Tagged Bob Schwartz

For Tucson newcomer, literature, law, religion, and family are keys to life well lived

Bob Schwartz speaks on Jewish songwriters and American music at the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library in Columbus, Mississippi, July 14, 2011. (Courtesy Bob Schwartz)
April 17, 2020 / Lauren Bookwalter, AJP Intern

Bob Schwartz has been involved with the Jewish community since he was a child growing up in the suburbs of New Jersey. He has been a part of nine congregations in six states and has been active within the Jewish community in Tucson for two years. A former attorney,… Read more »

Probing death penalty, Emanu-El panel divided

(L-R): Bob Schwartz, Rick Unklesbay, Rabbi Batsheva Appel, Michael Gill, Dan Cooper, and Amy Krauss at the Forum on the Death Penalty and Judaism at Temple Emanu-El on Dec. 4. (Debe Campbell/AJP)
December 20, 2019 / Debe Campbell, AJP Assistant Editor

It was a “hung jury” at a free public forum Temple Emanu-El hosted Dec. 4. The forum explored the death penalty in what event organizer, moderator, and former attorney Bob Schwartz called “the start of a much bigger conversation” he hopes will continue. The “Forum on the Death Penalty… Read more »