news & features

• Santa Cruz teen cruises to victory as national head of Reform youth group

• Torah falls, congregants fast

• Shorts: Bay Area

• S.F. federation makes some cuts

• CEO of JCCSF steps down

• Go-to guy for world leaders to speak in San Francisco

• Make gay marriage a moral priority, professor says in S.F.

• Intelligence appointee steps aside, blames Israel lobby

• Shorts: U.S.

• Jweekly.com has a new look

• Breaking: Video raises questions about recall election

• A portrait of survival: Students take up artist’s fight to bring home Holocaust paintings

• Deportation of rabbi in Russia alarms Jewish leaders

• Shorts: Mideast

• Hitler videos on YouTube: Chuck ’em or chuckle?

• Shorts: World

• Rare photos show hidden life of partisans who fought Nazis

• Roy Calder, founder of humanistic congregation, dies at 87

arts

• correction

• Pianist Jon Nakamatsu to perform at APJCC

• Teen filmmakers’ works to screen at Jewish museum

• ‘Notes on a Scandal’ author puts delicious spin on bitter family

• Finally revealed: Holocaust-era paintings by ‘Polish Kafka’

• This year’s Jewish Music Festival sings an American tune

• Rare photos show hidden life of partisans who fought Nazis

columns

• New class connects HBO’s ‘Six Feet Under’ to wisdom of Torah

• If the Golden Calf was wrong, why not our golden tabernacle?

• Fifteen minutes of fame, Honoring commitment, Fancy meeting you, Short shorts …

cook

• When dedicating a new home, make it warm … and tasty

opinions & letters

• Not even 100 Madoffs could steal our future

• Cut the Obama drama on Durban II boycott

• Hitler videos on YouTube: Chuck ’em or chuckle?

• Freeman’s withdrawal is good news for friends of Israel

• Letters

lifecycles

• Deaths

• Engagement

• B’nai mitzvah

supplements

• Jewish kilt: Oakland couple gives rise to a new term

• Mazel tough: Three women reflect on their adult bat mitzvahs

• Why so many adult women are rushing to the bimah

• Invitation mishaps are easy to avoid

• Do a menu mitzvah at your next event: Serve food eaten by Jews around the world

• Daughter’s poise, confidence make her mother’s heart swell

• Memories of Miami Beach: Sand, surf — and Pesach

• So this guy walks into a bar ... and meets his future wife

• Paradise lost? Hawaii weddings on the decline

• Rabbis on O.U. Webcast to answer more than standard Four Questions