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Rob Gloster

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

Daniel Gordis speaking at the Osher Marin JCC in San Rafael, Jan. 25
Posted inNews

Daniel Gordis in Marin: ‘Israel was never meant to be a liberal democracy’

by Rob Gloster January 25, 2018February 13, 2018
Bruce Feldstein, Jewish chaplain at Stanford Medical Center, speaking at 'Feast of Jewish Learning'
Posted inNews

Excess of Jewish sexual sinners? Men ponder it at ‘Feast’

by Rob Gloster January 24, 2018January 24, 2018
A Wilderness Torah event (Photo/file)
Posted inTu Bishvat

Tu B’Shevat in the Bay means Tu B’Shevat in the redwoods

by Rob Gloster January 23, 2018March 23, 2018
A 1949 poster printed by Firschein Press in Brooklyn advertises "The 13-year-old wonder kid, Cantor Leibele Zavin." (Photo/Flickr-MagnesMuseum)
Posted inCulture

Vintage posters will take you back to old Jewish Brooklyn

by Rob Gloster January 18, 2018January 24, 2018
Israeli cannabis researcher Yossi Tam in 2018 (Photo/Courtesy Hebrew University)
Posted inBay Area, Israel, Health, News

Meet Hebrew University’s top cannabis researcher

by Rob Gloster January 18, 2018
Helen Farkas, 97, with friends at family at her 97th birthday party.
Posted inMilestones

Holocaust survivor adds to legacy at early 100th birthday in S.F.

by Rob Gloster January 17, 2018January 23, 2018
Bob Garfield in a September, 2017 performance in Philadelphia of his one-man show, "Ruggedly Jewish" (Photo/Michael Gottlieb)
Posted inCulture

In one-man show, NPR’s Bob Garfield asks: To Jew or not to Jew?

by Rob Gloster January 17, 2018March 23, 2018
At Golden State Warriors’  Jewish Heritage Night during Hanukkah, Piedmont resident Arthur Weil, 92, was presented with the Walmart Community Playmaker Award.
Posted inJewish Life

Honors, happenings and comings & goings, Jan. 2017

by Rob Gloster January 11, 2018March 22, 2018
Debbie Coutant stands in a converted shower at Congregation Shir Hadash, which is readying to house an immigrant family under threat of deportation. (Photo/Rob Gloster)
Posted inNews

Los Gatos shul ready to become sanctuary synagogue

by Rob Gloster January 10, 2018March 19, 2018
Rabbi Alissa Wise sits on steps with a shirt that says "Palestinians should be free"
Posted inNews

JVP among 20 groups banned from Israel for BDS support

by Rob Gloster January 8, 2018March 19, 2018

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