cover story

• Mixing it up Why non-Jews choose Jewish day schools

news & features

• Russell Benioff, clothing magnate

• Frederica Maas dies at 111

• Tiny Pacific isle offers Israeli hospitality, diving adventure

• Researcher guides Jews seeking Ukrainian roots

• Hungary’s Jewish establishment is under fire

• German ‘Mein Kampf’ could be illegal

• Popular Israeli TV journalist to make a run for Knesset

• Complex reasons keep prices of imports high in Israel

• Israeli hackers retaliate against Arab websites

• Peres to visit Silicon Valley

• Livni sets Kadima primaries for March

• Another West Bank outpost demolished

• Justices uphold Citizenship Law

• Haredim keep right to delay service

• U.S., Israel delay military exercise

• Second Fogel family killer sentenced

• After attacks on Jews in N.J., extra security — and anxiety

• Network to connect Ramah alumni

• Israeli American is owner of capsized cruise liner

• Brooklyn jewelry store stops selling swastika earrings

• Two studies say up to 6.6 million Jews in U.S.

• Sheriff who arrested Mel Gibson will get day in court

• Scholars: Bashir visit to Libya is ‘unacceptable’

• New York college cleared in bias case

• Cal condemned for award choice

• Huntsman ends campaign

• Citizens fuel effort to restore Coit Tower murals

• Hungry learners to descend on JCC for enlightening ‘feast’

• Coastside community expands its synagogue to Berkeley

• Israel’s top men’s tennis player coming to San Jose

• Mitzvah Day draws hundreds for Palo Alto service projects

• Jewish Learning Institute presents course on business ethics

• Bay Area athletes win Maccabi gold in Brazil

• Berkeley farm to host Tu B’Shevat seder

• Magnes set for open house at new location

• Urban Adamah seeking new fellows

• Faith fellows find kinship in global fight to erase malaria

arts

• New Debbie Friedman song spreads from shul to shul

• ‘Higher’ explores memory, architecture, Jewish identity

• Writer deals a death knell to hope, but keeps Anne Frank alive

• Pssst: Jewish woman takes her dating adventures onto stage

• Spiegelman, Appelfeld among award winners

• Spielberg, Allen garner Golden Globes

• Ex-Buddhist, rabbi to talk about new book

columns

• celebrity jews

• jokes

• Moses defined value of authentic community, ‘our young and our old’

• Parenting for the perplexed: When putting your 6-year-old to bed turns into a nightmare

• Camp letters take me back to the old days — both good and bad

food

• Move over, iceberg lettuce: Flavorful salads find inspiration in north Africa

opinions & letters

• letters

• Finding gold in Brazil, as an athlete and as a Jew

• Recipe for welcoming controversial viewpoints is simple

• New Israel Fund is pro-Israel and pro-peace

• Effort to restore Coit Tower murals deserves support

lifecycles

• death

• b’nai mitzvah

supplements

• Tawonga teens follow food’s journey from its source

• Technion-Cornell partnership seen as strategic, validating

• Camp program brings Russian speakers into Jewish fold

• JFCS educational funds turning dreams into reality

• Berkeley preschool offering ‘green’ Purim care packages

• New preschool opens its doors in Danville

• Readers’ camp memories

• Camp memories: Bug juice, boxing matches, ration stamps and V-J Day

• Camp memories: The oldest living Tawongan

• Camp memories: Maine event: bonding in the Quarantine Bunk

• Camp memories: Woodsy camp leads to career in great outdoors

• Camp memories: Catskills camp and a life of comedy

• Camp memories: Summer of Love visits Camp Lakeland

• Camp memories: Kitchen duties

• Overnight camp creates resilience, success in college

• Camp and vacation rolled into one

• A world of fun

• Wilderness Torah offers new nature program for younger children

• Brandeis kids fight poverty with read-a-thon

• Guess who’s coming to dinner?

• Group to discuss raising resilient teenagers

• Agencies team up on screenings

• Tel Aviv University tells teens: Turn down the volume

• Oakland Hebrew, four other day schools honored

• camp listings