news & features

• Passover matchmakers connect guests to hosts for seders

• Synagogues working to be more LGBT-friendly

• JFCS, Contra Costa JCC gear up for new ride

• S.F. lawyer honored for battling domestic violence

• Grant by S.F. foundation lets kids stay in Jewish schools, camps

• Local funder helps launch nonprofit to ‘Repair the World’

• $142 million given in just three years

• Union for Reform Judaism closes office in San Francisco

• Shorts: Bay Area

• Yemenite Jews’ secret exit plan could be in danger

• German teens: Jews ‘deserved’ Holocaust

• Shorts: World

• With Labor aboard, Netanyahu has ‘right’ of way

• Far-right march sparks rioting

• GOP lawmakers fall for Obama falsehood

• Shorts: U.S.

• Non-kosher hot dog sparks an uproar in Brooklyn deli

• Anti-Israel letters to Berkeley newspaper draw ire

• Time for a merger?: East Bay Jewish leaders push for ‘new relationship’ between federations

• A good fit: Church leaders reach out to the local Jewish community

• Activist’s parents speak out in Israel

• Shorts: Mideast

• Passover events and seders in the Bay Area

arts

• Tale of Lilith gets new storyline in Albany teen’s play

• PBS’ ‘Jerusalem’ delivers history without controversy

• Susie Fishbein’s ‘kosher light’ does it right

• NBC takes David and Goliath for an ultramodern spin

• ‘Lemon Tree’ comes to Sonoma Film Festival

columns

• It’s a winner, On second thought, Seeking immigrant stories, Bursting into song ...

• Whether you mean it or not, a sin is a sin — and a ‘sorry’ is a must

• With money tight, we can’t afford to let our federations go under

cook

• No bread? That’s no reason to dread Sunday morning breakfast during Passover

opinions & letters

• The wisdom of Earl Raab — at 90

• Trying to make sense of a new, unethical Israeli army

• Recipe for disaster: anti-Semitism stewing in Venezuela

• Grassroots effort plants a seed for East Bay federation

• Letters

lifecycles

• Wedding

• B’nai mitzvah

• Deaths

supplements

• Is your seder ready to say goodbye to fish and meat?

• Craving carbs during Passover? Check out quinoa

• No bread? That’s no reason to dread Sunday morning breakfast during Passover

• Maneschewitz Cook-Off winner delivers a new pitch for Pesach —  a ‘slider’

• Matzah has a long path from wheat field to table

• New products for 2009: once again, this is not your grandmother’s Passover