news & features

• Would you prefer he or she?: S.F. congregation celebrates transgender Shabbat

• Early major backer of Magnes Museum dies at 99

• David Wohlmuth, Shoah survivor and community organizer, dies

• Jewish Voice for Peace joining anti-occupation rally in D.C.

• Local gay leader savors long-awaited USCJ hiring change

• Shorts: World

• On British boycott, Jews agree on outrage but not on best response

• British document claims Israel may have staged Entebbe

• Shorts: Bay Area

• East Bay federation letter raises alert

• Soviet Jewry activist chosen to head BJE

• Meridor weighs good, bad and Hamas

• Sharansky, 173 others plead leniency for Libby

• Will summer bring war or peace to Israel and Syria?

• 30 years later, Israel’s hoops hero still ‘on the map’

• Smoke signals: Despite risks, hookah pipes are a hit among young Jews

• Israeli experts shed light on inequities for Arab citizens

• B’nai mitzvah

• Film

• Clouds part, thousands party at Israel in the Gardens

• Super-volunteer named 2007 Dinkelspiel Award recipient

arts

• Shorts: The Arts

• Collection plumbs the rough edges of Israeli’s Indian subculture

• ‘Changing Face of Anti-Semitism’ isn’t pretty

• Where is the love? Not in this dissection of ‘Song of Songs’

• Documentary on Nazi trial proves to be revelation

• Russian group uses stage to explore Bible, Jewish texts

columns

• Faces

• Our daughter, the (shhhh!) freelancer

• Jokes

• Don’t let the distraction of visual stimuli deter you from being ethical

cook

• Vegetarian, kosher — and funny? This cookbook does it all

opinions & letters

• Can Israel and Syria avoid war?

• For Sderot, the only option is to evacuate, fortify

• Gaza’s Internet war should concern all of us

• British academics’ boycott targets all the wrong people

• Letters

lifecycles

• B’nai mitzvah

• Deaths

• Engagement