cover story

• A lens on the Jewish world: Oscar contender tops off diverse East Bay film fest

news & features

• NIF Controversy raises questions about Zionism and Israel democracy

• Former S.F. fed head finds plenty of controversy in new job

• Record investment for Palo Alto–based electric car venture

• Omri Casspi is king at Madison Square Garden

• Survivor, former Hitler Youth member to share life stories

• Meet and eat at Shabbat dinner

• Rabbi to address new kosher seal, ‘livable kashrut’ at PJCC

• Israel’s top singles tennis player makes his local debut

• Costco stores stocking imported Israeli fruit

• National literary journal relocates to Menlo Park

• Refining the pastrami sandwich: Can a traditional deli serve healthy food?

• Protesters arrested at Irvine for heckling Israeli ambassador

• ‘Indiana Jones of Torah scribes’ now under scrutiny

• Israelis organize massive D.C. snowball fight

• Toyota crashes into N.Y. synagogue steps

• Jewish inmate’s death sentence upheld

• Mumps outbreak strikes N.Y. Orthodox

• N.Y. Times pressured to reassign reporter

• Was Coke Super Bowl ad knockoff of Israeli ad?

• NIF fracas highlights the grays in Israeli democracy

• Holocaust victim lives on Facebook

• Netanyahu’s son wins Bible Quiz

• Shoah survivors battle depression

• Abbas reportedly OKs indirect talks

• Alleged Tel Aviv cult leader described as charismatic, yet domineering

• Holocaust survivor awarded high school diploma

• Nazi-looted Klimt painting auctioned

• Austrian magazine slammed for use of yellow star

• Mussolini app gone from iTunes store

• Anti-Semitism up sharply in France, Britain

• Polish bishop clarifies anti-Shoah statements

• Israelis set up school in Haiti

• He’s got ‘Eyes’ for the butcher, and it’s all forbidden

• ‘Kasztner’ tells unfocused story about wartime rescuer

• Evelyn Haas, prominent Bay Area philanthropist, dies at 92

arts

• Love of music unites Auschwitz survivor, German rap band

• Jewish or not, Daniel Ellsberg provides grist for a film

• Bollywood’s ‘bad girls’: Jewish actresses lit up screen in Indian cinema’s early years

• Rage on the page: ‘Mein Kampf’ deconstructed in ambitious project

columns

• Two chairs, 20 rabbis and a February story of true romance

• What does it mean to be holy? Knowing we’re in it together

• All-American sports, Teen tikkun olam, Short shorts …

cook

• When planning the perfect dinner, don’t scrimp on the sides

opinions & letters

• letters

• The tiff over NIF: Time to realize pluralists can be patriots, too

• The tiff over NIF: New Israel Fund’s friends are a danger to Jewish state

• Hey, curly top, will you be my Valentine?

• In political debate, criticism is core of democracy, and its biggest threat

lifecycles

• deaths

• b’nai mitzvah

• birth

supplements

• A perfect match: Israeli high-tech start-ups lead the world

• Beer microbreweries on the rise in Israel

• Corporate-nonprofit alliance benefits Israel’s needy and hungry

• Skaters, artists and musicians don Jewish designer’s duds

• Entrepreneur takes the leap from home to boutique

• A kosher Metropolis: After buying bakery, owner gives it the Jewish touch