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Rob Gloster

Rob Gloster z"l was J.'s senior writer from 2016-2019.

Frances Dinkelspiel Green
Posted inNews

Franny Green, Federation’s first female president, 89

by Rob Gloster March 27, 2018April 3, 2018
Linda Riff, interim head of school at Tehiyah Day School
Posted inEducation

With enrollment falling, Tehiyah Day School mulls changes

by Rob Gloster March 23, 2018April 2, 2018
Joanne Pasternack (seen here with Golden State Warrior Kevin Durant), executive director of the Golden State Warriors’ Community Foundation, will be honored by the Jewish Sports Hall of Fame of Northern California in May, 2018.
Posted inOur Crowd

Honors, happenings, comings & goings — March 2018

by Rob Gloster March 22, 2018March 22, 2018
Events like this Friday night service at Urban Adamah in Berkeley draw a lot of Jewish young adults. But how long until most of them are pushed out of the area? (Photo/File)
Posted inNews

Young, Jewish, educated — and barely making it in the Bay Area

by Rob Gloster March 21, 2018March 21, 2018
Rabbi Judy Shanks stands in the center of an unrolled Torah scroll on Simchat Torah at Temple Isaiah of Lafayette,
 (Photo/Courtesy Jen Boxerman)
Posted inNews

Next up for retiring Rabbi Judy Shanks? It’s a mystery (maybe)

by Rob Gloster March 19, 2018March 20, 2018
Erna Salm in the 1940s at the piano at the family home in Flossmoor, near Chicago. (Photo/Courtesy Susan Salm)
Posted inCulture

Piano that survived Holocaust finds its forever home in the North Bay

by Rob Gloster March 16, 2018
Sisters Maya (left) and Sheli Schacker — both serve, but in different two different militaries.
Posted inNews

East Bay sister soldiers serve proudly — under different flags

by Rob Gloster March 11, 2018March 19, 2018
a huge crowd fills the streets, seen from far above
Posted inNews

JCRC event will consider Zionism in light of Federation study

by Rob Gloster March 7, 2018March 7, 2018
Tad Taube in a crowd of thousands at the closing night of concert of the 2007 Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow, of which he is a major funder
Posted inNews

Tad Taube, Poland’s man in S.F., ‘distressed’ by Holocaust speech law

by Rob Gloster March 6, 2018March 19, 2018
A $140 million construction project is underway at the Jewish Home. (Photo/Alain McLaughlin)
Posted inNews

Big changes taking shape at the former Jewish Home of S.F.

by Rob Gloster March 1, 2018February 28, 2018

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