Ben Sales JTA
October 15, 2019, 9:21 pm
America’s 7.5 million Jews are older, whiter and more liberal
Than the country as a whole
By Ben Sales JTA
Ceen Gabbai with friends in one of Saddam Hussein's castles. Photo courtesy of Gabbai
October 10, 2019, 5:26 pm
Here’s what it’s like to grow up as a Jew in Iraq
Iraqi Jew recounts life under Saddam Hussein
By Ben Sales JTA
NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 24: A Hasidic man walks by a police car in a Jewish Orthodox neighborhood in Brooklyn on April 24, 2017 in New York City. According to a new report released by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), anti-Semitic incidents in the U.S. rose by 86 percent in the first three months of the year. The group's audit of anti-Semitic events counted 541 anti-Semitic attacks and threats in the first quarter of the year, a significant increase over the same period last year. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
October 10, 2019, 5:20 pm
Anti-Semitic hate crimes in NYC have risen significantly in 2019
311 hate crimes reported through September
By Ben Sales JTA
The columnist called out the Republican party for ignoring allegations of sexual misconduct against President Trump. (Photo by Olivier Douliery/Pool/Getty Images)
September 25, 2019, 12:00 pm
The Trump-Ukraine Controversy, and the Jews invovled
The phone call that initiated an impeachment investigation
By Ben Sales JTA
A view outside the Yeshivah of Flatbush Joel Braverman High School in Brooklyn, N.Y. Photo courtesy of Google Street View
September 25, 2019, 11:53 am
‘We feel like we failed’
How one Jewish school is processing the arrest of a teacher who preyed on children
By Ben Sales JTA
August 21, 2019, 12:11 pm
Here’s what Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib were going to do
On their trip to Israel and the West Bank
By Ben Sales JTA
July 24, 2019, 11:10 am
Tai chi with tefillin
Inside New York's quirkiest yeshiva
By Ben Sales JTA
July 11, 2019, 9:56 am
Selma’s only synagogue has 4 members and is fighting for its life
120-year-old Temple Mishkan Israel starts GoFundMe page to help with renovations
By Ben Sales JTA
July 11, 2019, 9:47 am
Steve Nasatir steps down from the empire he built
Powerful director of Chicago’s federation,
By Ben Sales JTA
Photo by Ben Sales
June 12, 2019, 11:25 am
Dispatches from an Orthodox anti-vaccine rally
200 gather in Brooklyn for anti-vaccine message
By Ben Sales JTA
Activist Michele Freed, center, and other young professionals protest with HIAS in front of the White House in 2017. (Photo by Katie Jett Walls)
November 9, 2018, 9:59 am
HIAS, immigrant aid group vilified by Pittsburgh gunman, vows not to back down
In vilifying HIAS, Bowers targeted an organization that helped get the American Jewish community on its feet as it burgeoned more than a century ago.
By Ben Sales JTA
Police respond to the site of a mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Oct. 27, 2018. (Photo by Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)
October 28, 2018, 9:37 am
Pittsburgh synagogue shooting shakes the city’s iconic Jewish neighborhood
When a gunman entered Tree of Life Synagogue and killed 11 worshipers Saturday, he also struck at the heart of Pittsburgh’s Jewish community — the neighborhood of Squirrel Hill.
By Ben Sales JTA
A demonstrator participates in a rally in Copley Square to support Students for Fair Admissions lawsuit against Harvard University and to protest Harvard's anti-Asian discrimination in admissions. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff)
October 26, 2018, 2:10 pm
Is Harvard, which once capped the number of Jews, doing the same to Asians?
In 1922, Harvard's president thought the school had too many Jews.
By Ben Sales JTA
Photo by Mendy Hechtman/Flash90
October 25, 2018, 4:16 pm
Conservative rabbis can now attend intermarriages
Conservative rabbis still may not officiate in any way at marriages between a Jew and a non-Jew.
By Ben Sales JTA
Hurricane Michael hit land in Panama City, Fla., on Oct. 10. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
October 18, 2018, 3:32 pm
Rabbi moved to Florida’s Panhandle, Hurricane Michael struck three days later
Chabad husband and wife hit the ground running as emissaries, helping people physically and spiritually.
By Ben Sales JTA
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