news & features

• Jews take to the streets after Prop. 8 ruling

• Peninsula rabbi gives Ethics of the Fathers a makeover

• In harmony with Shabbat: Matisyahu, local rabbis will lead Shabbaton at Santa Rosa festival

• Jewish groups applaud justice nominee

• Shorts: U.S.

• Hausner seventh-graders hand out money they raised

• Shorts: Bay Area

• New York plot adds to concerns for Jewish institutions

• Hard-line party’s bill calls for Israelis to pledge loyalty

• Shorts: Mideast

• Jewish woman wins Arab poetry prize

• Berlin rabbinical school ready for historic ordinations

• Shorts: World

• Netanyahu wants Arab states to take ‘steps’

• Essayist, historian Amos Elon

• Dannon yogurt magnate dies

arts

• Swing and a prayer: Sherith Israel’s own to help put a jazzy spin on Shabbat

• Moroccan-born artist turns Holocaust artwork into a book

• ‘Heather Has Two Mommies’ author embraces Judaism in books

• Tarantino’s Nazi film, Israeli drama win at Cannes

columns

• Rejoice on Shavuot, but don’t forget to take care of others

• Extra, extra, read all about it: Jewish paper helps man find love

• The con brothers, Raimi returns to fright, Shecky’s back…

• Jokes

cook

• Let’s hear it for the fantastic, amazing chickpea

opinions & letters

• An opportunity to learn about Israel? Write On!

• Prop. 8 ruling sticks a pin into the balloon of justice

• Miss California misses the real culprit: degradation of women

• Same-sex marriage is a moral issue worth fighting for

• Letters

lifecycles

• B’nai mitzvah

• Deaths

supplements

• Lider of the pack: Israeli superstar headliner doesn’t hold back

• Garden party! Shine, shimmer and song at annual festival

• Bone marrow drive could help save a life … or several

• Local college students prove ‘Jews Got Talent’

• Be’chol Lashon ‘kids zone’ celebrating Jews around the world

• Secular community in Israel sending delegates to S.F.

• To market, to market — Israeli style

• Connecting up: Events for singles means double the fun

• Oranges in the garden: School art project honors Tel Aviv’s citrus fruit

• Israel at 61: Remaining a beacon

• Something new: Test your trivia

• Israel’s first military medical school set to open

• Talented youth performers bring their art to the stage

• Israeli teens to kick off national tour with energetic show

• Film festival focuses on Tel Aviv as it turns 100

• Banking on a good brand: Micro-marketing campaign seeks to spruce up Israel’s image

• How to get to the Gardens

• Shalom and salaam to Israeli consulate’s Bedouin diplomat

• ‘Extraordinary opportunities’: California capitalists like what they see on recent mission to Is

• L.A. confab bringing Israeli, American execs together

• Baby boom: Shaare Zedek Medical Center adds another maternity ward

• Tel Aviv at 100: Going strong and still playing by its own rules

• Here’s to Jerusalem — and why it’s Number One!

• New aliyah program makes a push for Israel’s north

• Archaeologists find clues that female ‘king’ ruled in Canaan

• Jews in U.S. help boost employment of Arabs in Israel

• Putting the zing back in kibbutz living

• Did Israelites put their ‘foot’ down in Jordan Valley?