cover story

• Mountain high: Wilderness Torah celebrates Shavuot in the hills of Oakland

news & features

• Thousands ready to party at annual celebration of Israel

• ‘Jewish girl with a punch’ creates educational toys with a pouch

• Federation’s pre-festival plan: awards and one-liners

• Local teen foundations raise big money for good causes

• Brisk action on A’s Jewish heritage tickets

• USY teens lighting the way

• No Palestinian cultural day for Alameda County

• Correction

• Conservative rabbis OK rituals for same-sex weddings

• Obama answers ‘kishkes’ questions from Jewish leaders

• Obama extends Israel embassy waiver

• Feinstein accepts J Street endorsement

• Poll shows strong Jewish support for labor, higher taxes

• Parents denied custody in Nazi-naming case

• New York’s annual Israel parade draws big crowds

• Boycott of Israel dooms college anthology

• Raul Castro’s daughter calls for dual prisoner releases

• Ethiopians, taken for migrant workers, feel racism’s sting

• German magazine says Israel equipping subs with nukes

• Report: U.S., Israel developed Stuxnet virus

• Contested Ulpana buildings to be moved

• Palestinian assailant stabs Israeli border guard

• Illegal migrants may be detained up to 3 years

• Israeli security inspects email of some Arab visitors

• Thousands in Istanbul hold anti-Israel rally

• Fire at apartment of Eritrean migrants called arson

• Toulouse massacre encouraged more attacks, report says

• German Jewish leaders meet in Hamburg as neo-Nazis march

• Jewish celebration in Rome canceled to honor quake victims

• Australian lawmakers urge moment of silence at Olympics

• European governments urged to protect Jewish cemeteries

• New Jewish learning center in Berlin

• Biden’s daughter marries Jewish doctor

• Kathi Kamen Goldmark, 63, creative whirlwind and country-rock musician

• Alex Joffe, 55, helped spearhead Palo Alto Jewish campus

arts

• Sixty years of Mad-ness: Retrospective in S.F. affirms magazine was fueled by boatload of Jewish wit

• Lafayette author’s action-packed novel reimagines Jerusalem

columns

• The Column: Us against world - No wonder I can’t find peace in Israel

• Celebrity Jews

• Torah: Who moved my Torah passage? Rethinking ‘perfect’

• Parenting for the Perplexed: Creating bedtime routines helps baby (and you) sleep

• Jokes

food

• Cook: Pucker up - Tart, sweet grapefruit is a citrus wonder

• Hardly Strictly Bagels: Hundreds of Bay Area food trucks — now one is Jewish

opinions & letters

• Israel at 64 still a young, vibrant nation looking forward

• Comfortable, finally, with being a ‘half-shiksa’ beauty

• Jewish values must guide moral response to Israel’s migrant issue

• Letters

• Putting teens’ hands on the purse strings in the right way

lifecycles

• B’nai Mitzvah

• Births

• Deaths

supplements

• Two local grads from different worlds come out on top

• A financially and morally sustainable model for day school tuition

• New schools in Israel bridge old religious-secular divide

• Job-seeking U.S. college grads find opportunity in Israel