news & features

• Shelf life: Discovering the treasures of Berkeley, Stanford Judaica libraries

• Murray Klein, deli maven, dies at 84

• Shorts: U.S.

• Faith becomes front-and-center issue

• Piece by piece, scholars hope to rescue the Aleppo Codex

• Shorts: World

• Nazi lesson goes awry at top Ukraine school

• Little hope for Jews in Putin’s succession plan

• Jews are central players in U.K. financing scandals

• Israel quietly pushes case against Iran

• Shorts: Bay Area

• Jewish conservatives skewer peace talks, politics

• Hate debate: Advertisers urged to drop Savage show

• Two local culinary whizzes vie for cook-off title

• Deck the halls with klezmer at Yiddish Folk Fest

• Clinton and Giuliani get lift from Jewish survey

• Calendar

• B’nai mitzvah

• Calendar

• No end in sight: Rabbi’s plays let you decide the finish

• This year in Jerusalem: Russian émigrés make Jewish connections in Israel

• Locals ready for Maccabi Games in Argentina

arts

• Shorts: Art

• Rickles portrait softens wise guy’s edges

• Civilization makes a comeback in ‘The Savages’

columns

• Faces

• ‘This is my house. This is my family’

• True power lies in our connection to family

opinions & letters

• Religion and politics should not mix

• Voters, put political aptitude before religious beliefs

• Letters

lifecycles

• Deaths

• Weddings

• B’nai mitzvah

• Births

supplements

• Interspecies love makes for good medicine

• Beyond the flu shot::

  Tips for staying healthy in winter

• Generation’s influence continues to echo in job market

• Shop with the wife? Sit around? I’ll take the stage

• Jewish penicillin: Fact, fiction and flavor

• Local storytellers capture life histories on film, in print

• Ain’t no mountain high enough: Pleasanton retiree challenges himself on and off a bicycle