news & features

• Influential German Jewish leader dies at 68

• Sacramento survivor Julia Bos killed in Yom HaShoah auto wreck

• Shorts: U.S.

• Feds want to dig through archives for clues against AIPAC

• Top Reform rabbi touts gay marriage to Falwell flock

• Shorts: World

• Shorts: Mideast

• Florida teens fly to Tel Aviv to pray for injured classmate

• Aging Israel still has the problems of its youth

• Sudanese refugees in Israel face uncertain fate

• Shorts: Bay Area

• Retired IDF general says soldiers need more than military hardware

• Historian leads sentimental journey into S.F.‘s Jewish past

• Fourth-graders use claymation to teach tolerance

• JCC’s Levine steps down, senior exec named successor

• Different facets of mother-daughter relationship explored in new books

• Day of Conscience for Darfur rallies Bay Area Jews

• Suddenly sisters: Chance encounter at Tawonga links half-siblings

• B’nai mitzvah

• Film

• Pixar producer gets kids moving in animation class

• U.C. Davis to hold academic conference on Jewish foods

arts

• Biography chronicles ‘Redemption’ of American Jewish author

• Shorts: The Arts

• Filmmaker’s ‘Bride’ evokes borders of country, culture

• Suicide bombing documentary is all fuse, no news

• Standup vet a master of her comic domain

columns

• Celebrity Jews

• Unlocking a photo: My daughter and I confront the Holocaust

• Jokes

• Confronting anger — how we can create a true understanding

cook

• Cook up the comforts of camp at home

opinions & letters

• Olmert is poised for progress

• TWO VIEWS: Is free Israel trip a waste?

• The real coalition: U.S. and Israel

• Letters

lifecycles

• Deaths

• B’nai mitzvah

supplements

• Israel’s ‘democratic’ schools, where the students rule

• Israeli education is failing students, studies say

• Do you believe in magic — of summer?

• Camping president says local efforts are paying off

• Conservative rabbis praise camp on its 50th anniversary

• New day camp opening in Oregon

• Bay Area children write home to their families from summer camp

• Fun is serious business at Bay Area day camps

• In its 10th year, Newman carries on camping heritage