish wedding anniversaries

• Jokes

cook

• Enjoy Indian summer in the sukkah

• Kosher food that feeds stomachs and souls

opinions & letters

• Conservative Jews betray Israeli cousins with silence:

  Opinion

• Letters

lifecycles

• Death

• Engagements

• B’nai Mitzvah