news & features

• Deaths

• Bay Area Jews featured in online feminist exhibit

• Sidney Epstein dies; helped Jewish orphans

• Marilyn Borovoy, child advocate and JFCS president, dies at 83

• Dueling rabbis, dueling Judaisms: Ukraine pits movements against each other

• Shorts: World

• Palestinian Authority to build a huge Arafat mausoleum

• Iran’s president calls for Israel’s destruction

• Book fair again carries anti-Semitic tracts

• U.S. accepts Palestinian strategy of accommodating terrorists

• Israeli institute will try ‘to lift Jewish genealogy to new heights’

• Digging deep for roots in the Bay Area

• Shorts: Bay Area

• Marin JCC preschool part of nationwide initiative

• After 20 years of community-building, Sonoma leader moving on

• Interfaith sukkah gathering ‘very good and very sweet’

• San Jose poster campaign grows into pro-Israel training program

• Female writers reinvent concept of Jewish guilt

• From S.F. to Moscow and Tel Aviv: Emanu-El births twins

• Beth Sholom, a ‘gem,’ draws rabbi back to California

• Lou Gehrig’s Disease can’t stop Israeli from tackling El Capitan

• B’nai Mitzvah

• B’nai Mitzvah

• New cyborg in Noe Valley

arts

• ‘Noodles’ full of sexier senior moments

• Donors help make de Young a success

• Sisterly love and loathing

• New ballet documentary on point

• ‘Fools of Prophecy’ hits Israel’s high notes

• Author delves into lives of Jewish medieval heroines

• Book shines light on the private life of Jewish stars

• Provocative tome gives monotheism a bad rap

• Three faiths meet at the crossroads of art

• Meryl Streep is one tough Jewish mother in ‘Prime’

columns

• Faces

• When peering at death at Rosh Hashanah, prayer never felt so real

• Jokes

• The lesson of Cain: Perhaps we should be our brother’s keeper

opinions & letters

• Editorial: Teaching materials get failing grade

• Opinion: Beyond hatred in Gaza lies opportunity for all

• Opinion: Like the sukkah, life, too, is only temporary

lifecycles

• B’nai Mitzvah

• Weddings

• B’nai Mitzvah

• Births

supplements

• Wedding directors can deal with day-of problems

• Attention to details can make all the difference on the big day

• Yiddishkeit at East Coast reunion

• Changing your name – the ins and outs, the hows and whys

• Wedding guests can take attire cues from invitations

• Outgoing couples can register for great outdoor gear

• Bat mitzvah girl chooses the road less traveled

• Hey, guys — a wedding-planning checklist keeps it all in order

• My first Jewish home — more than a shopping trip to Ikea

• Ceremony binds infants and families to Torah, community

• Judaica 101: Essential elements to building a Jewish home

• Book demonstrates how Jewish holidays can bring a couple closer