news & features

• Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and defender of Israel, dies at 77

• Senator ‘embraces’ his Jewish roots

• At U.N. General Assembly, Palestinians are on leaders’ minds

• GOP, Democrats jockey over who’s best for Israel

• Death of last Kohen deals blow to dwindling Indian Jewish community

• Shorts: World

• Shorts: Mideast

• In former Soviet Union, Reform movement looks to thrive

• 1938 diary now shows pope’s view on fascism to Hitler

• Polish leaders united in opposition to anti-Semitism

• Dog pays strange visit after man’s death

• After the war, fingers, not guns, are being pointed

• Author of anti-Semitic op-ed taken to task by Berkeley editor

• Couple from Ross suing Deutsche Bank over Nazi ties

• Friends, neighbors, family stunned — Jew’s widow a camp guard

• Beth Sholom resolution favors same-sex unions, gay rabbis

• Happy Rosh Hashanah

• Palo Alto ‘To Life!‘fair brings Jewish art and entertainment to the street

• Ocean mikvah a bare necessity for 28 Marin men

arts

• Film looks at the life of Hollywood’s original power player

• Paratrooper’s memoir makes a case for peace

• A novelist who’s respectfully funny about the Holocaust

• Camp Newman’s song for Israel spreads across the Internet

• New books for a new year

• ‘Radical Judaism’ is the rage among British hipsters

• Film offers look at Filipino transvestites in Israel

• A ‘boulder’ approach to art

columns

• Faces

• In single motherhood, friends can be your most loving family

• Jokes

• Book of Life inscription relies on our actions after the High Holy Days

cook

• Apples are at the core of many holiday treats

opinions & letters

• Wishing a sweet New Year to all

• God is in the details — even in the carpool lane

• On Rosh Hashanah, cherishing my pew with a view

• The call of the shofar

• Letters

lifecycles

• Deaths

• Anniversary

• Wedding