news & features

• Shorts: Mideast

• N.Y. rabbi Judah Nadich dies at 95

• Longtime Knesset member dies

• Abraham Kass, survivior of Auschwitz dies at 83

• Shorts: U. S.

• From recovery to renaissance: New Orleans Jews look ahead

• New charter school must stop teaching Hebrew — for now

• Shorts: World

• International furor over ADL’s reversal on WWI massacre

• Israeli porn sites favorites of Muslim surfers

• Shorts: Bay Area

• Musician acquitted of lewd act, may still face jail

• Gold standard: Local athletes win big at Maccabi Games

• Russian émigrés enjoy an all-American picnic

• ‘Highest level of tzedakah’:

  Jewish volunteers pitch in at Project Homeless Connect

• Jewish man tells story of childhood as Nazi ‘mascot’

• Hive talkin’: Napa''s kosher beekeepers sweeten things up for New Year

• ‘Color red!’ warning a way of life for besieged Sderot residents

• Music teacher Achi Ben Shalom not guilty of lewd act, guilty of misdemeanor battery, assault

• B’nai Mitzvah

• Benefits &  Social Events

• New Peninsula Temple Beth El rabbi ‘hitting the ground running’

• Familiar refrain at CAJE: Teachers need more money, respect

• Conference energizes Bay Area’s emerging social entrepreneurs

arts

• Shorts: Arts

• Inaptly titled book shows, once again,  the long reach of the Holocaust

• A smart new biography of the 20th century’s signature genius

• Safed awaits Madonna, hopes for economic afterglow

• Comics who come at you from three angles

• The lost world: 91-year-old painter recreates his Polish shtetl

columns

• Celebrity Jews

• These High Holy Days, you’ll find me … somewhere different

• Jokes

• Before Rosh Hashanah, it’s important to recall the sadness in the past

cook

• The first step to a holiday dinner: Relax

opinions & letters

• Enjoy the fun at To Life, PicnicFest

• Charter school is new ploy to avoid funding Jewish education

• Where are Israel’s political wives hiding?

• ‘Judaism for Dummies’ won’t save us

• Letters

lifecycles

• Anniversary

• B’nai Mitzvah

• Birth

• Deaths

supplements

• Juried show features artists from near and far

• Come meet the staff of j.

• ‘Indian Seinfeld’ bringing his shtick to Palo Alto

• How to get there

• Bring your appetite: good noshing aplenty

• Street fest keeps kids’ hands, ears and eyes busy

• Israeli follows path of music, entrepreneurship to South Bay

• A big August for Palo Alto’s big campus:

  ‘‘Everything is coming together’’ for construction project

• All Israel, all the time for new JCC department head

• Entertainment for the older set

• New name for JCC ‘seniors’ programs

• Groups hope to spread the word at ‘Tents of Community’

• Music coordinator singing the blues — but is far from sad

• At 83, prolific potter is filling a knead

• Spinning silver into Yemenite filigree — in Silicon Valley

• Mah Tovu playing to the home crowd

• New festival director finds dream job in Palo Alto

• Eat, drink, decorate – the magical, mystical pomegranate does it all

• A honey by any other name would taste as sweet