news & features

• Temple Judea founder Harry Shain dies

• Rabbi Michael Robinson, firebrand for justice and equality, dies at 81

• Irving Hamlin, raconteur and supporter of pre-state Israel, dies

• Congress votes to support Israel after partisan bickering

• War can’t stop local family’s move to Israel

• Shorts: World

• Haifa feels empty as residents pass the time in basement shelters

• Trip to Israel a learning experience for students

• Bay Area Birthright group has close call in Tiberias

• Pension managers’ trip could mean billions for Israel

• Not even war can stop S.F. attendees of WorldPride in Jerusalem

• B’nai mitzvah

• Film

• San Rafael hidden child teaches Wyoming Indians about Holocaust

arts

• A beautiful friendship

• Meet the Jewish parents, Spanish-style

• Journalist goes back to his past in new memoir

• Melding ‘guerilla filmmaking’ with Jewish culture

columns

• Faces

• JDate, singles groups and psychoanalysis — when does it end?

• Jokes

• Life’s tribulations are stepping stones to a ‘heart of wisdom’

cook

• Easy weekend meals

opinions & letters

• Anti-Zionist Jews can’t have it both ways

• Rummage sale on a fast day? Tisha B’Av is marked in various ways

• Israel cares about civilian casualties but can’t avoid them

• Language of film can help in troubled times

• Letters

lifecycles

• Deaths

• Unveiling

• B’nai mitzvah

supplements

• U.S. teachers attend unique Shoah program

• Melton School opens fall registration

• Remembering those rough ‘n’ tumble Hebrew school days

• Day schools don’t isolate, they foster Jewish identity

• Special needs initiative announced

• Foundation helps Jewish schools thrive in Central, Eastern Europe

• Forget about grades — let our kids be kids

• Award-winning teacher had an indirect path to classroom

• Jewish studies bloom in corn belt

• Birthright tour caught in the middle of unfolding crisis

• ‘Lady of the book’ brings authors to Bay Area schools

• S.F. State gives Jewish learning the college try

• From Berkeley to Ben-Gurion, a med student who’s all over the map

• ALSJCC gets new preschool director

• Donation allows Israeli professor to recruit world’s best and brightest

• Summer interns get a taste of the real world

• Havurah High gives teens a place to talk — and make a difference