Sunday, January 13, 2013

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cover story

• After Newtown: Sandy Hook school massacre reignites the gun control debate

bay area

• ‘Big Mitzvah’ message: Today you are a philanthropist

• Stories by Israeli ‘lone soldier’: stranger in familiar land

• New program dedicated to Holocaust education

• JFCS émigré gala set for Jan. 26

• Lehrhaus ready to host its first retreat

u.s.

• Jewish groups join security conference call after Newtown

• Jewish groups softening resistance on Hagel nomination

• U.N. watchdog calls on Cuba to free Gross

• Groups split on FEMA funding for damaged shuls

• Al-Jazeera buys Current TV

• House urges EU to label Hezbollah a terrorist group

mideast/world

• Memo from Abbas: P.A. now officially ‘state of Palestine’

• Israeli candidates hustle to win votes of English speakers

• In Israel, U.S. senator calls for cutting foreign aid

• Can Sharansky fix the prayer problem at Western Wall?

• Snow, heavy flooding hit Israel

• Morsi adviser resigns after calling for return of Egyptian Jews

• Morsi called Jews ‘apes and pigs’ in 2010 interview

• Israel reportedly told Pentagon about Syria poison gas

• Israel to build fence on Syrian border

• Letters from U.S. urge Bibi to not expand settlements

• Center-left parties discuss forming bloc to beat Netanyahu

• Rightist Israeli party fined for using IDF in ad

obituaries

• Rabbi Irwin Groner, ex–Rabbinical Assembly leader, dies at 81

• Polish writer Teresa Toranska dies at 69

arts

• New performance series spotlights ‘emerging Jewish voices’

• Equal justice?: Israeli film traces how military law evolved in territories

• Rare L.A. exhibit tells complicated story of Iranian Jews

columns

• The Column |  Limmud UK: litmus test for a rabbi

• Travel |  Berlin offers tourists compelling history of Jewish life

• Our Two Cents |  I want to date a Jew, but not just any Jewish guy will do

• Torah |  Keeping the faith when the evidence is to the contrary

• Tygerpen |  Buying amulets on the cheap — it’ll cost you

• Faces

food

• Sidelined for years, fresh herbs reclaim place in the kitchen

• Hardly Strictly Bagels |  Brain teaser: Does the Bay Area have an Einstein’s?

opinions & letters

• Do we need greater gun control?: Jewish texts support right to bear arms as ethical obligation

• Do we need greater gun control?: First lady is right person to lead charge on sensible policy

• Elections are about Israel’s survival — in other words, Iran

• Letters

• Let my people vote — no matter where they live

lifecycles

• Deaths

• B’nai Mitzvah

• Births

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