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Rob Gloster

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

Jennifer Spitzer
Posted inNews

New Israel Fund scrutinizes travel ban on Israel’s critics

by Rob Gloster September 4, 2018September 5, 2018
The Bay Area Temple Softball league's 2018 championship team from Congregation Kol Shofar
Posted inOur Crowd

Honors, happenings, comings & goings — Aug. 2018

by Rob Gloster August 31, 2018September 4, 2018
Justin Hefter (left) and Mohammed Al Samawi in Corona Heights Park in San Francisco, 2015.
(Photo/Courtesy of Justin Hefter)
Posted inNews

How an S.F. techie helped rescue a Yemeni activist via social media

by Rob Gloster August 28, 2018September 4, 2018
Cantor Linda Hirschhorn performing at Freight & Salvage in Berkeley, Jan. 2016 (Photo/Sandra Morris)
Posted inUncategorized

Cantor now hitting right notes as synagogue’s ‘rebbe’

by Rob Gloster August 27, 2018August 27, 2018
"Otarci" from Leszek Sobocki's "March '68" series, 1968 (Courtesy of Polin Museum)
Posted inHistory

In Warsaw, the chilling tale of 1968 anti-Semitic purges

by Rob Gloster August 24, 2018
Debate for Peace participant Sharehan Alwakily raises her hand at a Debate for Peace workshop at the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv on March 16. (Photo/Courtesy Debate for Peace)
Posted inNews

Debate bridges ethnic divides for teens visiting from Israel

by Rob Gloster August 21, 2018August 21, 2018
Jill Freidenrich cuts the ribbon at the new park and pavilion at the Oshman Family JCC as JCC CEO Zack Bodner (pink shirt, far left) and others look on. (Photo/Rob Gloster)
Posted inNews

Palo Alto JCC celebrates park opening — and completion of campus

by Rob Gloster August 13, 2018
Left to right: Danny Grossman, CEO of S.F.-based Jewish Community Federation; Rabbi James Brandt, recently resigned CEO of Jewish Federation of the East Bay; Jyl Jurman, CEO of Jewish Federation of Silicon Valley
Posted inNews

Are 3 Bay Area Federations headed toward a merger?

by Rob Gloster August 10, 2018August 10, 2018
Rabbi James Brandt
Posted inBay Area

East Bay federation CEO Brandt resigns

by Rob Gloster August 9, 2018August 10, 2018
Artistic rendering of the new park and pavilion at the Oshman Family JCC (Photo/Courtesy OFJCC)
Posted inUncategorized, Bay Area

Palo Alto JCC celebrates new pavilion with a day on the green

by Rob Gloster August 9, 2018

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