news & features

• Auschwitz survivors mark camp’s liberation

• Netanyahu avoids overconfidence as Israel election looms

• Monte Toole, high-tech entrepreneur and philanthropist

• Richard Sklar, overseer of Bosnian reconstruction, dies at 74

• Haredi lawmaker Avraham Ravitz dies

• Interfaith pioneer Rabbi Leon Klenicki

• Book: Mengele created ‘twin town’

• Shorts: World

• Shorts: Mideast

• Obama’s Mideast envoy in ‘listening mode’ on first trip

• Jimmy Carter says Hamas can be trusted

• Shorts: U.S.

• Traveling Jewish Theatre teaming up with JCCSF

• The peace that got away: Negotiator looks back on talks that failed

• Ultimate goal is peace, one Frisbee toss at a time

• Fellowship allows rabbis to focus inward, then out

• Shorts: Bay Area

• The crunch on campus: Hard financial times hit local Hillel chapters

• Vatican’s reinstatement of bishops widens Jewish rift

• ‘The Mercy Papers’: When a mother dies, a daughter writes

• Rabbi wants to put the vroom back into the Jewish bedroom

• A historic haircut: Santa Rosa man toasts Obama with first trim in five years

• The call of Kabbalah: Bay Area spiritual seekers dive into mystical texts

arts

• Video artist asks questions, captures complexities of Israeli life

• Book Review: In a study of impurity, pure fantasy doesn’t help

• Much-lauded ‘Bashir’ gets Oscar nod

• ‘The Mercy Papers’: When a mother dies, a daughter writes

• Rabbi wants to put the vroom back into the Jewish bedroom

columns

• Faces

• God’s work stayed afloat even as the ship went down

• A tasting with the ‘Queen of Chocolate’ was oh so sweet

cook

• Two Jewish brothers have the right recipe for newbie chefs

opinions & letters

• Obama’s choice rings out ‘same old, same old’

• Success in Northern Ireland bodes well for Middle East

• Untold part of the story: the cries from Sderot

• Two Views: Is George Mitchell the right pick for Mideast envoy?

• Letters

• Bishop flap is just the latest papal insult

lifecycles

• B’nai mitzvah

• Births

• Deaths

supplements

• Young at art: CJM program turns teens into teachers

• Local Jewish camps offer hint of optimism during recession

• New York officials approve Hebrew charter school

• Peninsula preschool gets a ‘playscape’

• S.F. Jewish preschool starts free program

• Teachers ponder how to approach Israel in wartime

• Shorts: Camps & Education

• American group comes to aid of schools in former Soviet Union

• Do Jewish schools have too much endowment money?

• Controversy highlights challenges for liberal Orthodox school

• Oakland program guides students to put ‘passion to action’

• A dose of ‘Soul’: Book on child-rearing is sometimes trite, mostly wise

• Universities cancel study abroad in Israel in wake of Gaza war