cover story

• Ellis Island of the West: From 1910 to 1940, many Jews’ gateway to U.S. was Angel Island

news & features

• ADL audit shows Anti-Semitic acts at ‘troubling’ level, on rise in California

• With stroke of a pen, Bay Area has its first full-time scribe

• JCC Maccabi ArtsFest: It’s Maccabi for Mozarts

• Brandeis Hillel kids’ club sets enterprising goal to repair world

• Students can now major in Jewish studies at U.C. Santa Cruz

• Financial workshops set for JCCSF

• Local athletes on way to JCC Maccabi Games

• Discovery of $7 million fraud rocks agency that helps pay out Holocaust claims

• Washington-area JCC sued for discrimination

• Military surveyed views on Jews in ’40s

• PLO’s D.C. office will fly Palestinian flag

• Dems in Congress get talking points to show Israel support

• Netanyahu, Abdullah discuss peace in region

• Israel Museum reopens in Jerusalem

• Ritz-Carlton to open first kosher hotel

• President of Jewish community flees Egypt

• South African ambassador back in Israel

• P.A. offers Irish activists honorary citizenship

• British P.M. calls Gaza a ‘prison camp’

• Arab posing as Jew charged with rape in consensual sex

• Israel lifts Turkey travel warning

• Ex-U.N. prosecutor probes flotilla boarding

• Americans organizing ship for new Gaza flotilla

• Netanyahu rejects extending settlement freeze

• Conversion bill delayed six months

• Swedish synagogue warned of bomb

• Palestinian bishop gets top Lutheran post

• New Zealand Jews sue to halt shechita ban

• 80 countries OK pact to fight anti-Semitism

• North Korea fined over 1972 Israel attack

• Torah rescue group agrees to verify scrolls’ origins

• NBA star Amar’e Stoudamire Jewish? Well, he’s visiting Israel to explore his Judaism

• Daniel Schorr, crusading journalist, never forgot his Jewish roots

• Netanyahu brokers six-month freeze on conversion bill

arts

• Marin JCC to host zydeco concert

• Rabbi Lerner to get Forgiveness Award

• Tel Aviv art house finds home in S.F.

• Shiva delivers for a quirky family in new novel

• Strong Israel undercurrent runs through ‘Wartime’

• Oliver Stone apologizes for ‘Jewish domination’ remarks

columns

• Between the dog parties and e-mail propositions, it’s been a fun two years

• School of hard lox, Jewish primer, A great mystery ...

• Big-screen notes, Over on cable

• When the stakes are high, the best strategy may be to give things a rest

cook

• Hot diggity — it’s the perfect time of year for a frankfurter

opinions & letters

• J Street founder: Those with narrow definitions of ‘pro-Israel’ are the caustic elements

• Alan Dershowitz: J Street is continuing to destroy its credibility by lying

• letters

• ADL report reveals data we need to do something about

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