cover story

• Best friends … again: Girls separated in Nazi Germany reunite after 76 years

news & features

• Veto throws divest-from-Israel measure into question

• Holocaust lecture series ongoing at Sonoma State

• UpStart announces second group of innovator awards

• ‘Today is about forever’: 1st green Jewish cemetery opens

• Local ADL director says farewell under deluge of praise

• Students and their robot travel from Lodi to Israel

• Yom HaShoah services across Bay to rekindle songs of hope, courage

• Obama hosts seder on first night of Passover

• Mothers, daughters put special spin on Passover

• GOP’s Cantor says death threats common

• Lawmakers say keep U.S.-Israel rifts private

• Economy takes toll on Boston arts center

• N.Y. court: Synagogue attack is hate crime

• NIF petition asks Netanyahu for help

• Judge says father can’t take daughter to Easter Mass

• Netanyahu, Obama not speaking the same language

• Surfing, shmoozing draw Jews to Argentina beach town

• Burgeoning Jewish life in Brasilia focuses on children

• Poll: Israelis concerned about world standing

• Soldier-turned-journalist under house arrest in Israel

• Arab League renews support for peace efforts

• Hitler sketches to be auctioned

• Ben & Jerry’s to open factory in Be’er Tuvia

• Rioters storm security checkpoint near prison

• U.N. rights council condemns Israel

• Philly Democrat candidate rejects J Street

arts

• Israeli folksinger gives a boost to multireligious women’s chorus

• Illustrated children’s Bible wins award

• Gloria Steinem takes on heavy issues with a light touch

• German-born composer turns talent to Yiddish music

• BBC’s ‘Anne Frank’  vividly depicts determined, dreamy teen

columns

• It’s a whole new world now that little Levi is in it

• First things first: Achieving a special role in the world

• A special award, Four other questions, Passover haiku

• Olive branches, Matzah and Marilyn, Wife of a Greek god, Call me ‘Didi’

cook

• For Moroccan Jews, Mimouna fest ends Passover in sweet style

opinions & letters

• letters

• Crisis point for U.S.-Israel relations?: Coming down hard on Jerusalem is a calamitous tactic

• Crisis point for U.S.-Israel relations?: Obama is a friend of Israel who has a ‘realist’ approac

• Obama is not the first president to try to force Israel’s hand

• U.C. Berkeley vote serves as a reminder to push back

lifecycles

• b’nai mitzvah

• births

• deaths

supplements

• Budapest Chabad stoned during seder

• Israeli parks packed on Pesach’s first day

• Poll: Israelis say they’re not eating chametz

• Mormons holding seder in Utah