cover story

• Mission to Haiti turns deadly serious for Bay Area family

news & features

• Helping Haiti: Israelis, Marin couple assist with rescue efforts

• Lusting for knowledge?: Wander over to BJE’s annual Feast

• New classes aim to bring Jews, Muslims together for study

• Going for the Golden Gate: Yavneh Day School teacher celebrates weight loss with run across bridge

• Diller foundation seeks service-minded teens for award

• Rec center hit by anti-Semitic graffiti — again

• Berkeley Hadassah sets fundraiser

• ‘Cosmopolitans’ author at two events

• Rainy day mitzvahs

• JFCS to hold annual Émigré Community Gala

• In Santa Rosa, Reform teens revel at West Coast Party

• Some Holocaust-era records now available online

• Contra Costa JCC offers Dialogues series

• Scores of Falash Mura coming to Israel

• Israeli and Iranian officials shake hands at trade fair in Spain

• Netanyahu’s ex-housekeeper claims death threat

• Yiddish studies center to open

• Polygamist cult leader arrested in Tel Aviv

• Jordan wants the Dead Sea Scrolls

• Israeli, German cabinets hold joint session in Berlin

• Soap used in attack on Crete synagogue stirs up Holocaust memories

• Vatican addresses Mideast conflict

• Bishops criticize Israeli policies

• Pope seeks to mend ties in Rome synagogue visit

• Forward to publish Israel edition

• Israeli soldier dismissed for protesting

• Rights groups urge Hamas to investigate war crimes

• Cabinet minister visits Abu Dhabi

• Film to be shot about ‘Brazilian Schindler’

• Israel bidding to host next MTV Awards

• Dreamworks to film Jerusalem documentary

• Elton John returning to Israel

• Berlin Museum gets Libeskind extension

• Waltz takes Golden Globe for ‘Basterds’

• Is the Holy Land prepared for a major temblor?

• Two Haitian Jews working with IDF to help survivors

• Jewish organizations take in millions for relief efforts

• Israeli aid groups rush to help Haitian victims

• German journalist Ernst Cramer

• ‘Love Story’ author Erich Segal dies

• Where to donate for Haiti relief efforts

arts

• ‘Wings’ flies away with Jewish book award

• Tale of two daring foreign correspondents — her parents

• Philosopher and writer refutes God’s existence in new novel

• A silent star at Jewbilee? Yes, it’s the Kosher Mime

• Wonder of wonders … Harvey Fierstein, ‘Fiddler’ ready to come ‘To Life!’ in San Francisco

columns

• To Bubbe or not to Bubbe — that is the question

• Was God in effect saying to us: ‘No pain, no gain’?

• Jews (and Mel) on the big screen, Winter sports roundup

• The right man?, Just in case

cook

• This Tu B’Shevat, take your traditional seder to the next level

opinions & letters

• letters

• At the Wall, which side is the right one?: Women are turning a holy site into a political arena

• At the Wall, which side is the right one?: The Kotel belongs to the entire Jewish people

• ‘Avatar’ has a Tu B’Shevat spirit, whether you’re Jewish or bluish

• Haiti rescue efforts show Israel’s true spirit

lifecycles

• b’nai mitzvah

• birth

• deaths