news & features

• Netanyahu, Abbas each give a little on first day of talks — and will talk again in mid-September

• Happy Rosh Hashanah

• ‘Tsunami’ of need: With savings gone, out-of-work Jews turn to JFCS food pantries

• New Conservative prayerbook offers accessibility, inspiration

• S.F. teen dies in Nepal plane crash

• Local Bronfman teens challenged, awed on Israel sojourn

• S.F. Food Bank launching drive

• Bay Area’s newest mohels bring personal style to the table

• JCCSF hosting new year celebration

• 5 local rabbis sign letter supporting J Street efforts

• Grand reopening

• Labor Day event for teens kicks off BBYO activities

• Free Alzheimer’s activity training at Contra Costa JCC

• Wiesel to teach at Chapman University

• French railroad papers open for inspection

• Nuremberg Laws moved to U.S. Archives

• Senate candidate Fiorina to travel to Israel

• Jewish fans cheer on Giants at annual heritage night

• GOP leader comes out of closet

• Drive launched for Israeli goods

• Z Street says IRS playing politics

• Chabad reveals how it keeps winning online contests

• Israeli strikers play hardball, wreak diplomatic havoc

• Arab teens indicted in   beating death of American

• Spiritual leader of Shas calls for ‘plague’ on Abbas

• U.S. backing biweekly Netanyahu-Abbas summits

• Israeli soldiers charged in picture-taking flap

• Barak: Israel willing to divide Jerusalem in trade for peace

• Shofar is earthly and primal

• Germany’s central bank rejects racist comments

• School apologizes for Hitler costume

• German yeshiva ordains two rabbis

• Glasgow stores boycott Israeli goods

• Glasgow stores boycott Israeli goods

• Nazi medical devices in Auschwitz museum

• Mumbai to get new Chabad House

• Internet extremism growing in Germany

• Why are holiday tickets so pricey?

• To be (in shul) or not to be:  the second-day question

• Seeking forgiveness with help from professional apologists

• New food ideas add novelty to apples-and-honey custom

• Worldly recipes served with a slice of Jewish history

• IPhone app tells you where to go for kosher products

• Simple stories will get kids jazzed for High Holy Days

• Settlers’ group declares freeze over

• Hamas: 150 members arrested in wake of shooting

• Obama, Netanyahu denounce killings as peace talks open in Washington

• Shooting victims mourned as attack on four Israelis is condemned

• San Rafael mom dies at 45

• Jews give Obama above-average approval rating

arts

• Israeli institutions facing new boycotts — by Israelis

• What America’s favorite pastime has meant to the Jews

• Octopretzel embraces the whimsy of Jewish kids’ music

• Historic Sherith Israel part of architectural calendar

• Reggae artist, a Bay Area native, gets powered up for S.F. festival

• Art in motion: Sculptor to make piece of art as audience watches

columns

• Taking time to help those in need makes sweet start to the year

• Don’t just stand there waiting for instructions — put out your hand

• Grampy’s party, News from Hillel, L.A. without cars?

cook

• Fresh and local holiday fish

• Honey lends sweetness to meats and veggies, not just apples and cake

opinions & letters

• Looking back on a year full of challenges

• letters

• A nationwide Mitzvah Day could heal rifts while healing the world

• Opening for peace may not last — it’s time to make our voices heard

lifecycles

• deaths

• b’nai mitzvah