news & features

• Shorts: U.S.

• Shorts: World

• Indian city battles to save historic shul

• Shorts: Mideast

• Israeli high court ruling good news for non-Orthodox conversions

• After Netanyahu’s visit, both sides have high expectations

• Teen foundations do it again: Despite recession, youths raise $162,000 for charity

• Can you dig it? Kol Shofar breaking ground on new facility

• The little minyan that could: Grassroots Mission Minyan grows up, gets its own Torah

• Israeli civil rights leader takes on Lieberman, security fence in S.F. talk

• ‘Midrash and medicine’: Conference offers ‘spiritual nourishment’ for healers

• Shorts: Bay area

• D’var trek: Night of Torah study goes mobile in S.F.

• Hitting his stride: Israeli horse doctor sharpens surgical skills at U.C. Davis

• Sticks and Stones: Tell-all book gives dirty details of being in Mick Jagger’s entourage

• St. Louis patriarch feared dead

• Gerald Wolpe, rabbi and ethicist

• Si Frumkin, Soviet Jewry activist

• New book looks at social woes through Jewish microscope

arts

• Cellist Jami Sieber to play benefit

• The iconoclast: Avraham Burg confronts the Holocaust

• Get ready to rumba: South Bay cantor sitting in with blues band at S.F.’s Carnaval

• Sticks and Stones: Tell-all book gives dirty details of being in Mick Jagger’s entourage

• Dancer brings a bit of Israel back to Bay Area

• Poetic justice: East Bay team translates verse of controversial Israeli writer

columns

• What you call your soul is the most important name of all

• Dog-friendly fundraiser transforms a mitzvah into a bark mitzvah

• Space mezuzah, Supreme-ly cool meetings, Short …

cook

• It’s a berry, berry good time of year for strawberries

opinions & letters

• Gen Y Jews are ready to be counted, and counted upon

• In a battle of unequals, Obama lays down the law

• Focus during pope’s visit misses big target: Christianity

• Obama-Netanyahu partnership off to a good start

• Letters

lifecycles

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