Wednesday, May 16, 2012

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cover story

• Mirror, mirror: Palo Alto JCC event looks at media’s role in negative body image

bay area

• Stem cell donation ‘was meant to be’

• Tireless survivor, 93, tells his story in shul’s new program

• Orthodox expert serves up advice on sex, marriage, intimacy in Berkeley talk

• Lawyer’s talk to explore Moses, pot and self-discovery

• Hardly Strictly Bagels: Oakland about to get a new deli — sort of

• Then and Now: Dynamic duo who paved the feminist path

• Local women’s Torah institute celebrates fourth year

• With honor and sadness

• Community pride

• Unleavened levity

• Jewish Cal player taken 37th in NFL draft

u.s.

• ‘Where the Vilde Chayas Are’ and other Sendak stories

• Alan Gross vows to return if Cuba allows U.S. visit

• American hostage Warren Weinstein pleads for life in video

• Lawmakers ask GAO to look into Palestinian fund

• House subcommittee OKs $1 billion for Israel anti-missile programs

• Bowing out, Gingrich thanks Adelsons

• Israel featured at annual U.S. gay conference

• Azrieli Foundation donates $10 million to Yeshiva U.

• Hadassah lets COO Larry Blum go

• Gertrude Stein nixed from proclamation

• Rabbi Gerald Skolnik new Rabbinical Assembly president

• Flaum settles with immigrant workers

mideast/world

• In surprise move, Likud and Kadima form broad coalition

• Israel’s Supreme Court rejects delay for Ulpana razing

• Shin Bet recommends razing homes of Fogel killers

• Palestinian hunger strikers denied release

• Obama official: Arab Spring ‘works’ for U.S., allies

• Cyprus FM: Israel’s path to alliances is through Cyprus

• Oxfam cites Syria, Iran as major arms embargo violators

• African migrants’ Tel Aviv residences bombed for second time

• Jewish reaction mixed to Hollande victory in France

• Brother of Yitzhak Rabin assassin released from prison

• Thousands of French Jews show up for aliyah fair

• Protestants call for settlement boycott

• British vet calls for end to slaughter without stunning

• Toronto school apologizes to Jews

• Greece’s Jewish community warns of return to fascism

obituaries

• Castro Valley couple, married 59 years, die on same day

arts

• Artist tricks the eye with lifelike paintings

• Arduous journey to freedom — and Israel — profiles Jews of color

• Museum announces Saxe award winners

• More Israel cancellations: Two Irish bands nix June play dates

columns

• Celebrity Jews

• The Column: Celebrate me! But don’t limit it just to Mother’s Day

• Torah: To stay connected, join the Shabbat counterculture

• Parenting for the Perplexed: ‘Mommyitis’: when child prefers one parent over other

• Jokes

cook

• Cook: Teens get schooled in Jewish cooking

opinions & letters

• U.S. moderates must reclaim Israel debate from the fringes

• A damning case against failed — and phony — drug war

• Mom’s gone, but she’s still a ‘favorite’ on my iPhone

• Haredi military service long overdue

• Letters

lifecycles

• B’nai Mitzvah

• Deaths

supplement: business, professional, and real estate

• Keeping it kosher pushes catering duo to ‘be more creative’

• Words of wisdom from an older, wiser achiever: ‘You can do it’

• Technion aims to prepare ultra-Orthodox for workforce

• High-tech pioneer to speak at business leadership breakfast

• Ben-Gurion U. cited for tourism research

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