news & features

• Barcelona restoring Jewish quarter — but local Jews say they feel ignored

• Displeased with results, major Jewish funder refocusing

• Shorts: world

• Shorts: mideast

• Iran threat changes U.S., Israeli thinking

• Click here: Download Jewish learning: CAJE broadens its scope by posting conference highlights on the Net

• Shorts: local

• Local JCCs send kids to Maccabi Games

• Israeli firm to build world’s largest solar power park

• S.F. federation sets record with $31.2 million

• Healing and reflection mark shooting anniversary

• U.S. ambassador returns to Israel — to lead baseball league

• A conversion for the ages: Local Karaite Jews welcome 1st converts since 1465

• Pray ball!: Shlep yourself to the ballpark for Jewish Heritage Night on Aug. 8

• Shorts: Mideast

• Rabbi Abraham Klausner, advocate for Holocaust survivors, dies at 92

• Humanists ‘reeling’ after crash kills founder of movement

• China-born author Isabelle Maynard dies at 78

• Cantor outcry over singer’s appointment

• Muslim lawmaker cries foul after ADL’s condemnation

• Shorts: U. S.

• Panama’s Jews, Arabs coexist more than peacefully

• Flood damage to Judaica books reignites finger-pointing

• Holy day

• Fearing strikes, Iran seeks to derail peace efforts

• Daniel Koshland, biologist and philanthropist, dies at 87

• Breaking the silence: Jewish refugees from Arab lands testify before congressional caucus

• Pack up your duffel bags: Grant aims to send 3,000 to western Jewish camps

• Kohn interns explore local Jewish nonprofit world

• Actor Ulrich Mühe dies at 54; star of Jewish film fest movie

• Hilda Weil, ‘Mrs. Homewood Terrace,’ dies at 96

• b’nai mitzvah

• Calendar

• Dancer-rabbi becomes Renewal minyan’s rabbi-chaver

• Food boxes ‘good for the land,’ good for Jews

• Shouldering responsibility: Campers'' Backpack Project — tzedakah and ''fun''

• Rabbi reflects on decade atop local Reform movement

• b’nai mitzvah

• From West Coast to Med Coast: South Bay family to make aliyah

arts

• Shorts: the arts

• When kids ask about Judaism, just be ‘Honest’

• Three’s a crowd: S.F. writer explores love and betrayal in new anthology

• ‘Spellbound’ director tries his hand at ‘Rocket Science’

• Forman’s Inquisition film inspired by Holocaust

• Shorts: Arts

• Word to parents: go forth with ‘fire’ in the belly

columns

• Celebrity Jews

• Duty-free ‘til now, jury tests my convictions

• jokes

• A mature love of Israel allows us to speak up when we see injustice

• Faces

• Can I discover my family’s history with a handful of ‘genie nuts’?

• Jokes

• After Tisha B’Av, we need a reminder that God still cares for us

cook

• Every balaboosta knows that it’s all in the timing

• As easy as pie? You — and your kids — would be surprised!

opinions & letters

• Well, now we’ve seen everything — or not

• Snub may have been the correct response

• Those who intermarry should not be shunned

• Bringing up babies, sabra style

• Letters to the Editor

• Letters

• Remembering two towering Jewish figures

• Let’s start welcoming the Jews of tomorrow

• Conversion has precedent — and we have to encourage it

• What we need is s’more frank talk around the campfire

lifecycles

• deaths

• Actor Ulrich Mühe dies at 54; star of Jewish film fest movie

• Hilda Weil, ‘Mrs. Homewood Terrace,’ dies at 96

• b’nai mitzvah

• birth

• Deaths

• b’nai mitzvah

• Births

supplements

• Independent Sunday schools fill niche in Bay Area

• Meet the Bay Area’s newest Jewish educators

• Mitzvah Corps volunteers mix social action, play

• Bedouin women forge new territory as university students

• New preschools set to open

• ‘Puff’ folksinger turns his attention to childhood bullying

• Israel education needs history, not rhetoric

• Cursed — and blessed — to be a teacher

• DISH offers new Hebrew programming

• Jewish educators honored nationally

• Intelligent move: Israeli professor to teach at SFSU

• $50 million campaign for schools ‘raises the bar’

• Where classes are offered

• Israel trip becoming a popular rite of passage

• Melton school grads get more of a good thing

• Not mission impossible: Chabad often a strong presence on campus

• Hillels do their homework on recruiting new students