cover story

• Stopping human trafficking: Haunted by her past,  Jewish woman advocates for other victims

news & features

• The tunes of ‘Fiddler’ speak directly to my Yiddishe heart

• Controversial Berkeley paper to cease printing

• In wake of U.C. Irvine debacle, Israel’s ambassador brings message to Bay Area

• Holocaust Center oral history, speakers projects safe

• Martin Luther King III brings message to JCCSF

• JCCSF picks new executive director

• Phones will be ringing on Super Sunday

• Coastside Jewish community honors spiritual leader

• Shabbat Connection satiates craving for Jewish food — and community

• Panel explores role of ancient wisdom in the Internet age

• JTS sheds cantorial dean’s post

• Shire reports positive data on Gaucher drug

• Phony Holocaust claims lead to firings

• N.Y. cantor accused of defrauding charities

• Synagogue burglar caught on camera

• Jewish leaders want U.C. Irvine to react powerfully

• Olmert trial won’t be postponed, court rules

• Disruptions mar Women of Wall service

• Protesters pose as ‘Avatar’ characters

• Disruptions mar Women of Wall service

• Biden scheduled to visit Israel

• Dominican Jew at center of trafficking ring case

• Fake passports put focus of Dubai killing on Israel

• camp listings

• Russian anti-Semitic editor convicted

• Freud-owned Hitler art to be auctioned

• Russia asked to return documents

• Was Chabad target in India bombing?

• Arrest made in theft of Auschwitz sign

• Politician axed over organ harvesting remark

• Report: Vatican will post some WWII documents

• Why is trafficking a Jewish issue?

• Abbas aide suspended over sex tape scandal

• Many settlements violating building freeze, Israel says

• Ancient wine press excavated

• World’s oldest Jew dies at 112

• Rabbi who helped rekindle Jewish life in Poland dies

• Founder of Touro College dies at 94

arts

• ‘A Serious Man’ now out on DVD

• Massachusetts author nabs book award

• Temple stages ‘Magical Mystery Spiel’

• Purim festivities from spiels to burlesque

• Life imitates art in cogent Oscar-nominated ‘Ajami’

• Powerhouse Israeli film dips into a boiling cauldron

columns

• The tunes of ‘Fiddler’ speak directly to my Yiddishe heart

• When we ‘feed’ God, our relationship gets stronger, too

• Askmen answers, Silverman’s new beau, Another American in Vancouver

• Good strategy,  An Olympic trial

cook

• Recipe for success: chutzpah, ethics, ricotta, pumpkin

opinions & letters

• letters

• Will a step backward really move peace forward?

• Free speech doesn’t only apply to those you agree with

• No reasons can justify human suffering

• Berkeley paper’s goodbye means good riddance to anti-Israel venom

lifecycles

• deaths

• b’nai mitzvah

• births