news & features

• Koret awards ditch academia for more ‘popular’ writers

• Rabbi Samuel Graudenz, ‘Pied Piper’ of congregation, dies

• Judith Nahshon, Israeli pioneer and mother of longtime federation head, dies at 90

• Shorts: World

• Shorts: Mideast

• Germany hosts U.S. Holocaust Museum eugenics exhibit

• Failure plagued Rice’s Mideast misadventure

• Shorts: Bay Area

• Who would vote for this clown?

• Building ‘a new Jewish tomorrow’ in the East Bay

• Israel must stop victimizing itself, says Yael Dayan in S.F.

• With expansion plans in flux, Kol Shofar throws down gauntlet

• Soros pairing with dovish Jews to consider AIPAC alternative

• Bright lights, big sukkah: Oakland men build solar-powered shelter for Sukkot

• The young folks’ home: Hubs for 20-somethings sprout in S.F., Berkeley — and world

• B’nai mitzvah

• Film

• Music

• AJCommittee is looking good — and doing good — at 100

• Youthful Denver native heads BBYO international

arts

• Shorts: The Arts

• Plenty of schmaltz, ham in doc about NYC restaurateur

• Museum exhibit shoots down Jewish stereotypes

• Rabbi’s World Series prediction: Anybody but the Cubs

• Poland’s Jewish ‘renaissance’ comes to the Bay Area

columns

• Celebrity Jews

• Imagine John Lennon as a Jewish sage for the modern world

• Jokes

• It’s not the years that matter, but what you do while living them

cook

• Celebrate the bounty of fall in the sukkah

opinions & letters

• What you may not know about new Purim film

• At Auschwitz, Buddhist meditation set me free

• Jewish nonprofits must think big to attract mega-gifts

• It’s time to learn the fate of Raoul Wallenberg

• Letters

lifecycles

• Deaths

• B’nai mitzvah

supplements

• Easy modifications can prevent slips in the home

• How to keep from losing money down the donut hole

• Boomers about to explode on the retirement scene

• A musician in tune with many facets of life

• Is your doctor right for you?

• Caregivers workshop at Marin JFCS

• Proving she’s Jewish was a Dutch treat for my cousin

• America’s 1st female rabbi ‘un-retiring’ in retirement

• Comedy is king for Elderhostel program director in S.F.

• New pension law opens door for charitable donations