cover story

• Jewish Music Festival — outdoors, free and in San Francisco

news & features

• Magnes partners with U.C. Berkeley to preserve collection

• Jewish Film Festival reveals 2010 lineup — readers begin sounding off

• Ex–Polish president receives Taube award

• National LGBT activists to meet in Berkeley

• j. wins six national awards from Jewish press group

• Protesters slightly delay Israeli ship docking in Oakland

• Mental illness support group meets at Beth Sholom

• Free workshop in San Rafael for job-hunters

• Taube Koret Campus in Palo Alto wins architecture award

• Federation of Silicon Valley to hold annual meeting

• Trying to impact ‘hearts and minds’: Ex–Bay Area rabbi fights on for Palestinians, justice

• Hope behind bars: Rabbi offers female inmates chance at redemption

• Convicted lobbyist Abramoff working in pizza shop

• Lawyers: 27-year sentence for Rubashkin is not kosher

• Israel’s U.N. envoy quits, to head college

• Israel, Vatican closer to resolving issues

• Israel brings Jews from Kyrgyzstan

• Jerusalem revives plan to raze homes

• Turkey suspends bilateral agreements

• Israeli navy probe: Commandos not prepared

• Israeli heat wave sparks fires

• Court overturns some moms’ prison time over school enrollment

• Mixed reaction as Israel allows more items into Gaza

• Viennese Jews face harassment over flotilla incident

• Mumbai Chabad getting new emissaries

• Canada sees big rise in hate crimes

• Bomb explodes near synagogue in Russian town

• Europe wants method of slaughter labeled on meats

• South Africa has World Cup ... but Central Africa has Israelis helping fuel growth

• Biden meets with Chabad group

• U.S. warns citizens to avoid Gaza travel

• Obama, Netanyahu to meet July 8

• A madcap do-over for the bar mitzvah that never was

• Music goes ‘bowling’:  Unique ‘Bowls Project’ gives voice to women of ancient Babylonia

• VIDEO EXCLUSIVE: Board of Supervisors meeting

arts

• Hip-hop’s shooting star is a black Jewish rapper named Drake

• Author denounced for novel sexualizing Anne Frank

• Elton John performs in Israel, tells fans ‘this one’s for you’

• Somewhere over the rainbow: musical, all-lesbian Oz opens July 2 in Berkeley

• ‘Echoes and Fragments’: Ceramic shards reflect a family split apart by Holocaust

columns

• When it comes to Israel, I’m on middle ground — and it feels unsettling

• When the mind is set, we often miss seeing what’s right before us

• Almost more stars than the Oscars, Meet the ‘Grown Ups’

• Keeping it kosher, New premise, The bigger cheese

cook

• Shabbat family favorite is an all-American meal: dinner made on the grill

opinions & letters

• Obama, Netanyahu not on the same page on Iran

• Calling Israel an apartheid state is preposterous

• letters

• Philanthropy saves Magnes for future generations

lifecycles

• b’nai mitzvah

• births

• deaths

supplements

• Tel Aviv aiming to boost its image

• Socially responsible funds can express one’s Jewish values

• Europe financial crisis may adversely impact Israel

• Israeli fashion designer sets up shop in S.F., leaves N.Y. behind

• Crazy for cardamom: Israeli couple build business selling freshly ground spices

• GM looks to Israeli know-how on high-tech future cars