news & features

• Mauthausen liberator, Temple Sholom founder Thomas Soss dies

• Auschwitz escapee dies at 82

• Shorts: U.S.

• ‘Peaceful’ video game has value, but will it sell?

• Meet Bush’s newest liaison to the Jewish community

• Shorts: World

• Shorts: Mideast

• Scandals raise question: Why have chief rabbis?

• Peace mission hits wall at Libyan border

• As more French Jews leave for Israel, group provides aliyah support

• Shorts: Bay Area

• ‘Tel Aviv One’ draws dozens of local young Jewish adults

• Sausalito woman promoting global healing confab

• Teitelbaum honored for 10 years as head of Board of Rabbis

• Panel: Religious support is key to same-sex marriage victory

• Israel still grappling with ‘bride’ won in ‘67 war, author says

• Israeli journalist predicts good, bad and ugly of nation’s future

• Rabbi Shmuley Boteach does home improvement

• Amid pressure from Labor, Kadima seeks to form strongest coalition

• Happy Passover

• B’nai mitzvah

• Film

• Holocaust Museum restoration expert saves ghetto diary

• Palo Alto JCC honors benefactors at fund-raiser

• 10-year-old chess champ is king of the board

arts

• Jewish musicians perform at New Orleans benefit

• Black Hebrew singer to represent Israel

• Masters of metal gather for another rock seder

• Plucky musician comes to the Bay Area

• Sit back and relax with a little seder music

• Foul-mouthed duo unchallenged kings of Jewish joke pop world

• Miniseries turns Exodus saga into soulless melodrama

• Clowning comes naturally to Hebrew Academy grad

columns

• Celebrity Jews

• Wooing potential converts may take a light touch

• Jokes

• The gift of tolerance comes in ‘sacrificing’ our anger and ego

cook

• Oranges make a fine addition to seder plates — and dishes

opinions & letters

• Letters

• A time to celebrate, a time to remember

• TWO VIEWS: How to deal with Hamas

• To Jewish refugees from Arab countries: We will not forget you

lifecycles

• Deaths

• Engagement

• B’nai mitzvah

• Birth