news & features

• Shorts: U.S.

• Survivor finally learns the fate of his parents

• Shorts: Mideast & World

• Jewish life ‘in amber’ in Ukraine’s ‘last Jewish city’

• Tree that saved a life finds a home in Israel

• Shorts: Bay Area

• 250 gather for Palo Alto campus groundbreaking

• Vandals strike pair of sukkahs in Northern California

• Woody Weingarten steps down as j.‘s managing editor after 24 years

• When Abraham met Sarah: How Jewish fiction writers are reimagining the Bible

• Is Hitler’s curse at work?

• Myanmar’s Jews, who number 20, live in fear

• Shorts: Bay Area

• Shorts: U.S.

• USF gets new Judaic studies chair

• B’nai mitzvah

• A garage hangout — with a twist

• Jewish Study Network imports rabbis to teach in Bay Area

• Film

arts

• Nu Yiddish? Nu problem! Maven’s latest is a gem

• Broadway still ‘S’Wonderful’ for Jewish scholar

• Controversy is this Israeli band’s cup of tea

• Stirred-up ‘Emotions’ revisits disengagement from Gaza

• ‘Overdue’ retrospective of great Jewish American sculptor at de Young

• Jeff Garlin curbs the ‘Cheese’ in low-key movie

columns

• Celebrities

• Yarmulkes off to our near and far-flung community

• Jokes

• We learn from Noah that expectations can be crushing

cook

• Dedicating our house with challah and simple appetizers

• It’s Simchat Torah — eat your scroll foods

opinions & letters

• Goodbye to our managing editor

• Accept it — Google Earth is a strip show of Israel

• Love me, love my atheist lobby

• Let’s let our Jewish athletes be Jewish, or not

• Letters

lifecycles

• B’nai mitzvah

• Births

• Wedding

• Engagements

supplements

• Golden age:

  100-year-old metal artist still creating beautiful pieces

• Senior discounts make golden years a good deal

• Key to good life: Staying active, stretching

• Personal health record can be a help to everyone

• Visit to Germany reunites former staff and residents of post-WWII haven

• Promising Israeli treatment could help millions

• Marin gets second kosher seniors residence

• Programs look for ways to keep seniors spiritually satisfied

• When did my Jewish mother get so cool?

• Shorts: Seniors