cover story

• Jolie Acornseed: Educator plants kernels of Jewish wisdom

news & features

• Then and Now: Boxing like gentlemen

• Lawrence Goldberg, tireless booster of many causes, dies at 80

• Event at Magnes to zero in on specific eras, untold stories in 150 years of local Jewish history

• Israeli feminist Anat Hoffman coming to Bay Area for nine talks

• Warriors set Jewish heritage game for Feb. 12

• Conference to address sustainability, energy challenges

• World Reform leader to visit Bay Area

• JCC café shuts doors after 6 years

• correction

• Jewish groups at odds with own policies in fracking debate

• Conference of Presidents leaders visit Pollard

• N.J. synagogue attacker confessed, prosecutor says

• Arkansas federation to honor President Clinton

• Adelson denies involvement in special caucus

• Seattle federation gunman loses appeal

• Environmental group sets greenhouse reduction target

• Orthodox groups protest decision on contraception

• N.Y. center gets $2.5 million gift for new rare books room

• Synagogue solicits Mel Gibson

• With recycling optional, Israel slow to get on bandwagon

• Israeli strike on Iran ‘far off’ … or by year’s end?

• Tel Aviv recognized as creative and gay-friendly

• Demonstrations to press Israel on prostitution

• Netanyahu, Abbas say progress unlikely

• Hamas leader heading to Iran

• Netanyahu retains Likud chair

• Israel to clear land mines

• Tunisian Jews say no to aliyah

• Poll: Most Israeli Jews keep some traditions

• South Sudanese refugees must leave Israel

• Former haredi troops want reserve duty

• Israeli farmers grow black tomatoes

• Ukraine to get first Conservative rabbi

• Tunisian Jews say no to aliyah

• Quebec mayor booed for anti-Israel words

• B’nai B’rith decries German prize to Palestinian pastor

• Brazil remembers Shoah victims

• Austrians condemn right-wing ball

• Austria honors Auschwitz center

arts

• Crowd favorite ‘Delancey’ lives again — on stage

• Israeli documentary takes top Sundance prize

• Israeli native spans globe pursuing passion: coffee culture

• Gimpel’s not so simple, actor says

columns

• Tinkering with Judaism, interfaith dilemmas and being ‘different’

• celebrity jews

• Parenting for the Perplexed: Has your child gone too far in being green?

• jokes

• Torah: Exodus offers hope for personal liberation — ‘a wide, open place’

food

• Trees, fruits and nuts for Tu B’Shevat

opinions & letters

• The benevolence of Hebrew Free Loan

• Compassion, justice and love on Tu B’Shevat

• Israel must not let women’s rights be trampled

• Black-Jewish history not as tidy as often presented

• letters

lifecycles

• births

• anniversaries

• b’nai mitzvah

• deaths