Rob Gloster
By Rob Gloster
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News ‘Miracles’ Survive Amid Ruins Of Fire-Ravaged Jewish Camp
(J. The Jewish News of Northern California via JTA) — Administrators of a Jewish summer camp destroyed by a wildfire in Northern California toured the site for the first time, finding “miracles” amid the devastation. Although most of Camp Newman’s buildings were lost in the North Bay Area wildfires, camp officials said an entrance gate,…
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Fast Forward Berkeley Blocks Pro-Israel Talk By Alan Dershowitz
(JTA) SAN FRANCISCO (J. The Jewish News of Northern California via JTA) — A speech by Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz at the University of California, Berkeley, may be blocked because organizers did not give campus police the required eight-week notice for the event. Dershowitz’s lecture, tentatively titled “The Liberal Case for Israel,” is planned for Oct….
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Breaking News Iconic San Francisco Synagogue No Longer ‘Just’ For LGBT Jews
(JTA) — SAN FRANCISCO (J. The Jewish News of Northern California via JTA) — At Congregation Sha’ar Zahav in San Francisco, Rabbi Mychal Copeland leads Shabbat services with a rainbow tallit around her shoulders. The synagogue newsletter is called “The Jewish Gaily Forward.” But the shul, which since its 1977 founding has been known as…
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Fast Forward She Translates Trump’s Speeches Into Hebrew — Through Clenched Teeth
(J. The Jewish News of Northern California via JTA) — A San Francisco teacher hired to translate into Hebrew President Trump’s speeches in Saudi Arabia and Jerusalem said she’s proud of her work — but not working for him. Merav Rozenblum, a Hebrew teacher at Jewish Community High School of the Bay, is a contract…
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