news & features

• A people person: Ex-Israel Center head searches for ways to unite Jews

• Robert Upright, scourge of Bay Area fish, dies at 102

• Shorts: U.S.

• Surprise debate on pro-Israel resolution

• WJC looks to future with Lauder

• Mideast fighting casts pall over Bush-Olmert meeting

• Shorts: Mideast

• Shorts: World

• Report: European governments lax on rising anti-Semitism

• Peres: ‘I will dedicate myself wholly to the nation’

• Barak’s victory could spell undoing of Olmert’s party

• East Bay’s federation honors 80-something givers

• JCF Israel office ‘bolder than most’

• Shorts: Local

• Give and take: Israelis study

• ‘Do for others,’ Lantos tells Kehillah grads

• Flag day: Palestinian pennants

• Check, please: Restaurateurs close JCC eateries

• Don’t pity me my Israeli soldier grandson

• Let’s have some jokes for the Jewish father, nu?

• Building for the future: S.F. Jewish Community Endowment Fund''s assets reach $2.8 billion

• In war-torn Africa, a Jewish home emerges: New York woman tells JCF of youth program in Rwanda

• David Halberstam remembered at service

• B’nai mitzvah

• Venetian glassmaker rekindles interest

• Your fare? Just a mitzvah: Chabad cable car tours have only one catch

arts

• Shorts: Arts

• Comic show marries klezmer, vaudeville and gay pride

• The gay marriage of Figaro: Festival presents queer night

• Hollywood director stakes out Jewish lesbian comedies

• A play about being Jewish, Italian and from Brooklyn? Fuhgedaboudit!

• Director aims for truth about Mariane and Daniel Pearl

columns

• Celebrities

• Jokes

• We all fall prey to anger — that is our humanity and our failing

• Here’s a toast — to wine and to Judaism

cook

• Celebrate the ‘age of wisdom’ with adult fare

opinions & letters

• JCEF shows

• Don’t pity me my Israeli soldier grandson

• Let’s have some jokes for the Jewish father, nu?

• Even in death, my dad knew something about timing

• Letters to the editor

lifecycles

• David Halberstam remembered at service

• Deaths

• B’nai mitzvah

• Births

supplements

• Fellowship unites Reform, Conservative seminaries

• URJ hosting Kallah in Southern California

• Orthodox shuls reaching out with a poster from OU

• Local Chabad’s ‘JewTube’ poised to make Internet history

• Synagogue leaders can learn a lot from new book

• Synaplex Shabbat events are a draw — for members

• A synagogue grows in Santa Cruz: With a new building, Kol Tefillah comes into its own

• When e-shopping for Torahs, beware of biblical lemons