news & features

• YOM KIPPUR: Musings on a dog named Henry, and Monopoly

• WEB EXCLUSIVE: Mission mural to tone down — but not remove — pro-Palestinian imagery

• Shorts: Bay Area

• Munificent milestone: E. Bay JFCS marks 130 years

• Fight over liberal Jewish dean revives old complaints

• Student in Taser incident writes for campus Jewish paper

• Bush taps Orthodox Jew for attorney general post

• Shorts: Mideast

• Shorts: World

• Tents pitched in Europe to build Jewish awareness

• Reports of airstrike boost Olmert’s popularity

• Israeli finance director drops by to visit ‘mecca of high tech’

• Berkeley Hillel head shifts to Camp Tawonga

• Shades of gray: X-ray project examines nuts and bolts of terror

• A sampling of Salaam/Shalom offerings at the JCCSF

• New San Jose rabbi is ready for a little Java Nagilah

• Combating malaria, dysentery are ‘Jewish issues,’ too

• Was Syria strike a replay of Iraq in 1981?

• On the same page: Michael Chabon, Ayelet Waldman write together — separately — in Berkeley

• Sticker shock: Tallying up the high cost of Jewish life

• Frances Gage, tough and generous survivor, dies at 84

• Shorts: U. S.

• Authors must serve up truth if they are to blast the ‘Israel lobby’

• Shorts: World

• Shorts: Mideast

• Out with the old, in with the groove in this Russian Jewish club

• Biblical sabbatical challenges Israel’s modern-day farmers

• Shorts: Bay Area

• To Life … and youth: Kids, teens list five favorite things about Palo Alto Jewish street festival

• Court sets date for hearing on defamation suit

• Memories of the Philippines: At reunion, Bay Area Jews recall happy times there

• At Skirball’s new Noah’s Ark exhibit, you can pat the zebras

• Report: Young American Jews less attached to Israel

• Rabbis encourage ‘watering of the soul’ on Days of Awe

• holiday

• From bat mitzvah to Botswana: Palo Alto girl seeking books to send to poor African nation

• A Persian of interest: Jewish Iranian novelist writes of pre-revolution Iran

• JCCSF explores how Judaism, Islam intersect

• JVibe teams up with educators for b’nai mitzvah essay contest

• B’nai Mitzvah

• Benefits &  Social Events

• German Jewish leader thankful for Russian influx

• Santa Rosa synagogues join forces to create new youth group

arts

• Shorts: Arts

• San Jose opens 16th annual Jewish film festival

• Interfaith romance sparks serious couch, bed time

• Israel’s singing kibbutzniks are on their way here

• For East Bay folksinger/Beatles fan,  Yiddish revival is here, there and everywhere

• Actress sees her role as a ‘Golda’ opportunity

• Jewish producer is show’s ‘Saving Grace’

• Shorts: Arts

• Amos Oz’s latest offers little to solve giant problem

• Only sweet lemons served up in this charming children’s parable

• ‘Kabbalah for Dummies’ really a smart look at Jewish thought

• Israeli oud master has all the pluck

• Self-help books flood shelves before holidays

columns

• Faces

• Sweet memories — The Day of Atonement makes me happy

• The joy of Yom Kippur comes from wiping the slate clean

• celebrity Jews

• The holidays are here — so long, office!

• At the end of our days, will we be able to sing?

cook

• Break the fast withmake-ahead delights

• Hungarian recipes fresh from Budapest

opinions & letters

• Archery on target as Yom Kippur metaphor

• Let’s reduce the high cost of Jewish life

• Who among us does not need to atone? Henry

• Monopoly on Yom Kippur? Sure — if you’re fasting

• Jewish tradition can embrace aid in dying

• Letters

• Holy week should be a time of mitzvahs

• Tradition? For me, it’s hard work and redwoods on Yom Kippur

• Test your punditry skills with this 5768 Jewish news quiz

• Re-finding God in a hospital ‘foxhole’

• Letters

lifecycles

• deaths

• wedding

• engagement

• Deaths

• Unveiling

• JVibe teams up with educators for b’nai mitzvah essay contest

• B’nai Mitzvah

• engagement

• Birth

supplements

• For observant travelers, Shabbat in the Grand Canyon is no problem