cover story

• Serving hummus, building community: Group holds high hopes for new Oakland kosher restaurant

news & features

• Jews and the Winter Olympics

• Surgeon back from ‘extremely challenging’ Haiti trip

• East Bay’s ‘Making Waves’ makes a huge splash

• Israel’s ambassador to U.S. will speak at Stanford

• Pioneering rabbi to blend social justice, Judaism in local talks

• Omri Casspi putting a charge into Jewish Heritage Night

• JCHS students raise $8,000 during Westboro church protest

• Anne Frank sapling arrives at Sonoma State

• Panel takes on genome mapping issues

• State Senate bill proposes to protect religious freedom

• Saul’s to host referendum on delicatessens

• ‘Missing Valentines’ workshop for mourners

• Shul to hold Internet conference at Twitter

• Lehrhaus Judaica to hold 36th anniversary gala

• Anti-Semitism institute opens at Indiana U.

• Sandy Koufax to help raise money

• Rabbis call for Rubashkin’s release

• JGooders goes online in Washington state

• New title for Orthodox female rabbi

• Survivor’s grandson buys Mengele diary

• Jewish groups praise, defend Rush Limbaugh

• Bay Area women get the lowdown — fresh from Israel

• As evidence mounts, Demjanjuk takes ill

• Gas found near Haifa coast

• No charges filed in case of protester from Oakland

• Shalit talks break down; Hamas blames Netanyahu

• New Fatah charter omits call for Israel’s demise

• Israeli document refutes Goldstone

• New scare for Israel: floating bombs

• Two Israeli flags defaced

• Vancouver Jews ready to play host

• Canadian rabbi on call for athletes

• Jewish Olympian heads to Vancouver — with her rifle

• Jewish cemetery in France vandalized

• Hungary tries again to outlaw deniers

• Mussolini iPhone application takes off

• French president’s grandson has brit

• Ex-Malaysian PM blames AIPAC, Jews

• Israeli, Jewish-themed films up for Oscars

arts

• Stanford grads share top Jewish book prize

• Local author wins national book award

• Local drag queen to celebrate bat mitzvah

• Israeli, Jewish-themed films up for Oscars

• Anthropologist treks into controversial territory in ‘Heart of Blackness’

• Mamaloshen alive and well at Palo Alto’s Yiddish Culture Festival

columns

• Tuesdays with Selma — a weekly visitation that does my heart good

• If ‘everyone else’ is doing a mitzvah, will you jump on board?

• Forget-me-not, Mistaken identity

• Faces of America, No cakewalk, Shiri and Sarah

cook

• Don’t make bricks when you should be making kugel

opinions & letters

• letters

• Take care when CAIR is quoted as a ‘reliable’ source

• Sentiment against Jews, Muslims puts them in same boat

• How many pieces of history are waiting to be rescued from Haiti?

• JCHS students found the best way to fight hate

lifecycles

• deaths

• b’nai mitzvah

supplements

• German university may drop anti-Semitic writer’s name

• More Israel courses on the menu for local universities

• Former Humboldt County tree-sitter starts Jewish nature camp

• Meeting of ‘twinned’ teachers sparks closer connections

• Ramah goes wild: Former Gideon Hausner teacher heads new outdoors camp in Colorado