cover story

• Beyond the headlines: Local politicos see Israel for themselves

news & features

• As parents’ assets flow in, Goldman heirs deciding which Jewish causes to fund

• Pink-sponge protesters take aim at Israeli documentary

• Putting their mettle to the pedal: Local riders, activists join Hazon on 10-week journey across U.S.

• East Bay federation announces ‘re-visioning’ plans

• ‘Hava Negillah’ routine lets local gymnast rejoice

• Then and Now: Before quake, Jews clustered ‘South of Slot’

• Jewish competitor a favorite in San Jose

• Pride and no prejudice

• Silicon Valley Israelis talk tech with Tel Aviv mayor

• Life on the ‘kibbutz’

• Unique Holocaust study trip departs for overseas

• corrections

• Mofaz grabs Obama’s ear with peace-talks plan, but is Netanyahu listening?

• Child survivor bares harrowing Holocaust journey in D.C. exhibit

• Russell Simmons calls for truce with ADL’s Foxman

• Israeli gets life for Michigan murder

• Madoff associate Merkin agrees to pay $400 million

• George Washington’s Jewish correspondence

• State Department reviews dicey visa

• Virginia Holocaust Museum ousts executive director

• Romney to Jewish donors: ‘I get Israeli briefings’

• Search for Florida philanthropist is called off

• Red Sox trade Youkilis to White Sox

• Israel backs lifting trade sanctions on Russia

• Swastika banners startle beachgoers

• Senate urges moment of silence for Munich 11

• With Muslim Brotherhood’s ascendancy, Mubarak’s legacy is upended

• Putin in Israel, West Bank and Jordan

• Spurred by religious MK, abortion politics arrive in Israel

• Social protests turn violent in Tel Aviv

• New $1 million ‘Jewish Nobel Prize’

• Israel deports South Sudanese

• Fire near Jerusalem under control

• Obama speaks with Egypt’s Morsi

• Australia’s Jews increase by 10 percent

• Slovak coin honors rabbi

• Congress: Hungary must oppose anti-Semitism

• Venezuelan Jews ‘concerned’ about Ahmadinejad visit

• French rabbi receives death threats on Facebook

• BBC: We ‘got it wrong’ on West Bank massacre

• Judith Wallerstein, pioneering expert on divorce, dies at 91

arts

• Palo Alto JCC stages Russian culture retrospective

• Six words to fame? Try it!

• Journalist’s death brings desolation to family in moving novel ‘World Without You’

• Polanski to make film on Dreyfus Affair

• Peninsula JCC seeking art for exhibit

columns

• The Column: Foie gras — goodbye and good riddance to a French delight

• Faces

• Torah: Making sense of red heifer mitzvah for modern Jews

• Our Two Cents: Jewish boyfriend excludes his girl from family events

• Tygerpen: Sea creatures and the ‘F’ word

food

• Cook: Spring a fruity kuchen on summer diners

• Hardly strictly bagels: Two new outfits saddle up, join Bay Area bagel posse

opinions & letters

• Trips to Israel take politicians beyond hearsay and headlines

• Letters

• More than just talk: Jewish drive for ‘Just Farm Bill’

• How ‘gay’? Abuse is no laughing matter — an apology

• Stumbling on Egypt’s road to democracy

lifecycles

• B’nai Mitzvah

• Births

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