news & features

• Grassroots Jewish group gets its start on MySpace

• Louis Heilbron, lawyer and community leader, dies at 99

• Auschwitz survivor Wolf Sattler dies at 87

• Shorts: U.S.

• New Reform commentary looks at Torah through women’s eyes

• His term was short, but Gerald Ford left mark on Soviet Jewry

• Shorts: World

• Shorts: Mideast

• Will the new U.N. give Israel a fairer treatment?

• Polish priest shuts down anti-Semitic bookstore

• Israel’s new U.S. ambassador popular with American Jews

• Shorts: Bay Area

• Second South Bay menorah defaced

• San Jose convention is next target for divestment fight

• Foothill College gets in Jewish spirit during heritage month

• Bay Area Jewish leaders recall Teddy Kollek as a good friend, great mayor

• Amid grumbling, UJC may get out of population survey business

• L.A. social action program migrates to Bay Area

• The story of my life: Jewish memoir writers turn to the subject they know best

• B’nai mitzvah

• JFCS expands via new North Peninsula center

• Successful S.F. teen program enters the national stage

• Dust, vacuum, scrub: JFCS mixes business and social service

arts

• Neo-klezmer artist Andy Statman makes an uneven set of discs

• PBS documentary explores the ugliness of anti-Semitism

• Cantor revives 1959 opera based on Book of Ruth

• Raise the baton for Israel Philharmonic’s 70th

• Joplin’s drummer remembers the ‘turn on, tune in’ days

• Klezmer band adds a dash of paprika

columns

• Faces

• German consul general changing hearts, minds one talk at a time

• Jokes

• On his deathbed, Jacob ensured peace by being clear about the future

food

• This ‘Bible code’ can predict a full stomach

opinions & letters

• The passing of 2 giants of Jewish history

• Dialogue with Muslims: Possible, or pipe dream?

• Saddam, Arafat are examples of Arab world’s delusions — and our own

• To defeat radicalism, everyone needs to turn off their oil spiggot

• Letters

lifecycles

• Deaths

• B’nai mitzvah

• Births