cover story

• Escape to Haiti: Local man recalls how nation saved Jews from Nazis

news & features

• Culinary career just didn’t cut it, so he became a mohel

• Where to pull an all-nighter for Shavuot

• Shavuot marathoners ready to burn the midnight oil

• Professors condemn anti-Semitism at Irvine

• U.C. president, regents decry divest-from-Israel efforts

• Émigrés celebrate Victory Day — 65 times over

• Cyclists raise thousands for Jewish environmental efforts

• Left her heart in S.F.? No, but she’s back, book in hand

• Federations ask young Jews what makes them feel ‘ish’

• Jim Joseph funds education doctoral program at Stanford

• New book details Jews’ august history in the West

• Jewish astronaut set to blast off

• Reform movement backs U.C. professor

• Schindler heir sues over fake list

• Jury selection on for second Rubashkin trial

• Jewish jury is out on Obama’s Supreme Court pick

• Jewish leaders say bill is ‘disastrous’

• Economic group OKs Israeli membership

• Construction spat could turn talks into rubble

• More suspects in Dubai killing identified

• ‘Uncomfortable’times ahead forBritish Jews?

• Haiti Jews still picking up pieces, but Israeli presence strong

arts

• Dairy companies ready for Shavuot rush

• Israeli census reveals tech-savvy nation

• Lebanon reclaims hummus title

• Jewish in-laws who were butt of jokes lose in court

• Sarah Silverman’s ‘Jewiness’ — reluctant and raw

• Geary at Powell: tourists, cable cars … and now Israeli art

columns

• After promising myself I’d get to Israel by 26, I pulled it off — at 27

• We belong in God’s blueprint in unknown but important ways

• jokes

• Shayna punim champs, More ‘Glee’, Briefly noted

cook

• Do-it-yourself yogurt and cheese for Shavout dairy dishes

opinions & letters

• Legitimating bigotry: the legacy of Richard Goldstone

• Indirect peace talks begin, but where’s the sense of urgency?

• letters

• Shavuot is the perfect opportunity for Jewish learning

lifecycles

• anniversary

• b’nai mitzvah

• birth

• deaths