news & features

• Jazz trumpeter Klein dies at 76

• Shorts: U.S.

• GM responds: ‘Hitler’s carmaker’ not today’s company

• Rabbis try reaching out to Carter, but say damage from book remains

• Bush uses Chanukah to back his Middle East stance

• Shorts: World

• Harsh words for rabbis who attended Holocaust-denial conference

• Hamas-Fatah showdown could come at the ballot box

• Santa Rosa teen suicide leaves community in shock, seeking answers

• Peninsula Sinai’s rabbi trades pulpit for JCF job — and another

• Note to menorah vandals: Rabbi promises bigger one next year

• ‘Proselytizing’ book likely to be pulled from San Rafael classrooms

• Borat nips Gibson as No. 1 anti-Semite in show biz

• Survey: Interfaith families can negotiate Christmas with the kids

• Take this job and love it: Happy, hard-working Bay Area seniors nix retirement

• Film

• B’nai mitzvah

• S.F. leaders teach Israelis to promote pluralism

• The kids are not all right, says Marin author/therapist

arts

• Chochmat band makes divine music on Friday nights

• Jewish comedian throws benefit honoring slain Iraqi

• E. Bay attorney commissions new requiem for Daniel Pearl

• ‘Rose’ smelling sweet in Traveling Jewish Theatre production

columns

• Celebrities

• ‘Shabbat in the car’ is no substitute for a nice family dinner

• Jokes

• Let the lights of the menorah illuminate your path to rebirth

cook

• Enjoy the edible treats of the holiday season

opinions & letters

• A new year of peace? Why not?

• Treat homeless with the respect they deserve

• Don’t consider Iran deniers harmless fringe elements

• Asking the tough questions about our religion’s future

• Letters

lifecycles

• Film

• Deaths

• Engagement

• B’nai mitzvah

• Births

supplements

• Shorts: Seniors

• Israel following U.S. model for retirement living

• JFCS Rides hits the road 

• L.A. Jewish Home boasts new medical center

• Beaming from the bimah:

  It’‘s never too late to become an adult

• Estate planning ‘what ifs’ best tackled early on