news & features

• Nat Frankel, B’nai B’rith head, dies

• American Jews reflect on bittersweet months

• Shorts: U.S.

• New York’s Jewish music fest melds sounds and styles

• Convicted Maryland rabbi awaits sentencing in ‘Dateline’ sting case

• U.S. Jewish candidates win big in primaries

• Middle East policy could be Blair’s undoing

• Shorts: World

• Shorts: Mideast

• European Jews saw setbacks and milestones

• First batch of rabbis ordained in postwar Germany

• Optimism builds on renewal of talks, but big decision remains for Palestinians

• Shorts: Bay Area

• Israeli TV journalist sees lessons, progress from Hezbollah war

• Hadassah holding fundraising supper

• Local activists raise emergency funds for Israel

• Symposium touches on Israel’s internal issues

• City council greenlights massive Palo Alto project

• Local groups, law enforcement zero in on human trafficking

• Grape expectations: Raising a glass to Napa''s Jewish vintners

• B’nai mitzvah

• A home for Fromm:

  USF institute dedicates new building

• New rabbi blends several traditions

• Rabbi’s unique path to Judaism leads him to Kol Emeth

arts

• A novel twist on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire

• Trapped in the treachery of the Inquisition in India

• Koret names finalists for Jewish awards

• ‘Holy Unexpected’ is almost wholly scatterbrained

• NPR’s Daniel Schorr still musing on news at 90

• ‘Chick lit’ and proud of it

• Three books for kids get young ones ready for the holidays

columns

• Jokes

• Celebrity Jews

• When being yourself is not all in the family

• Teach your children the Torah, no matter how young they are

cook

• As we move forward, let’s clean our souls — and our refrigerators

opinions & letters

• Don’t sweep human trafficking under the rug

• Don’t kill yourself with worry about the afterlife

• High Holy Days — a time for remembrance of family past

• Holocaust museum: What were they thinking?

• Letters

lifecycles

• Deaths

• B’nai mitzvah

supplements

• Chicken-swinging: Good for the soul, bad for fowl?

• O.U.‘s concentrated focus bears fruit in Ukrainian city

• Observant Jews in Russia face a shortage of kosher wine

• Exchange student bridges culture gap over tea, dinnertime conversations

• Someone’s in the kitchen with Hadassah

• How to keep from adding pounds over the High Holy Days