cover story

• Heart of a champion: Wheelchair doesn’t stop quadriplegic athlete

news & features

• Jewish Milestones scales back as seed funding runs dry

• San Francisco, Richmond to consider resolutions condemning Israel

• Thousands gather in S.F. to celebrate Israel

• PJA recruiting next class of Jeremiah Fellows

• Congregants turn to rabbis in wake of flotilla incident

• New Tehiyah class fills not-ready-for-kindergarten gap

• Pelosi visits JVS to champion job training program

• Flotilla fallout becomes rallying cry for U.S. Jews

• Rabbi’s video interview of Helen Thomas ends icon’s career

• Obama meets with Abbas, pledges new Palestinian aid

• Orthodox boxer loses world title but wins respect

• Long a tourist site, Schindler factory now a museum

• Soap bar not made from human remains

• IDF to open internal flotilla investigation

• Israel eases Gaza blockade on some banned foods

• Video spoof catches fire, fuels Israelis’ PR battle

• Egypt to invalidate weddings to Israelis

• Egypt to keep border open to Gaza

• Known terrorists on flotilla, Israel says

• Student athlete surmounts obstacles on and off the field

• Rabbi, biblical scholar Jacob Milgrom dies at 87

• Helen Thomas complete video

• We Con the World video

• Noted philanthropist goes to bat for intermarriage

arts

• Joan Rivers keeps rolling, with bark and bite intact

• Pixies cancel show, Israel cites pressure

• ‘Jewtopia’ mines familiar cultural stereotypes for laughs

• Taking care of unfinished business: Former Parade editor devotes year to tying up his life’s loose

columns

• Unearthing a connection between ‘Juno’ and the Chicken Heads

• New growth comes out of the ashes of our personal trials

• Service industry, Stop and go, How it all began?

• Tony Awards time, Two favorite pastimes, A reality-show triple

cook

• Strawberries make it that much sweeter

opinions & letters

• Burgeoning abandonment of Jewish state is just sickening

• Israel’s ambassador to U.S. writes op-ed: Why Israel has to prevent arming of Hamas via the sea

• letters

• Local resolutions condemning Israel do not measure up

lifecycles

• b’nai mitzvah

• birth

• deaths

supplements

• When it comes to beverage choices, let the good times flow

• Next stop chuppah? Yeshiva student proposes on New Jersey bus

• Is it ‘racist’ for Jewish college kids to date Jews only?

• Great bridesmaids do it all — and then some

• Presto! Marin’s ‘The Great Jordini’ is first in U.S. to earn a college degree in magic

• Orthodox marriages: happier but not stress free, study reports

• Three trips to Israel: a meeting, a proposal and a wedding