news & features

• Darfur dilemma:

  Israel unsure how to handle the refugees

• Lox king ‘Ruby’ Caslow dies at 86

• Hella Margolin, survivor and Holocaust educator, dies at 85

• Fred Oplatka, survivor, generous donor, dies

• Albert Hassid, real estate developer, synagogue president

• Child’s diary of Nazi terror due

• Shorts: U.S.

• World ORT and ORT Israel square off over rights to name

• Virginia Tech’s Jewish community grapples with tragedy

• Shorts: Mideast

• Shorts: World

• Britain’s journalism union votes to boycott Israel

• Rift among Berlin’s Jews signals community’s growing diversity

• Gay blog unites Israelis, Arabs for peace — and waxing tips

• Shorts: Bay Area

• It’s official: Emanu-El is a San Francisco gem

• Knesset member unwavering: Hamas must be confronted

• Texas rabbi ropes ‘em in for Talmud study

• Tawonga gets anonymous gift of remembrance

• Coexistence leader to speak on Haifa project

• Recording company making noise exposing Jewish musical secrets

• Rodef Sholom volunteers aid Hurricane Katrina victims

• Stanford senior attributes Israel, Jewish pride to college experience

• Even Israel not spared from anti-Semitic acts

• ‘Simpsons’ writer to speak in BART country

• B’nai mitzvah

• Three generations mourn, remember and bear witness

• Learning about shtetls from the ground up

• ‘Dead’ relative sends S.F. survivor trove of photos

arts

• Shorts: The Arts

• Author ponders if FDR deserved all that Jewish love

• ‘Domestic’ bliss for Ukrainian-born S.F. actress

• Still skewering after all these years

• Five-part documentary on Auschwitz captures multiplicity of experience

columns

• Celebrity Jews

• 3-year-old’s wisdom alters my view of gossip

• Jokes

• Speaking ill of others an illness of its own

cook

• Give the planet a break with these meatless meals

opinions & letters

• Israel faces a Darfur crisis of its own

• For Israel, time to create a real national security strategy

• Imus: Same old anti-Semitism, repackaged

• Students don’t have to face hostility alone

• Letters

lifecycles

• Deaths

• Wedding

• B’nai mitzvah

• Birth

supplements

• Travel insurance can ease the pain of broken plans