cover story

• Offbeat celebrations pepper the Purim landscape

news & features

• A story ‘not everybody knows’: Work begins on doc explaining Jews’ impact on local history

• From ‘chillaxing’ to rockets, teens get earful on Israel

• New Hillel director settling into a groove in Santa Cruz

• Two Bay Area members of Congress tour Israel, West Bank with J Street

• Hecklers mar Israelis’ appearance at U.C. Davis

• Group gathers, prays at Israeli consulate

• Jewish couple’s lawsuit dismissed

• Bay Area’s only full-time Israel Studies professor gives his first lecture

• Workshop on caring for aging parents

• Tikkun wants no U.S. support for strike

• Polish JCC benefits from local foundations

• At AIPAC conference, expect Iran talk on both sides of door

• Santorum’s views split Jewish GOPers, delight Democrats

• Raul Castro tells senators: Gross ‘was no spy’

• Indiana passes bill cutting off firms that deal with Iran

• Where bargain-hunting links Israelis, Palestinians

• Israel still helping Japan one year after tsunami

• Netanyahu rips Abbas over Al Aksa destruction claims

• Israel tells U.S.: No warning on Iran

• Former Olmert aide convicted on corruption charges

• Birthright has added $535 million to Israel’s economy

• Then and Now: A vision that spanned the Golden Gate strait

arts

• Around the world in Jewish films: 17th annual East Bay festival opens next weekend

• Israeli filmgoers flock to see Oscar-winning movie from Iran

• Films at East Bay festival pack a punch: Three picks offer perspectives on Muslim-Jewish relations

• Musical prodigies play for keeps in wartime ‘Wunderkinder’

• ‘Survivor cookbook’ honors victims, helps those suffering today

• Oakland writer’s thriller pursues secrets of Scripture

• Another performer cancels on Israel

• Israel planning new performing arts center

columns

• A radical approach to Jewish learning — I’m hooked

• celebrity jews

• Torah: Two generations connect in light of eternal memory

• Parenting for the Perlexed: How to deal with scary parts of the Purim story

• jokes

food

• A royal tribute to flavors of Purim

opinions & letters

• Now playing on a campus near you: ignorance, lack of regard for facts

• Spotlighting human rights inequities is not anti-Semitic

• Freedom of speech, with respect

• letters

lifecycles

• b’nai mitzvah

• deaths