news & features

• Hey now!: SFSU honors star actor alum and S.F. native Jeffrey Tambor

• Independent school celebrates first b’nai mitzvah in 46 years

• Award winner’s greatest joy: investing in a ‘Jewish future’

• Law to lit: Attorney creates a post-modern parable

• Shabbat swap: Grassroots program helps North Bay Jews find Friday night lights

• Jewish library director to start new chapter after 28 years

• Obama, Netanyahu: a new approach to a lasting peace?

• Israelis watching, waiting, wondering about U.S. tack

• Pope steps into Mideast minefields during visit to Israel

• Demjanjuk arrives in German prison to face Nazi guard charges

• YU chancellor: Non-Orthodox Judaism on the way out

• Obama proclaims Jewish American Heritage Month

• Militant anti-gay church turns its sights on Jews

• She fought back: Former Jewish partisan tells her story

• ADL wants Facebook to bar Holocaust-denier groups

• Omission

• Shorts: U.S.

• Shorts: Bay Area

• Shorts: World

• Lion Koppman, chronicler of Jewish Americana, dies at 88

arts

• JCHS students find voices with original one-act plays

• Israeli actress takes it to next level in ‘Angels & Demons’

• Doctor and rabbi team up to offer answers on suffering

• Shorts: Art

columns

• Bar mitzvah parties don’t diminish the rite of passage

• We can’t understand or control everything — and that’s good

• Jokes

• Beautiful punim, ‘Idol’ overdrive, Influence in Time, Night at the Jewish Museum? ...

cook

• For a healthy lifestyle, cooking at home is the key to success

opinions & letters

• Too unconnected to Israel

• Women’s talents remain sadly in the shadows

• What if we were 32 million strong? But we aren’t

• Holocaust denial has no place on Facebook

• Letters

lifecycles

• B’nai mitzvah

• Births

• Deaths

supplements

• Need more oomph? Just ask the ‘Double Energy Twins’

• ‘Brain gym’ program fits right in at PJCC