news & features

• Shorts: Bay Area

• Deaths

• Movement opposes Iraq war and court nominee Alito

• Reform Jews call for conversions

• Shorts: Mideast

• Austrians complete probe into historian’s denial case

• Survivor-journalist comes face to face with his tormentor

• Shorts: Bay Area

• Jewish charities may see windfall due to Katrina Act

• German-Jewish relations better than you think, envoy says

• Arrest made in Kol Shofar embezzlement case

• E. Bay pledges go over $400,000

• S.F.-based JCF fund-raiser exceeds financial goal

• Victims of S.F. pizza punchfest claim anti-Semitic attack

• We must denounce Christian agendas that limit religious freedom

• Radical Islamists, not evangelicals, should be the target of ADL leadership

• Jewish history seen through the eyes of Barbie

• Will political shifting alter the shape of Israel?

• Jews in blue: Police officers defy law enforcement stereotypes

• B’nai Mitzvah

• Jewish card set features baseball’s best and worst

• Revealing the double lives of Chassidic Jews

arts

• ‘39 Pounds’ comes out fighting like a featherweight

• Berkeley professor rescues tell-all bio

• Chasing down criminals as an attorney and novelist

• Nuremberg Trials’ interviews delve into Nazi mindset

• ‘MeshugaNutcracker’ to take antics on the road

• The untold secrets of a ‘perfect’ family

• What the Dickens? A Jewish take on ‘A Christmas Carol’

• Israeli actor plays Muslim terrorist in Showtime’s ‘Sleeper Cell’

columns

• Faces

• American dream sours for Russian émigrés

• Jokes

• The cycle of life and death is an elegant dance

cook

• Perfect day for lunch in a kosher vineyard

opinions & letters

• Social action: a year-round endeavor

• TWO VIEWS:
  Religious war in America?

• OPINION: An Israeli Thanksgiving would let us appreciate, not argue about, the homeland

• Letters

lifecycles

• Births

• Wedding

• B’nai Mitzvah

supplements

• Pamphlets, Web sites offer help with debt relief, driving

• Older adults and fitness: Balance, endurance are key

• Aliyah for older adults is good for Israel and for retirees

• Despite aging, Bay Area Jews not growing more conservative

• Octogenarian still sharp-eyed, hardworking for Israel

• Shmooze, Shabbat services and ‘Sacred Aging’ workshops

• Reform movement to focus on ‘sacred aging’

• Shorts: Seniors

• Retiree restores 15th-century ceiling for S.F. museum — ‘and it’s fun’