news & features

• Two views: Free speech — at what price?

• Jews speak out against death penalty on eve of execution

• Bay Area brewing kosher and Fair Trade coffees

• Deaths

• Nobel member who opposed Arafat’s Peace Prize dies at 85

• Sylvia Zuckerman, helped found Beth Am, dies

• Alice Reiner, creator of Jewish Home program, 87

• Peter E. Haas Sr., community leader and ex-head of Levi Strauss, dies at 86

• Shorts: U.S.

• New Conservative initiative reaches out to the intermarried

• Shorts: World

• Shorts: Mideast

• Hebrew slang pushes aside older words

• A familiar tragedy at Netanya mall

• Ukrainian university wants U.N. to ‘close’ Israel

• Shorts: Bay Area

• Scholarship ‘saves’ Israeli at Stanford

• Menorah lightings around the Bay

• Israeli diplomat paints bleak portrait of Europe

• AIPAC blasts administration’s Iran policy

• Renovations get the go-ahead for Osher Marin JCC

• JDate comes out of the closet:

  Popular Web site begins same-sex matchmaking

• Documentary recounts story of exiled Jews from Arab lands

• ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’: Is Christianity in film adaptation a Jewish concern?

• B’nai Mitzvah

• B’nai Mitzvah

• A shul without walls thrives in Contra Costa

• Castro Valley cafe serves up uncommon partnership with hummus

arts

• Shorts: Art

• Hatred, fear motivate alliances in Mideast suspense novel

• Refugee can’t grow roots in Wiesel’s latest novel

• Chanukah special isn’t special enough

• Finally, Chanukah music that rocks, swings and grooves

• NPR’s Chanukah stories wend their way from radio to print

• Shorts: The Arts

• Jewish Parisians are all charm in ‘Grand Role’

• Klezmer meets hip-hop with two turntables and a clarinet

• Toothless shtick, banal tunes sink ‘Producers’

• East Bay actress linked to original ‘Brundibar’ production

• ‘Meshuga’ parody of the ‘Nutcracker’ a true delight

columns

• Faces

• Will my daughter dress up Chanukah like Christmas, as I did?

• Jokes

• The presence of God helps keep us honest

cook

• Holiday treats kids can help make — and eat

opinions & letters

• What you should know about ‘Narnia’

• It’s time to accept the rest of the Jewish community

• Iran can’t be stopped from getting nukes but can be prevented from using them

• Let’s slug it out over ‘intelligent design’

• Letters

lifecycles

• B’nai Mitzvah

• Wedding

• B’nai Mitzvah

supplements

• Chanukah Gift Guide

• Housing

• Employment

• Celebrations

• Gift Guide

• Toy shopping for Jewish children made easy

• Chanukah book readings slated in South Bay

• ‘Harry’ in Hebrew comes just in time for Chanukah

• The miricle of oil and the art of frying

• Feast of kids’ books for the Festival of Lights

• Jewish children’s literature enduring growing pains