news & features

• Happy Chanukah

• Haagen-Dazs co-founder dies

• 104-year-old Shanghai Jew dies in Walnut Creek

• Shorts: U.S.

• Philanthropist gives $5 million to Birthright

• Few Canadian Conservative rabbis expected to conduct same-sex rite

• Shorts: World

• Shorts: Mideast

• Survey shows Ukrainians don’t want Jews, but hate others more

• German forum blasts Iranian president’s Holocaust denial

• Israeli army, ag ministry at odds over grazing animals on bases

• Shorts: Bay Area

• New course gives Shoah educators powerful tools

• New Chabad of Oakland off to ambitious start

• New B’nai B’rith head warns of need for vigilance

• Night by night

• Pluralistic menorah will light up Sunnyvale mall

• Peace Now director takes heat for settlement report

• Jewish day school leaders hard to find, hard to keep

• S.F. Bedouin deputy Israeli consul: Home demolitions are ‘inhumane’

• The debate over gay rabbis in the Conservative movement

• The miracle of the (veggie) oil: Remnants of Vietnamese dinners power a rabbi''s car

• No paper Dec. 29

• B’nai mitzvah

• Film

• With the squeeze of a hand, two partisans’ stories come to life

• With bob and bob set to shut doors, Judaica shops still bobbing along

• Jewish Democrats have a latke to celebrate

arts

• A silver lining for Italian Judaica artist

• Talk about neurotic — Kung Pao performer takes the cake

• ‘Oblivion’ director aims to tell the Jewish story

• Book tells of Lubavitcher Rebbe’s deliverance

• Jackie Mason gets apology from Jews for Jesus

• Kitka, Davka play Jewish music for the masses

• Three Israeli tenors a little bit old country, little bit rock ‘n’ roll

columns

• Faces

• Without a dad around, my daughter needs her doting grandfather

• Jokes

• At Chanukah time, we can still find hope in our broken dreams

cook

• Try a new take on the traditional latke

opinions & letters

• This Chanukah, let’s light a candle for our fighting spirit

• We can now be a truly diverse movement

• We shouldn’t change longtime precedents

• ‘Positive’ gay decision still excludes, still hurts

• Conservative decision is chance for halachic Jews to go Orthodox

• Letters

lifecycles

• Deaths

• Wedding

• B’nai mitzvah

• Births