news & features

• United in life, divided in death?:

  Interfaith burials meet difficult challenges

• Stacey Ross, Berkeley filmmaker, dies at 58

• Bob Krandel, joker and tireless volunteer, dies at 70

• Shorts: U.S.

• Land sale or land grab? Shul hosts West Bank real estate fair

• As Jewish groups huddle, Iran issue much discussed, but not resolved

• Shorts: Mideast

• Does Syria want peace? Israel is unsure

• Shorts: World

• U.K. anti-Semitism either up, down, or way down

• Harry Potter fans give a warm welcome to Hebrew translator

• What’s Hebrew for ‘yer outta there’? Israeli baseball fans await opening day

• Shorts: Bay Area

• Kol Shofar proponents cautiously optimistic after latest ruling

• Ali G called me what? Former S.F. exec sues comedian

• In Oscar-winning musical, peace flowers from falafel stands

• Hip-hop, Judaism converge when Y-Love takes stage

• Happy Purim

• B’nai mitzvah

• Film

• ‘Role model’ volunteer just keeps on giving

• BJE feast caters to young adults hungry to learn

• Israel, off the wall: Historical Israeli posters coming to JCCSF

columns

• Faces

• Pray it again, kid: Blessings from a precocious child

• Jokes

• Before you boo the evil Amalek, consider the darkness within

food

• This time, take a break from hamantaschen

opinions & letters

• In every generation, Purim will endure

• The scroll of Esther, in a few short words

• Forget the beauty pageants and consider grrrl power

• What ‘gift opportunity’ will define your life?

• Letters

lifecycles

• Deaths

• Birth

• B’nai mitzvah

supplements

• The egos and politics behind the eradication of polio

• ‘Shvitz’ DVD provides steamy look at vanishing institution

• 17 authors honored with Jewish Book Awards

• Shorts: The Arts

• Ed Asner stars in new play examining statistician’s take on the Holocaust

• ‘Jeans!’ — a perfect fit for young émigré performers

• Jazz trumpeter brings bit of Dixieland to Jewish Music Festival

• Ramah Camp celebrates 50 years of Conservative camping

• Camp Guide

• Attention, campers: a message from your counselor-CEO