news & features

• Ben Abramovice, pioneer of Jewish homes for seniors, dies

• Shorts: U.S.

• Traif chickens plucked from kosher shelves

• Pro-Israel funds target candidates no matter what party

• Dems fight back against GOP claims of weak Israel support

• Jewish graves vandalized in Russia

• Shorts: World

• Shorts: Mideast

• Same-sex unions roil Jews in former USSR

• Israel welcomes members of India’s ‘lost’ tribe

• Shorts: Bay Area

• New rabbi having a ‘blast’ at Berkeley congregation

• Israeli rabbi to speak here about Reform movement changes

• Employment is goal of new programs for Israel’s poor

• Israeli Special Olympics contingent competes in Tiburon race

• Marin parents aim to remove ‘proselytizing’ book from schools

• Yeshiva bochers open up kosher deli in downtown S.F.

• Happy Sukkot!

• Like father, like son: Stanford prof 2nd in family to win Nobel

• The fight of their lives: Jewish community helping Bay Area lung cancer patients

• B’nai mitzvah

• Music

• Brother of kidnapped soldier brings his story here

arts

• Pearl doc fails to live up to its subject’s standards

• New York romantic comedy sends up psychotherapy

• Vietnamese Israelis go back to their roots in powerful ‘Journey’

• Documentary takes a clean look at soap magnate

• People are talking about JCCSF’s new lecture director

• ‘Wire’ creator finds a muse on the streets of Baltimore

• Al Franken documentary follows liberal icon through 2004 campaign

columns

• Faces

• Up from assimilation: How I confronted my own prejudices

• Jokes

• Think of Sukkot as a joyous wedding under the chuppah

cook

• Introduce fall foods with a Sukkot meal

opinions & letters

• Sukkot is a chilly time of joy

• Ethiopian Jews continue to wait despite promises

• SFSU president keeping Jews safe with mural censure

• Who needs tinsel when pomegranates will do?

• Letters

lifecycles

• Birth

• Unveiling

• Deaths

• Wedding

• B’nai mitzvah