news & features

• Hitler’s carmaker:

  How General Motors helped mobilize the Third Reich

• Oded Reinin, veteran of Israel’s War of Independence, dies

• Shorts: U.S.

• Orthodox group will no longer be closed-mouthed on Israel policies

• Conservative decision on gays will be momentous, either way

• National federation leader charts plan of action

• Shorts: World

• With his term winding down, Tony Blair seeks Mideast legacy

• Shorts: Mideast

• Cease-fire: a turning point, or interlude before more death?

• Shorts: Bay Area

• Israeli author ponders the whys of American aliyah

• Israeli women’s group advocates for more gender equality

• Book profiles 9 Hungarians who changed American science, art

• After a 10-year struggle, new Jewish cemetery finally ready to break ground

• Christmas ‘schtick’

• Pelosi’s father defied FDR on the Holocaust

• Film

• Social networking, leadership programs reach out to Russian émigrés

• Bay Area LGBT Jews to get helping hand from new group

• Wornick students get a taste of hunger at Thanksgiving

arts

• Netivot Shalom arts festival

• U.S. theaters pull Turkish film that ADL leaders had protested

• Humorists toss Purim tale into ‘Consideration’

• ‘Klezmer’ cartoonist Sfar draws with a rhythm of his own

• ‘Hi-diddly-ho, Marin!’ Man of many voices Harry Shearer comes to JCC

• Kushner documentary takes middle of the road

columns

• Faces

• Why does Chanukah music sound so bim-bam-boring?

• Jokes

• Yaakov’s tale can help us understand our difficult times

cook

• Say a ‘Shehechiyanu’ for your new kitchen

opinions & letters

• GM must atone for past ties to Nazis

• TWO VIEWS: Olmert speech: Path to peace or disaster?

• ‘Biased’ Mideast coverage reflects lazy journalism

• Letters

lifecycles

• B’nai mitzvah

• Deaths

• Wedding

supplements

• Family recipe reveals a sweet side of matzah

• Festival of lights far outshines that other holiday

• Following the budget shouldn’t take a holiday

• Chanukah tales give kids pictures — and lessons — to love

• Shedding a bit of light on history of the menorah

• At a loss for kid gifts? Area Judaica shops offer many choices