news & features

• Happy Chanukah

• After the stroke, how fragile is Sharon?

• Deaths

• Despite bombings, Trump looks to build in Netanya

• Bush meets with educators, promotes school vouchers

• Ruling aids Austrian survivors’long road to compensation

• Shorts: World

• Prague Jews attempt to unify divided community

• Language rift in Estonian community

• New Estonian shul: It’s almost built, but will they come?

• Shorts: Mideast

• What does new Red Cross symbol mean for Israel?

• Israeli journalist says ‘security first’ may win the center votes

• State halts its sale of Hitlerian items on Internet auctions

• Five-part Jewish lit series in the East Bay

• Shorts: Bay Area

• Cotati congregation revives ancient ways

• Solutions for stressed-out parents

• Go-go dancers added to the mix at Latke Ball

• ‘Munich’ igniting controversy

• Cover Story: Dreidel, dreidel, dreidel: Bay Area collectors put their spin on Chanukah toy

• Conference ‘begins the dialogue’ on mental health

• Will Jews save Christmas? Depends on whom you ask

arts

• Naomi Wolf: touched by God and her father’s wisdom

• Theological anthology stresses divergent opinions in Judaism

• ‘Sex and City’ player amuses Emanu-El with discourse on Judaism, body hair

• Christmas carols may be kosher but they’re sure not tasty

• Monster with a Yiddish accent at TJT

• Israeli-Palestinian cycle of violence gets the Spielberg treatment

columns

• To find the strength to rise, we must let ourselves face hardship

• Celebrity Jews

• Symbols take on odd, sometimes offensive, meaning out of context

• Jokes

• Dinah’s story, like many modern issues, has no simple resolution

cook

• Suppers the whole family can make — and kosher, too

opinions & letters

• ‘Tis the season to stumble through

• Bringing light into this world, one Chanukah candle at a time

• Letters

• New Orleans breaks hearts but restores faith

• There is no ‘war on Christmas’

• Hateful comments do not represent all of academia

• In order to restore accountability, campuses need oversight

• Letters

lifecycles

• Births

supplements

• In first person: the Festival of Lights far from home

• Which Chanukah candles are the best burn for your buck?