cover story

• Blue and white and pink: Israel’s first LGBT culture festival debuts in Bay Area

news & features

• Sherith Israel to begin long-awaited seismic retrofit

• EPA appointee from S.F. got a career push from bubbe

• JVS honoree started life over, worked way up ladder of success

• Interfaith group to hold S.F. conference on poverty

• Your iPhone can sing psalms or tell you if a fish is kosher

• Lake Merritt walk aims to raise funds, Darfur awareness

• Online institute seeks to transform end-of-life rituals

• Socially reponsible investing is topic of business panel

• Open house for new Bridge-K program

• Benefit bed race to roll through S.F.

• Essay contest for teens on lessons learned from partisans

• Whodunit for a cause

• Divestment debate to continue

• Survivors group seeks probe of Torah-rescuing rabbi

• Two Jews among top picks for next Supreme Court nomination

• UPDATE: Netanyahu changes his mind, cancels plans to attend nuclear summit in U.S.

• Preacher sorry for conflating church woes, Jewish pain

• Cairo film festival canceled over Israeli film

• Tel Aviv U. launches ‘Meat-Free Monday’

• Beirut festival bans two Israeli Arabs

• Saudi cleric decides against Jerusalem trip

• Olmert aide charged with corruption

• Spies for Israel face death in Yemen

• Czech politician quits job after offhand talk about gays, Jews

• London hecklers disrupt quartet

• New info shows Wallenberg alive after Soviets reported him dead

• Belgium might ban full veils

• Palo Alto man helps develop ‘magic’ pen that chants Torah

• Funny Israeli TV star won’t be using a non-shtick pan when stirring the pot at S.F. restaurant

• Out in Israel festival schedule

• Former S.F. reporter is having a blog mitzvah

• Anne Frank on Twitter @ UNandHolocaust

arts

• Bullock’s estranged husband shown posing as Hitler

• Mitzvah on the Rocks plans birthday benefit

• One ‘Housewife’ finds Jewish niche in glutted book market

• Breaking Upwards’ hard to do for young Jewish lovers

• PBS films shine light on Holocaust from different angles

• Night of Jewish laughs: — and smart conversation

columns

• No such thing as ‘out of order’ at CJM Passover event

• Anniversary mazel tovs, Sharing their knowledge, Next year in a cereal bowl

• True generosity isn’t limited to our inner circle

cook

• Everyone relax: ‘Mazel tov’ brunch is informal and easy

opinions & letters

• letters

• Change world perceptions? Israeli citizens face an uphill battle

• Rejecting U.S. foreign aid would allow Israel to dodge Obama’s fist

• Holocaust memories no longer ‘under construction’ after museum tour

• Dome, sweet dome: Saving a Jewish and local landmark

lifecycles

• wedding

• b’nai mitzvah

• births

• deaths

supplements

• Coming soon: O.U. daily e-mail on each of the Torah’s 613 commandments

• Rabbis are buying JDate memberships — and at a discount, too

• Your iPhone can sing psalms or tell you if a fish is kosher

• Mezuzahs provide a mitzvah at your door

• New gift-giving Web site agrees: Cash is king

• Look, ma, I’m actually marrying a Jewish girl

• Palo Alto man helps develop ‘magic’ pen that chants Torah

• Former S.F. reporter is having a blog mitzvah