news & features

• Architect Libeskind ‘steels’ the show at Jewish museum site

• Dutch gravestone texts going online

• Nuremberg lawyer dies at 93

• Moral Majority founder left Jews with mixed feelings

• Shorts: U.S.

• Museum says Holocaust documents will be made available to public

• AIPAC to pay staffer’s legal fees

• Survivor refuses to see son who searched for 17 years

• Shorts: World

• One Russian Jewish paper closes; others remain on shaky ground

• Shorts: Mideast

• Argentina sees spike in anti-Semitic incidents

• Labor’s new leader may determine Olmert’s fate

• Compulsory British Holocaust teaching stays on the books

• Report finds entrenched European anti-Semitism

• Shorts: Bay Area

• Anti-Semitic graffiti found in Palo Alto park

• Iranian divestment bill advances in assembly

• Mini-textbooks teach two intertwined histories

• Dershowitz makes ‘case for Israel’ here

• Some synagogues not pledging allegiance to Israeli flag

• Rhapsody in blue jeans: New Jewish youth orchestra seeks players

• B’nai mitzvah

• Film

• Talking terror: Israeli experts get down to brass tacks in S.F. speech

• Tiburon lawyer to head national AJCommittee

• Class blends Jewish genes with trendy jeans

arts

• ‘Bum’ of a son proves father wrong: Israeli friends'' debut film wins big in S.F.

• Shorts: The Arts

• ‘Seven Windows’ opens lost Yiddish world

• Jewish émigré stars in new opera

• Emails capture spirit of Talmud in far-ranging book

• Chabon’s cops ‘n’ gonifs drink, amaze and beguile

• Don’t stop me if you’ve heard this one…: Stand-up comic takes shtick from the Jewish masters

columns

• Celebrity Jews

• Brass? Bronze? Batman? Welcome to mezuzah-land

• To be ‘counted’ is more than just taking a number

food

• Savor summer with the festival of fruits

opinions & letters

• A voice of religious intolerance falls silent

• Grassroots Jews: Do you know who speaks for you?

• ‘Martyr Mouse’ another reason why Hamas must go

• The hitchhiker’s guide to Shavuot

• Letters

lifecycles

• Deaths

• Engagement

• B’nai mitzvah

• Birth