cover story

• Rewrite!: BookFest takes literary license to expand offerings

news & features

• Speaking, melodically, on behalf of working stiffs everywhere

• Tradition, doubt, memory a potent mix on Krauss’ table

• Busy S.F. author relishes chance to talk about literary hero

• Unfurling a piece of history: Women’s Torah to embark on eight-day local tour

• Stories of ‘regular’ Jews are meat and potatoes of new Lehrhaus event

• Nuclear confusion: Author to speak in S.F. about Israel, Iran and the bomb

• Reporter-activist relishes Poland’s Jewish revival

• Campaign to counter Israel Apartheid Week set for local campuses

• Athletes sought for ‘Jewish Olympics’

• Lecturer addresses India-Israel ties

• Leadership award to Lynn Bunim

• East Bay funds own bus for Birthright trip

• Erase mystery from Friday night services

• correction

• Proposed tax-rate cuts worry Jewish organizations

• Jewish groups weigh in on contraceptives debate

• U.S. to grant investor visas to Israelis?

• Mormons apologize for proxy baptism of Wiesenthal’s parents

• Poll: Half of U.S. voters favor striking Iran

• Autopsies not required in Washington state

• Do attacks on Israeli diplomats presage new Iran tactic?

• Israeli radio transmits Farsi message of peace to Iran

• Great-grandson of Shoah victims now plays hockey for Germany

• Gun is only way to fight Israel, Hamas head says

• Israel advances bill to halt prostitution

• Israeli relief delegation welcomed in Turkey

• Facebook plea: Don’t hit Iran before Madonna concert

• Couple married 71 years make aliyah

• Migron outpost’s residents agree to evacuation plan

• Tax-exemptions bill for donations to settlements

• Report: Mossad still uses foreign passports

• General strike ends in Israel

• Iron Dome, career officers on chopping block after IDF funding shortfall

• Non-Muslims barred from Temple Mount

• Israeli missile defense test a ‘milestone’

• Israel attacks Gaza sites in response to rocket fire

• Court in India stays deportation of Israeli couple

• Sarkozy calls Israel a ‘miracle’ in electoral pitch to Jews

• Jewish groups oppose change to Polish restitution law

• Son of Shoah survivors to challenge Chavez

• Foundation will aid UK Holocaust survivors

• Palestinian hunger striker denied release

• Israeli Black Hebrews mourn Whitney Houston

• Zalman King, filmmaker and actor

• Roman Halter, 84, artist and Shoah survivor

• Rabbi Gunther Plaut, 99, Reform leader

• Jeffrey Zaslow, 53, journalist and author

arts

• Polish director of ‘In Darkness’ confronts guilt, betrayal

• Different kind of superhero gets her due in graphic novel

• Madonna to launch world tour in Israel?

columns

• Jewish storyline on ‘Downton Abbey’? Stay tuned

• celebrity jews

• We are ‘custodians’ of God’s laws in mind, body, spirit

• jokes

• Parenting for the Perplexed: Swearing toddler might sound better cursing in Yiddish

food

• Kosher cookbook freshens up traditional favorites

opinions & letters

• Thanks, rabbis; now we can feel good about tomatoes at Trader Joe’s

• Maintaining the message of Israel Peace Week

• letters

• Do Iran attacks foreshadow all-out war?

lifecycles

• B’nai Mitzvah

• deaths

supplements

• Israel’s investment in film industry is paying off

• Kosher market fills a niche in Silicon Valley

• Bakery is pie in the sky for former Oaklanders

• Author zings ‘kid marketing’