cover story

• Cancer calling?: East Bay couple on a mission to warn of cell phone risks

news & features

• Jewish organizations praise Kagan’s confirmation

• Rubashkin judge accused of massive conflict of interest

• Gay Jews have a ‘home in Jewish life,’ Orthodox rabbis say

• Panel hashes out film’s role in getting all sides to talk

• Dynamic teens rewarded for extraordinary work

• Vandals hit billboards in S.F. with anti-Israel invective

• Money-management seminars at JCCSF

• S.F. federation revamps website

• ADL takes heat for opposing Islamic center near ground zero

• Intermarriage a hot topic after Chelsea Clinton’s wedding

• ADL downgrades swastika as Jewish hate symbol

• Chabad synagogue vandalized in SoCal

• A new name for Conservative Judaism?

• Israel’s cooperation on U.N. flotilla inquiry signals tactical shift

• Cabinet votes to deport some migrant workers’ children

• Direct peace talks could start mid-August

• Israel is No. 8, U.S. 14th among happiest countries

• Banker’s kin sue Hungary for return of art

• 90-year-old charged in Nazi-era murders

• Yad Vashem to honor late Aboriginal elder

• Neo-Nazi hackers hit Buchenwald website

• Prop 8 reversal riles, pleases Jewish groups

• Stern named AJC associate general counsel

• Sendak gives $1 million to N.Y. Jewish agency

• Hebrew charter school to open in N.J.

arts

• ‘New Beginnings’: Spiritual awakening turns dabbler into working artist

• Visiting Israeli performance artists have no qualms living in glass house

• Israeli Arab writer gets SFJFF prize for his ‘Labor’ of love

• Author takes philosophical approach to Jewish thinking

• James Franco experiments with notions of celebrity on film, stage and soap opera

• Jewish creator reflects on provocative show’s immigrant roots

columns

• After four great years, it’s time to say ‘shalom’ to j. — and journalism

• Chew, swallow, savor: Take time to enjoy the gift of good food

• Camels and ostriches and crocodiles, oh my!

cook

• Having chicken again? Mix it up with flavors from around the world

opinions & letters

• Against the odds, Judaism is being replanted in Poland

• Let 9/11 families decide mosque fate near ground zero

• letters

• Jewish community should support mosque near World Trade Center

lifecycles

• deaths

• b’nai mitzvah

supplements

• Berkeley synagogue cooks up a new after-school approach

• Humanistic Judaism: East Bay congregation for atheist, secular Jews has been slow to catch on

• Black, proud and Jewish: Synagogue founded 50 years ago gets its first Torah

• Synagogue synergy: North Peninsula consortium going strong in fourth year

• Mount Sinai of concrete?: Philadelphia suburb is home to only synagogue designed by Frank Lloyd Wrig

• Are you a ‘freemium’ or premium synagogue user?

• Classical Reform society is keeping it real — real Reform