news & features

• Soviet Jewry movement celebrates 40th anniversary

• They let my people go!: A salute to Soviet Jewry movement

• The Jews who stayed behind — and the reasons they did

• Where are the refuseniks now?

• Chairman of the board: 12-year-old is world chess champ

• Shorts: U.S.

• New fund to combat ‘left-wing assault’

• Survey: Under-40 Reform more observant than elders

• Reform biennial aims to address disconnect

• Defining moment: Former Stanford professor invigorates Conservative biennial

• South African Jews cope with depleted community

• Shorts: World

• Shorts: Mideast

• All’s quiet on the Golan front

• For Jews, there’s no refutin’ Putin

• Despite turmoil in Venezuela, remaining Jews do well

• Israel baffled by U.S. report on Iran

• Shorts: Bay Area

• The art of ‘doing nothing’: Youth group adviser honored for 18 years of volunteer work

• Interfaith dialogue presents three takes on charity

• Got questions about aliyah? She’s got answers

• Sparks (not oil) may fly at Latke Ball in San Francisco

• Deadline passes for Camp Swig bidders

• Oakland rabbi invited to White House Chanukah party

• Aliyah — 62 years in the making: Body of Herzl''s grandson moved to Israel

• B’nai mitzvah

• Calendar

• Bright lights, big gifts:

  There’‘s an art to giving — and receiving — at Chanukah

• U.S. and Israeli students connect through twinning

• Long-held beef: Local man’s quest to change Israel’s cows

arts

• Shelley you jest!: Standup legend to headline Kung Pao Kosher Comedy

• Shorts: Art

• Six, count ‘em, comics in New Jew Revue

• ‘Farewell Israel’ is one long goodbye

• Plumbing a novelist’s life of the mind

• Chachkas take klezmer on a magic carpet ride

• Mo to love: Boonville comic to play Chopshticks

columns

• A universal theme runs through all Chanukah stories

• Celebrities

• How this Jewish gal got her groove back

• Jokes

cook

• Treat latsa latke syndrome with these main-dish soups

• Great literature needs great food

opinions & letters

• All Jews have a right to protect the Holy Land

• If Israel needs to split capital, diaspora must accept it

• The Jerusalem divide: Two views

• A salute to Soviet Jewry movement

• True meaning of Chanukah is not green

• Syria plays games with the peace process

• More work to be done in the former Soviet Union

• Letters

lifecycles

• Deaths

• Weddings

• B’nai mitzvah

• Births

supplements

• Shorts: Chanukah

• Sweet treats from the frying pan

• Bright lights, big gifts:

  There’‘s an art to giving — and receiving — at Chanukah

• Remaking Chanukah:

  Environment, social justice groups reinvent the holiday message