news & features

• COVER STORY:
  Exposé: How Saudis influence our children’s education

• Shorts: U.S.

• Jerome Dick, father of ‘Super Sunday,’ dies at 88

• Deaths

• Hitler becomes an issue in Va. governor’s race

• Old Cleveland gets swank new home

• U.S. Jews and Israeli Arabs: a new partnership?

• Shorts: World

• Shorts: Mideast

• Czech Holocaust memorial reveals tangled ethnic web

• After shootings, Israel tries to head off refueled intifada

• Anti-war activist speaks out at Beyt Tikkun

• Shorts: Bay Area

• Marin and Sonoma: more Jews, more intermarriage

• Israeli’s harrowing escape from death in the Amazon

• The trail of ‘Doctor Death’ leads Nazi-hunters to Spain

• COVER STORY: Jews and the invention of the American comic book

• Personal trainer works on the Jewish muscles

• B’nai Mitzvah

• Jew vs. Jew: A more dangerous conflict than the one with Palestinians?

• Berkeley Bayit celebrates 25th anniversary

arts

• So near and yet so noir: Two films by blacklisted directors a study in contrast

• ‘Paradise’ treats suicide bombing with skill and insight

• Traveling Jewish Theater to read through new play-in-progress

• Pianist coming to JCCSF with Beethoven show-and-tell concert

• What’s going on with the Jews behind ‘Commander in Chief’?

• Having a ball with documentary-making

• A clean, well-lighted JCC for a good read

• Book ‘em: Contra Costa Jewish fest spotlights locals

columns

• Celebrity Jews

• Waltzes soothe my seasickness on klezmer cruise

• Jokes

• Futility, an exercise or blessing in disguise?

cook

• When having company, think of dessert first

opinions & letters

• Opinion: Madonna: definitely good for the Jews

• Letters

• Israel must address the needs of its Arab citizens

• Reducing the Holocaust to 200,000 square feet of cement

• Holocaust memorial an ironic, postmodern playground

• Yom Kippur fast among starving refugees

• Letters

lifecycles

• B’nai Mitzvah

• Births