news & features

• Beth Am hosts polite debate on political perspectives

• ‘Jewish eBay’ faces controversy over offensive items

• Picture frame magnate, philanthropist, dies at 105

• Survivor’s heirs seeking compensation for Croatian building

• Former football star dies at 88

• Shorts: U.S.

• Orthodox group liberalizes conversion process

• Shorts: World

• Shorts: Mideast

• After centuries hidden in rubble, Catalan’s Jewish history revived

• Israeli confronts family’s killer in Polish town

• Olmert turns up the heat on Hamas with heavy sanctions

• Shorts: Bay Area

• Bay Area teens bear witness, form community in Poland, Israel

• Call to action against Darfur genocide rings at Emanu-El

• ADL audit shows incidents stagnant but schools a problem

• JCF ceases funding of Bay Area Council

• Hollywood veteran keeping busy as Jewish ‘Sopranos’ mobster

• A not-so-conservative choice:

  Stanford’‘s Arnold Eisen given top job at Jewish Theological Seminary

• The quake, the fire and the Jews

• B’nai mitzvahs

• Film

• Optimistic Sherith Israel plays retrofit waiting game with city

• Rainbow Day offers new thinking on gender for educators

arts

• Yiddishkeit alive, well and coming to the South Bay

• Shorts: The arts

• ‘Art from the Ashes’ opens window on death camps

• Costumes on display in Presidio exhibition

• Banned in Germany, feted in Hayward

• Wildly eclectic classical cellist comes home to Bay Area

columns

• Faces

• Try as we might, we couldn’t help Mom reach a peaceful death

• Jokes

• From goat to God: ‘Chad Gadya’ tells the story of the Jews

cook

• No need to struggle for lunch ideas during Passover

opinions & letters

• JTS lucked out with Arnold Eisen

• Shabbos in Hollywood is just a matter of respect

• Darfur response shows commitment to Holocaust memory

• Unaffiliated Jews are hungry for more than Judaism lite

• Letters

lifecycles

• Deaths

• B’nai mitzvahs

• Births

supplements

• Mom helps bring camp experience to disabled

• J.‘s helping hands inspired by love of Jewish community

• Israeli artists get creative with community service

• Bay Area boomers write the book on post-retirement opportunities

• Jewish community delivered to new parents’ doorsteps

• Library volunteers find romance late in life