cover story

• Hands-on Holocaust lesson: Investigative work by Oakland students leads to a memorial in Czech town

news & features

• Panel on Jewish activism will go on, but not at BJE

• NFL behemoth now named Shlomo to speak in Palo Alto

• Hamotzi and food trucks — Shabbat goes ‘pop-up’ in Oakland

• Israel in Berkeley? Saul’s new chef is spicing things up

• JFCS swings into action to offset state budget ax

• Then and Now: Jewish mayor’s legacy to city at Sutro Baths

• San Francisco graduate student wins Haas/Koshland Award

• Shalom Bayit to mark anniversary

• Two new Chabad centers open in Bay Area

• Napa shul trying to help man with cancer

• JCHS to cross the bridge for annual gala

• Program offers free kids’ books in Hebrew

• Kol Emeth honoring Adean Golub, Lee Shulman

• Heavy Jewish support for Obama’s stand on gay marriage

• Facebook IPO: Good for the Jews?

• Appeals court: N.Y. kosher law is constitutional

• Cuban official: Ready to negotiate on Alan Gross

• JDC appoints Darrell Friedman interim CEO

• Victim’s family wins $323 million case against Iran, Syria

• Ford Foundation gives ADL $500,000

• Brooklyn DA under fire over haredi sex abuse statistics

• Nakba Day marked with rioting, rock throwing and rally

• Iran executes man convicted of spying for Israel

• Palestinian prisoners end hunger strike

• Israel not invited to NATO summit

• Millions allocated to settlements

• Social protest rallies held across Israel

• Palestinian journalists ban meetings with Israeli counterparts

• Israel will not cut electricity to Gaza

• Israeli Cabinet OKs plan to help Ethiopian immigrants

• Babylonian Talmud now in Arabic

• Website launched to fight BDS

• Seven Krakow synagogues open for one night

• Website of Greek neo-Nazi party suspended

• Satmar Orthodox burn Israeli flag in Belgium

• Britain wants review of insurance sanctions on Iran

• Quebec cancels anti-Semitic comic

• Arno Lustiger, historian and Holocaust survivor

• Vidal Sassoon, 84, celebrity stylist and anti-Semitism fighter

• Progressive Zionist leader Moshe Kagan, 92

arts

• Israeli artist discovers new purpose through photography

• ‘Dictator’ scribes dish on Sacha Baron Cohen’s outrageous new comedy

• ‘Muslim, Jews and a New Song’: Interfaith event blends books, music and personal stories

• Orthodox rapper Y-Love reveals he’s gay

• Actor ‘comes home’ in Jewish series

• ‘Homeland’ filming resumes in Israel

columns

• The Column: Forgotten heroes of a long-ago war

• Faces

• The Space Between: From good to gold in the red-hot center of creativity

• Torah: Let the land rest and give ourselves a chance to breathe

• Our Two Cents: Making a hard call: When to stop paying for kids’ cellphones

• Tygerpen: Gossip and food in one wicked dish

food

• Cook: Get in the swim with tasty salmon

opinions & letters

• Sadly, nothing left to talk about — unless it’s to Hamas

• Anti-Zionist academics make Jew-hating fashionable

• Raising student loan rates could crush American dream

• Another positive step toward full legalization of gay marriage

• Letters

lifecycles

• Births

• B’nai Mitzvah

• Engagements

• Deaths

supplements

• Celebrations: Party on! Girls collect dresses to help others

• Celebrations: Ingenuity goes long way in finding perfect Orthodox wedding gown

• Celebrations: Opera singer finds cantorial work a good fit

• Celebrations: 70 years linked by love

• Celebrations: Walnut Creek girl reads for a good cause: English literacy in Israel

• Celebrations: Bar mitzvahs at last for survivors