news & features

• Russian revolutions: Young Bay Area émigrés find faith

• Shorts: Bay Area

• Sorrel Scop, father of Marin rabbi, dies at 58

• Henri Korb, ‘larger than life’ French Resistance fighter, dies at 90

• Shorts: U.S.

• Candidates to succeed Annan reaching out to U.S. Jews

• Shorts: Mideast

• Israel skeptical after Assad makes overture on Golan

• Hungarian Jews concerned about anti-Semitic protests

• Israel Center’s head wants to bring local Israelis together

• Ben-Gurion president cuts through ‘old-boy network’

• Interfaith couples find solace in JCCSF group

• Koret commits $3 million for Israeli postwar recovery

• DNA project helps Holocaust families reunite

• Yom Kippur

• B’nai mitzvah

• Music

• Cosmic Santa Cruz couple examine confluence of spirituality, science

• E. Bay rabbi takes the pulpit of his childhood synagogue

arts

• Shorts: The Arts

• Life of troubled artist Modigliani explored in new biography

• Not much to listen to in ‘Can You Hear Me?’

• Southern Jew’s poem was an anthem for Japanese generation

• Little ‘Forgiveness’ for techno renditions of Yom Kippur classics

• Kurt Weill events celebrate art of a musical chameleon

columns

• Celebrity Jews

• Three generations confront their history

• Jokes

• On this Yom Kippur, ask ‘Avinu Malkeinu’ for a sense of humility

cook

• Enjoy a simple, filling feast before the fast

opinions & letters

• A time for proper apologies

• For one man, being Jewish means fixing the world, and not losing hope

• When boredom strikes at synagogue, try harder to reconnect

• Reviving a shameful Ivy League legacy

• Letters

lifecycles

• Wedding

• B’nai mitzvah