news & features

• Under fire, ADL calls Armenian killings genocide

• Israeli Arabs also receive assistance

• Israel Emergency Campaign touches all ages in Sderot

• Why is Hibuki unhappy?:

  Just ask Israeli kids who lived in bomb shelters

• U.S. shorts

• Peru earthquake: Where to give

• World shorts

• Mideast shorts

• Animal rights group criticizes Hamas TV show

• Rwandan orphans get Jewish-run youth village

• S.F. labor leader laments decline of Israeli unions

• Israel trip organizers search for silver lining after thefts

• Tawonga campers befriend, learn from diverse Israeli teens

• Sunnyvale deli drops kosher status

• Israel criticized for turning away Darfur refugees

• Holy Land Graceland: Israelis flock to Elvis shrine on 30th anniversary of death

• To you, with love: Letter-writing benefits authors as much as recipients

• shorts: mideast

• Israeli blog sparks terror alert in New York City

• Jewish writer/director dies at 90

• 1st Jewish-oriented charter school to open in Florida

• Author of Holocaust study dies at 81

• German exhibit showcases contemporary anti-Semitism

• Jerusalem dentist, 96, may be world’s oldest

• shorts: bay area

• Sacramento’s Shalom School movin’ on up to a deluxe new home

• Will ‘sorry’ cut it for alleged Wiesel attacker?

• ‘We are our brothers’ keepers’: Jewish community unites to help the homeless

• Jews make out big on GQ’s illustrious ‘list’

• Oracle billionaire pledges $500,000 to embattled Israeli town

• Shoah hero, underground: Danish fighter to be honored in S.F.

• She shoots, she scores! Local woman headed to World Cup of wheelchair soccer

• b’ai mitzvah

• benefits &  social events

• Los Altos teen wins Diller award for work on Darfur

• J. staff writer crafts love letter to grandmother

• Blessed are the transgendered, say S.F. rabbi and the Reform movement

• From the lab to the bimah: East Bay''s newest Conservative rabbi

• Holocaust handbook helps educators teach in ‘morally gray zone’

arts

• ‘Chassidic electronica’: S.F. native, Chabad rabbi make music during Safed trip

• Kornbluth joins Marga Gomez at Plush Room

• Billy Joel biography shows the ugly side of music legend

• Grab the Kleenex: Boys’ story gives readers straight truth, no chaser

• Cantor Linda Hirschhorn creates a most ‘becoming’ CD

• Sophie’s voice Russian-Israeli-Canadian jazz singer to make Bay Area debut

• Barbie and the Bratz: Jewish creators defend their girls

• The magic! The mystery! The moustache! Ashkenazi the Pretty Good to perform at arts festival

columns

• Kong? Bam? Pung? I’m just not crakked up to win at mah jongg

• Faces

• jokes

• Learning compassion at the edge of a bird’s nest

• Celebrity Jews

• To bat mitzvah or not? The question prompts some soul-searching

• jokes

• In life’s courtrooms, we should judge with mercy and justness

cook

• Here’s to couscous — and to family

• No August holidays? Celebrate whatever, Viennese style

opinions & letters

• We need donors to help Israel’s needy

• Jews must deal with historical truths on Turks, Armenians

• Whether or not E.T. exists, we’re not alone

• At Auschwitz, I learned whom I’m living for

• Letters

• It’s time to encourage more local mega-gifts

• Rabbi, I confess: I’m a bad Jew

• Jews and environmental action form a holy alliance

• No wonder Olmert isn’t very well liked by Israelis

• Letters to the Editor

lifecycles

• deaths

• births

• b’ai mitzvah

• Weddings

• deaths

supplements

• Fiber plays role in weight loss, overall health

• Balanced diet provides more energy, fights disease

• Eye exams are necessary to detect signs of glaucoma

• How to celebrate Grandparents Day

• Wanted: Jewish home for antiques

• No swimsuits necessary for Ms. Senior America contender

• So you’ve moved closer to the grandkids — now where’s the Jewish community?

• S.F. program strives to keep frail seniors vital, at home