news & features

• In Lebanon war panel report, Olmert takes a major hit

• Helen Feldscher, Peninsula Temple Beth El founder, dies at 94

• Virginia Tech victim buried in Israel

• Jewish newspaper founder dies at 98

• Pulitzer-winning Jewish author Halberstam dies in Bay Area crash

• Attorney Richard Jaeger, Jewish community activist

• Beatrice Simon, ‘Auntie Bea to the world,’ dies at 82

• Shorts: U.S.

• Candidates zero in on Mideast in pitching Jewish council

• Shorts: World

• Shorts: Mideast

• Russian Jews are mixed on Boris Yeltsin’s legacy

• French rightist Le Pen loses in election

• Crackdown on Russian protests evokes unhappy ghosts of past

• Station broadcasts message of hope to Jews, Arabs on Memorial Day

• Shorts: Bay Area

• Fire, anti-Semitic graffiti jolt Pacifica high school

• Doctor at Western Galilee Hospital recalls war’s hectic days

• No java jive: Interfaith groups pour fair trade African coffee

• Tel-Aviv Kosher deli up for sale in San Francisco

• Education advocate honored at first EDNight

• Jews wary of Carter speech at Berkeley

• Israel’s canine cops help beef up Bay Area security

• Israelis ask themselves: Israeli or Jew first?

• Defying disabilities: Jewish community teaches kids with special needs

• B’nai mitzvah

• Spiritual & holidays

• Film

• Niddah or no? Berkeley study looks at Orthodox sexuality

• History of Jewish partisans is fascinating for teens

• Kehilla’s Yom Shalom celebrates dual cultures

arts

• Holocaust comic novel a sad, emotional and beautiful tale of survival

• Shorts: The Arts

• Israeli ‘hip-hop violinist’ isn’t just fiddling around

• Documentary chronicles how looting art was part of war on Jews

• Picture books transport kids back in time

• ‘Special Forces’ turns Lebanon war into art

• Unrepentant to the last: Author explores life of Hitler’s filmmaker

• A Klein in winter: Age-defying comic returns to Bay Area

columns

• Faces

• There is something sacred about a candle in darkness

• Jokes

• What is being holy? Ask 100 people and you’ll get 100 answers

cook

• Kids not camping? Compensate with these cookout meals

opinions & letters

• Letters

• Special needs kids deserve the best Jewish education

• Will Israel ever mirror the land of miracles?

• WWII play revisits heroism, disgrace of American Jews

• Israel’s other enemy in Lebanon war — the media

lifecycles

• Deaths

• B’nai mitzvah

• Births

supplements

• Camp Guide

• Shorts: Camps & kids

• Young Judaea specialty programs give teens personal connection to Israel

• Teleconference links Yad Vashem, U.S. schools

• Local camps battle e-intrusions with old-fashioned pen and paper

• Not much has changed in the world of letters home

• Something old, something new —  Jewish camps offer a summer smorgasbord

• The camptown hit parade

• In the mix: Jewish camps rock kids’ worlds with CDs, pop songs and more

• ‘Painting pain, dreaming peace’: Children come together through art