news & features

• Hello, Carol!: America''s most durable Dolly comes home for a night

• Shorts: Bay Area

• Yetta Weiner Marshall, mother and grandmother of rabbis, dies at 93

• Houdini exhumation furor

• Shorts: U.S.

• Document sheds light on AIPAC firings

• Shorts: World

• Shorts: Mideast

• Émigrés breathe life into Finland’s Jewish community

• Conversion offers a lifeline for dwindling communities

• Under Chavez’s rule, Venezuela’s Jews fear for future

• Anti-Semitism in Canada at highest level in 25 years

• Israelis fire back at Egypt over claims of war atrocities

• By giving a name to Lebanon war, Israel hopes to soothe bereaved

• Poll puts Likud hardliners in lead

• Israel gives in on ‘road map’ to grease wheels of peace

• Local honorees amused, confused by ‘Top 50 rabbis’ list

• Kol Shofar to fight lawsuit

• Tom Dine stepping down as head of S.F.-based JCF

• b’nai mitzvah

• Film

• Panel: Jews should be involved in immigration reform

• Israeli director captures complexities of immigrant isolation

• Now, Bay Area Jews can let their fingers do the shpatsirin

arts

• Seattle Jews take on Rachel Corrie play

• Clarinetist disappoints in posthumous CD

• Writers weigh in on 50 years of Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’

• Rabbi offers hints on helping kids cope with mourning process

• When in doubt, kids’ volumes can provide answers

• Cuban salsa a tuneful mix with klezmer

columns

• When memories fade, it’s hard to be the one who remembers

• Faces

• Breakfast with Jerry: Jewish values come home in the kitchen

• Jokes

cook

• Hold the sponge cake! New desserts beckon

opinions & letters

• Passover doesn’t end when the seder does

• Passover pranks to enliven your seder

• The real symbolism of the paschal blood? To life!

• Navigating the left and right: Can’t we just compromise?

• Letters

lifecycles

• Deaths

• b’nai mitzvah

supplements

• Shorts: Passover

• Camp Guide

• Answering the fifth question: Why only four cups of wine?

• Matzah-oven bus taking heat in N.Y. suburb

• Russians look to amp up local matzah production

• This Passover, consider more veggies, less schmaltz

• Jerusalem charity strains to feed and meet need at Passover

• The boys of summer and seder: Baseball, Passover share openers

• For a fidget-free seder, try these tricks and treats

• Woozy seder sends family into ecstasy

• Students abroad often adrift at Passover

• Not ready for Passover? Don’t panic — try baby steps

• Shorten the holiday? Some Americans prefer the Israeli way