cover story

• We the People: JPAC descends upon Sacramento for a day of lobbying

news & features

• Group of Bay Area teens experiences a life-altering march from Auschwitz to Birkenau

• Changes afoot for East Bay federation

• Status update for Facebook’s Jewish founder: married

• BBYO teens go on offensive against bullying

• Beth Am packed for memorial for beloved Palo Alto teen

• S.F. visit gives Israeli councilwoman fuel for her fight

• Inaugural Shultz Fellowship goes to Stanford graduate student

• Then and Now: Window reflects new Promised Land

• Shavuot — the beginning of a beautiful friendship?

• Holocaust monument not stolen, just being restored

• Mishmash makes a splash

• Haredim fill New York Mets’ stadium to protest Internet

• Shavuot: If Passover is the question, Shavuot is the answer

• Joel Siegel’s son honors late father’s wish

• G-8 agrees on oil policies ahead of Iran sanctions

• U.S. gives $70 million for Iron Dome

• House bill: no war with Iran

• BGU, Cincinnati hospital to collaborate

• N.Y. mural celebrates gay rights in Israel

• Dennis Kucinich to retire

• Google donates office space to Cornell-Technion

• Vandals hit Philly synagogue

• HIAS head Gideon Aronoff resigns

• Conn. congregation, member settle suit on non-Jewish burial

• Non-Orthodox movements making inroads in Israel

• Bulgarian course offers pathway to ‘official’ Judaism

• Tom Lantos Research Center dedicated

• ‘Israel Matters’ coming to Santa Cruz

• BJE to fete school educators, students

• Writers defy criticism to attend Jerusalem book festival

• Iranian ‘evidence’ of Israeli spy likely a forgery

• Video shows settlers firing on Palestinians

• IAEA chief: Iran ready to accept nuclear inspection

• Settlement donors to get tax breaks

• Study shows big decline in Orthodox conversions in Israel

• Praying women questioned at Western Wall

• Israel, U.S. agree on immigration fast track

• Palestinian factions agree to speed up reconciliation

• Police break up Jerusalem march

• Bar Refaeli tops Maxim Hot 100

• Yemen rabbi calls for Jewish seat in parliament

• No moment of silence at Olympics

• Israel’s high court reaffirms equal pay

• Jewish leader murdered in Yemen

• Israeli quits Everest quest to rescue Turkish climber

• Guardian ‘not wrong’ to say Tel Aviv is Israel’s capital

• Denmark follows South Africa in allowing special labels for settlement goods

• Polish ag minister won’t ban shechita

• University in South Africa cancels Israeli official’s lecture

• Italy’s Torah Day limited to men

• Tamara Brooks, choral conductor, wife of Theodore Bikel

• The Organic Epicure: Capturing the energy of the local Jewish food scene

arts

• Intergalactic Israeli vocal group comes in peace to planet Earth

• Sephardi roots lead photog to vibrant culture in Turkey

• Yiddish ‘Romeo and Juliet’ bound for controversy

• At the movies, don’t forget about the real-life Jewish ‘Avengers’

columns

• The Column: In a pub in Wales, lifting of voices keeps culture alive

• Torah: Flirty Torah offers chance at intimacy, passion of discovery

• Celebrity Jews

• The Organic Epicure: Capturing the energy of the local Jewish food scene

• Parenting for the Perplexed: Become attached, but not superglued

• Jokes

food

• Old World marries new world inside a Jewish food truck

• The Organic Epicure: Capturing the energy of the local Jewish food scene

opinions & letters

• Anti-Semitism on European campuses: In serene settings, ugly hate festers

• Anti-Semitism on European campuses?: Jewish U.K. university students have a ‘happy time

• Schools issue compels S.F. family to ask: Do we stay or go?

• Letters

• Israel is for all Jews, not just the observant

lifecycles

• Deaths

• B’nai Mitzvah