news & features

• Death

• Israeli police struggle to identify bodies from mass grave

• Shorts: U.S.

• Hebrew teacher seeks patron through online auction

• Court refuses PLO appeal

• Conservatives to unveil new outreach plan

• Shorts: World

• Shorts: Mideast

• Trial of Nazi commander enters final phase in Germany

• As election begins, WZO defends its relevance

• Weakened Hezbollah tries to maintain political clout

• Expectations turned upside down as Israeli elections loom

• Anti-Israelism a ‘systematic problem’ on campuses, book claims

• Chabad’s mammoth menorah in need of repair

• Brothers learn they own Austrian building, and that they’re Jewish

• Canvases of love counter message of ‘violence’

• Finding light in the darkness: Local stories portray the struggle and stigma of mental illness

• B’nai Mitzvah

• Israeli teens get small taste of S.F. Latino life

arts

• OK already, filmmaker Henry Jaglom is Jewish

• Questionable roster of great Jewish Americans

• Shorts: The Arts

• Novelist captures belle époque mystique

• Big acts rocking their way back to the Holy Land

• Jacko: building mosque, trashing Jews

• School, students shine in documentary on Jewish lesbian

• SFSU prof reviving long-gone puppet theater

• ‘Chopshticks’ with a Russian accent

columns

• Celebrity Jews

• I’m a Jewish woman even if my mother wasn’t

• Jokes

• Ways we can quench our spiritual thirst from ancient wells

cook

• Here comes holiday madness — but first, have some soup

opinions & letters

• An artful response to negativism

• Opinion: How to tell left from right in Israeli politics

• Opinion: Can Sharon stay on top if he’s sandwiched in the center?

• Opinion: Why I protest capital punishment at San Quentin

• Letters

lifecycles

• B’nai Mitzvah

• Birth