news & features

• Religion division: How couples make peace with conflicting Jewish practices

• Inspired by Tu B’Shevat, day school kids collect shoes

• Shorts: Bay Area

• Progressive group’s new leader grounded in social justice

• Tween girls come together for wholesome Jewish fun

• Shorts: World

• Jews in Muslim lands anxious over Gaza war backlash

• Israel takes over West Bank hill for settlement expansion

• Pope getting presidential escort for May visit to Holy Land

• Recall election takes aim at pro-Zionist Cal undergrad

• Warriors get Jazzed for fourth annual Jewish Heritage Night

• Celluloid secrets: Contra Costa film fest brings hidden struggles to big screen

• Shorts: Mideast

• Election reform could cure Israel’s coalition headaches

• Jews stepping up efforts for immigration reform

• Shorts: U.S.

• What’s the big deal with big families?

• ‘Hersh’ Zimmerman, businessman, philanthropist, hobbyist

• Plane crash near Buffalo takes life of beloved cantor

• Son of Righteous Gentile from Portugal dies in Antioch

arts

• Israeli family sitting ‘Shiva’ finds all its enemies within

• ‘Two Lovers’ plumbs murky depths of need and obsession

• Jewish identity has shades of Gray in ‘Two Lovers’

• Israeli artists to perform in Silicon Valley

columns

• Taking our own paths of spiritual discovery to experience the Divine

• If God is in charge, does drought mean our eden is doomed?

• Oscar faces, Actors, Writers and composers, Foreign film and documentary, Producers and miscellany

• Did you hear the one about…

cook

• To save money, make Salvadoran-style meals for brunch

opinions & letters

• What’s the big deal with big families?

• Post-election expectations in Israel: strange days, indeed

• ‘Waltz’ a moving experience, but not a universal truth

• Staunch support for Israel should not cost student senator his post

• Letters

lifecycles

• Deaths

• Wedding

• Engagement

• B’nai mitzvah