cover story

• Ruff love: Canine Corps brings healing spirit of dogs home to seniors

news & features

• U.N. investigator of Gaza war barred from grandson’s bar mitzvah

• U.C. Berkeley student senate votes to uphold veto of divest-from-Israel resolution

• Jewish groups turn up heat on ‘defiant’ CalPERS: Nation’s largest public pension fund ignoring

• Women to gather for Torah study, conversation, song

• Bringing the Holocaust into the light

• ‘Mind-bending’ Torah scholar set for five Bay Area lectures

• Trip to mark S.F.-Krakow anniversary

• Capitol event honors survivors, liberators

• Divestment debate draws big names

• Berkeley survivor dedicates life to sharing his heartrending story

• Out of line

• PJCC benefit brings Spain to Foster City

• Mah-jongg, film to celebrate two cultures

• Author to discuss Soviet Jewry movement

• All things Yiddish coming to Millbrae

• Temple Isaiah fetes co-rabbis Shanks and Graetz

• Poll: U.S. Jews still favor Obama on Israel, security

• Obama honors memory of Holocaust victims

• Officials shoot down rumor of visa denials

• E-mails surface about U.C. Irvine ‘disrupters’

• Dad gets OK to take daughter to church

• Obama: U.S. can’t force a Mideast peace deal

• Senators stress value of U.S.-Israel ties

• Olmert trial on hold as new scandal grows

• Journalist says she wanted to expose IDF

• Battles over east Jerusalem continue to flare

• Jews all over world grieve death of Polish president

• Shul in Kyrgyzstan attacked amid upheaval

• Judge who jailed neo-Nazis is killed

• Demjanjuk says his trial for war crimes has been ‘torture’

• Hungarian elections take swing to right

• Italian man sentenced for ‘Jewish lobby’ list

• South America bloc to trade with Israel

• Report: Anti-Semitism doubles in 2009

• Alleged Holocaust soap to be tested

• Thousands visit disputed West Bank tombs

• Israeli officials reject U.S.-imposed plan

• Emergency room to be built over graves

• Ramallah street named for terrorist

• Warning sends Sinai vacationers home

• Officials: No heat on Israel at summit

• Right-wing presidential candidate brings Austria’s Nazi past to fore

arts

• With new book, author lives up to his famous family name

• Family’s past leads sultry songstress into some dark places

• Andy Warhol: Good for this Jew

columns

• My surrogate parents help make Bay Area feel more like home

• Sometimes you need to make a sacrifice to ensure good for all

• A meaty story, How to increase sales, Please help

• On the diamond, New flicks

cook

• Celebrate Israel with an Independence Day favorite: fried chicken

opinions & letters

• letters

• U.S. aid to Israel provides huge return on investment

• Polish president felt a special kinship with Jews

• Loving Israel is in the details

• CalPERS must comply with Iran divestment law

lifecycles

• b’nai mitzvah

• births

• deaths

supplements

• Ongoing opportunity to help at food pantry

• Marathon helpers support Parents Place

• Mitzvah Day at Temple Sinai in Oakland

• S.F. man’s best idea was leaving career to start ‘Good Idea’

• College-bound Californians pick Israeli army service instead

• For Saratoga couple, APJCC is ‘door for being involved’

• New initiative to protect animals in Tel Aviv

• Gay youth group OK’d for volunteer program

• A high-flying mitzvah: Volunteer pilot ‘angel’ shuttles patients to distant treatments

• Internship program offers graduates ‘life’ experience in Israel and India

• Hillel students put new spin on spring break in Florida