news & features

• Page-turners:

  Bay Area readers curling up with a nice Jewish book

• ‘It’s about justice’: East Bay endowment for special needs students reaches 35 Jewish schools

• Sigmund Strochlitz, survivor and worker for Holocaust causes, dies

• Arab and Muslim Americans flex their political muscle

• U.S. Jews skeptical of Arabs, trust Israel on Iran, survey shows

• Success in Swiss banks case overshadowed by lawyer’s fee

• FBI probing Jewish backing for L.A.-area lawmaker

• Bolster the bookshelves: New encyclopedia is 22 volumes

• Shorts: World

• Germany backs combating hate as extremists win more elections

• Jewish underground used fake bank notes, book claims

• Shorts: Mideast

• Life’s good for Jews of Bahrain — as long as they don’t visit Israel

• Olmert’s move to balance coalition comes with some risk

• Chance for refugees to tell their stories

• Shorts: Bay Area

• Teen volunteers blend social action, Jewish learning

• New Humanistic rabbi brings worldly perspective to bimah

• Three local federations contribute to Israel campaign

• Kol Shofar, expansion opponents gearing up for Round 2

• Israelis looking for heroes after ‘useless’ war, journalist says in S.F.

• The Silver Age of Jerusalem: Scientists find high levels of metal in ancient pottery

• Eruv raises environmental fears

• The ABCs of interfaith: Parents in mixed marriages sending kids to Bay Area Jewish day schools

• B’nai mitzvah

• Film

• Jewish U.C. Berkeley activist working to stamp out Crohn’s disease

• Daniel Pearl’s parents fighting ‘Zionophobia’ one journalist at a time

• Rabbis here, rabbis there, rabbis everywhere at Netivot Shalom

arts

• Filmmaker unveils family secrets in ‘51 Birch Street’

• Arts

• Dennis Miklos, Holocaust survivor and soccer star, dies at 77

• Shorts: The arts

• Stretching with ‘Mind Games’ impresario

• Author brings a bissel Yiddish to East Bay festival

• Lost Yiddish theater masterpiece revived in S.F. State musical production

• The livin’ is easy for E. Bay Yiddish opera composer

columns

• Celebrity Jews

• When is it appropriate to broach the Shoah?

• Jokes

• After the Tower of Babel, dividing us was the way to unify

cook

• Sweet tooth need a fix? Try an elegant dessert

opinions & letters

• Will Lieberman help or hinder peace prospects?

• Conditions for Jews in Iran aren’t what they seem

• War is coming — and this time Israel needs to be ready

• Does a name determine what a person might become?

• Letters

lifecycles

• B’nai mitzvah

• Births

• Unveiling

• Deaths

supplements

• Demystifying the monthly ritual of mikvah

• Youngest guests walking down the aisle in style

• Advance planning ensures island weddings will be idyllic

• A hardly hip but very religious L.A. happening

• New registry for b’nai mitzvah gifts

• B’nai Mitzvah Rememberance Wall links generations

• No place like home for bridal showers

• Secret to a heavenly union: weekly ‘marriage meetings’

• When mom marries, fortunes change for single woman