news & features

• Online learning, volunteerism help day schools cut costs

• Passover shuts restaurants down — for a week

• With haggadah art, rabbi helps forge deeper connections with Passover

• Jewish softball league in East Bay ready to ‘play ball!’

• Unable to find a perfect prayerbook, retired rabbi writes his own

• Pro-Israel side counters S.F. ‘Global’ supporters

• A Jewish hospital ‘without regard to race or creed’

• Grant will help Kevah develop teachers

• Social justice group gets new name

• Getting a leg up on Israel trip

• S.F. Hillel hopes for a ‘full house’ at its first poker tourney

• Wexner receives 5-year grant from Jim Joseph

• Survey: Jewish voters back Obama

• Wolpe tops Newsweek’s list of top U.S. rabbis

• N.J. governor welcomed in Israel

• Jewish organizations hold National Hunger Seder for Congress

• Palestinian award for Helen Thomas

• Rubashkin appeals to Supreme Court

• Texas Jewish school not welcome

• Obama cites Lubavitcher rebbe in proclamation

• Story of Titanic’s kosher food service lost with the ship

• IDF gears up for one of its biggest operations: Passover

• 10 years later, Passover hotel victims lean on each other

• Jewish settlers evicted from Hebron home

• Report: Iranian terror group readying Turkey attacks

• Land Day protests lead to arrests

• Barghouti lands in solitary over Land Day letter

• Palestinian woman deported after hunger strike

• No probe on Gaza war crimes because Palestine not a state

• Tel Aviv protest decries higher cost of living

• Abbas: Palestinian unity deal ‘frozen’

• Malaysia calls Jews the ‘main enemy’

• Islamic militants planned to kidnap Jewish judge

• British artists want Habima banned

• Nobel winner Grass calls Israel a threat to world peace

• Retail chain in Norway halts Ahava sales

• clarification

arts

• Graphic novel embraces issue of women’s choice through eyes of girls in turn-of-century New York

• ‘Hunger Games’ teen hero: a modern-day Queen Esther?

• Book recounts wartime story of Dutch pair who saved Jews

• Amid mainstream success, Regina Spektor stays true to Jewish roots

• Madonna adds a ‘Concert for Peace’ in Israel

• Vocolot to perform at interfaith concert

columns

• The Column: Making ‘God’s food’: on the trail of the Passover matzah

• Torah: This year, embrace the seder and make the story your own

• Our Two Cents: My parents don’t dote on my daughter

• Tygerpen: Guess who’s not coming to seder?

• faces

food

• To spice up seder, mix old with new

opinions & letters

• Is our cultural imperative to eat making our kids fatter?

• Why just two states? J Street should seek 22-state solution

• letters

• OK, everybody breathe.

lifecycles

• deaths

• births

• b’nai mitzvah

supplements

• Passover: Only four questions? That’s just the beginning

• Passover: In Moroccan tradition, special foods to mark holiday

• Passover: Storytelling lends even more magic to the Exodus saga

• Passover: Haroset conserves in jar - Seder Sweetness hits store shelves after farmers market success

• Passover: Ethiopians in Israel celebrate first seder

• Passover: An opportunity to sample Mimouna