cover story

• Exit, stage left: Does TJT’s demise signal the end of Jewish theater in the Bay Area?

news & features

• First aid on the way for ‘second stage’ Jewish startups?

• Broadcaster Barry Tompkins to join NorCal Jewish Sports Hall of Fame

• From Iran, to adversity in U.S., to JVS success story

• Training for Hazon ride turns mom into a spokes person

• Panelist’s forecast on radical Islam: no chance of wane

• Big celebrations for Yom HaAtzmaut (check out the big, spinning Star of David at Cal)

• Then and Now: Fleishhacker was world’s biggest pool

• Local agency helping Israel turn mines into vines

• UpStart welcomes two new ventures

• Teen volunteers fan out across area for J-Serve

• JCF begins push to increase access to Jewish life

• JPAC plans lobbying day in Sacramento

• Reutlinger offering new luncheon for seniors

• Obama’s Jewish support rises decidedly, AJC poll finds

• Obama releases $147 million in aid to Palestinians

• ‘Ordaining’ cantors recognizes elevated role in modern life

• May is Jewish Heritage Month

• Students stage walkout protest at Oren speech

• Teacher arrested after Holocaust lesson goes awry

• MLB suspends Tigers player for anti-Semitic tirade

• N.Y. volunteers snag Guinness record

• Is Israel bluffing on Iran, or already committed to war?

• Israeli judo champ takes European gold

• Livni resigns, early elections on horizon

• Israel blasts U.N. list of human rights violators

• Israeli reporter suspended after false story on Disney abduction

• Temporary housing approved for Migron outpost residents

• Israel constructing security wall on Lebanese border

• Maccabi Haifa hires ex-Syracuse coach accused of sexual abuse

• Palestinian hunger strikers moved to Israeli hospital

• Egyptian presidential candidate: Camp David accords ‘dead’

• Peace studies expert spouts anti-Semitism

• Group suing Google for Jewish searches

• British union boots Israeli lecturer

• French Jewish leader warns of Hollande presidency

• Forward-looking man of action Stanley Herzstein dies at 91

• Benzion Netanyahu, father of Israel’s PM, scholar and Zionist thinker, dies at 102

• ‘Orthodox Dr. Ruth’ to speak in Berkeley

arts

• Artists’ cups runneth over — with ideas about excess

• Has wax museum gone too far with Anne Frank figure?

• Off the Shelf: Confused identities make for compelling narratives

• Synagogue hosts Israeli art, community events

• Bedouin teens break barriers with Molière play

• Israeli singer Noa ‘shocked’ by Facebook boycott call

columns

• Coaching younger kids puts J-Fizzle teens in the win column

• Faces

• Torah: Following path from sexuality to holiness

• Our Two Cents: Gift conundrum: big-screen TV vs. candlesticks

• Tygerpen: Sunday school’s life lessons

lit

• Off the Shelf: Confused identities make for compelling narratives

food

• Perfect time to make Mom’s life a picnic

opinions & letters

• letters

• As curtain falls on TJT, we feel the loss

• Shiny Las Vegas offers mirror on social justice efforts

• In ‘crazybusy’ era of always being in touch, are we losing touch?

• Orthodox image takes a beating in lifetime of ferry tales

lifecycles

• B’nai Mitzvah

• Deaths

supplements

• Summer specialty camps take off as kids ‘hone their skills’

• A magical place that we call home

• Israel is their classroom — literally

• Are more Jewish specialty camps on the horizon?

• Storytelling for young kids offered at BJE Library

• Camp Listings

• Camperships ease affordability anxiety

• Archery gets a boost from ‘Hunger Games’