cover story

• A new spin on Torah: New learning circles are perking up Jewish study around the Bay Area

news & features

• Bay Area Jewish agencies get word on funding cuts

• Jewish camps struggle with surge in family requests for financial aid

• S.F. researcher’s legacy lives on in new Ugandan health center

• Memoir recalls diplomat’s rise from Bedouin village to San Francisco

• Local alumni recall AJCongress’ regional heyday in S.F.

• Former Peninsula man takes poker prize

• Bone marrow drive in Berkeley seeks match for Jewish woman

• American Jewish Congress retrenches — or is it going out of business?

• AJCongress crash: a tale of money, shifting priorities

• Hillary Clinton asks Jewish support to free U.S. contractor in Cuba

• Fireworks in Pennsylvania Senate race: Who’s more pro-Israel?

• Jewish group’s ad criticizes Glenn Beck

• JVP asks TIAA-CREF to divest from companies profiting from Israel’s occupation

• $10 million fund launched for Holocaust survivors

• Food co-op votes for Israel boycott

• Egypt tries to move Palestinians toward direct talks

• Jabotinsky created plan to kill Hitler, other Nazis

• $1.2 billion suit filed against Al Jazeera

• Israel nabs Hamas cell accused of shooting

• Rocket defense system gets OK

• Sonoma County man part of Berlin Jews’ final trip to city

• Alleged Mossad agent appeals extradition

• Kin of 9/11 victims join AMIA demonstration

• Canine Corps branching out to Sonoma County

• JCC East Bay to hold workshop on climate change

• Free mezuzahs for Marin residents

• Israeli political scientist Asher Arian dies at 72

• Journalist David Twersky, former adviser to Abba Eban, dies at 60

arts

• ‘Half-Remembered Stories’: Youth fill in the blanks in videos, multimedia pieces

• Crude family acts out Israeli-Arab discord on home turf

• Johnny Rotten keeps Tel Aviv gig, despite hate mail

• Expressive art planned for KafeKomen

columns

• Ooh, baby, baby: Jewish inspiration via a newborn sabra

• Your words might seem simple, but they wield much power

• Siman tov, Dan!, Futbol anyone?, Maira and Milton ...

cook

• Rock the dessert tray with goodies made from stone fruit

opinions & letters

• Many need a helping hand to get past Judaism’s ‘barriers’

• Divisive Israeli conversion bill would ‘tear apart the Jewish people’

• letters

• Sad decline of the American Jewish Congress

lifecycles

• b’nai mitzvah

• deaths

supplements

• Teen takes on hunger: Student ensures Midrasha volunteer program will keep on going

• Winning team argues its way to the top in beit din competition

• Jim Joseph Foundation is heavy hitter in Jewish education

• New ‘Shabbat school’ clicks for whole family

• Q & A with new head of school: Seeking ‘impassioned hearts,’ ‘nourished souls’ at Wornick

• On the move: Summer campers run around Brandeis Hillel in S.F.

• Teaching program awarded $5.2 million grant

• Piedmont synagogue opens preschool