news & features

• Rabbi Alan Lew, influential Zen rabbi, dies suddenly at 65

• After 26-year run, South Bay Judaica store closing its doors

• Anti-Semitic tone of some Gaza protests worries Jewish leaders

• For some, Madoff losses smaller than first reported

• Filmmaker challenges notion of Jewish passivity

• S.F. nonprofit plays role in movie

• New film on resistance fighters mirrors local family’s ordeal

• Israeli E.U. ties stronger than ever — despite split on cease-fire

• Soldier captured in 2006 now a pawn in Gaza operation

• How’s the mood in Israel? Depends where you live

• Shorts: Mideast

• Shorts: U.S.

• With Obama mum on Gaza, Democrats move to fill void

• Court under fire for denying bail in Agriprocessors case

• Obama nominates Jewish woman for solicitor general

• TV exec: Media ‘finally getting it right’ when it comes to Jewish women

• Shorts: Bay Area

• Mother, daughter have good fodder for talk in Oakland

• Dust not yet settled on U.C. Berkeley melee

• Palo Alto JCC has new name

• ‘Bashir’ flawlessly animates the ripple effects of war

• Shorts: World

• South African anti-apartheid activist Helen Suzman

• Holocaust refugee Lucy Marx dies at 103

• Bernice Wiener, former Beth Israel–Judea executive director

• B’nai mitzvah

arts

• Comedy writer seeks the naked truth in ‘Clothing Optional’

• Shorts: Art

• Israeli film ‘The Secrets’ coming to local theaters

• ‘Shiksa Syndrome’ takes quirky look at dating

• At 96, Tony Martin still crooning

columns

• Faces

• Jokes

• After many long years, Jacob’s blessing has come full circle

• Looking back on 2008 with my Top 10 list of Jewish holidays

cook

• After 10 good years, it’s time to hang up my writing apron

opinions & letters

• Letters

• Israel’s reluctant ‘allies’ are cheering on the inside

• Rocket fire does matter, but will the public buy it?

• Building a bridge between Chabad and Reform Jews

• By rallying, we can counter the hate against Israel, Jews

lifecycles

• B’nai mitzvah

• Deaths