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Ben Harris is a JTA correspondent.

Waskow arrested at a protest
Posted inReligion

Arthur Waskow, rabbi who brought spirituality to progressive activism, dies at 92

by Ben Harris October 20, 2025October 21, 2025

(JTA) — Rabbi Arthur Waskow, an activist and author of more than two dozen books that refracted progressive causes like civil rights, economic injustice and, most pressingly in his last […]

Former United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger visiting Fox Business Network at FOX Studios, Dec. 18, 2015, in New York City. (Photo/JTA-John Lamparski-Getty Images)
Posted inNews

Henry Kissinger, polarizing first Jewish secretary of state, dies at 100

by Ben Harris November 30, 2023
Author and Rabbi Harold Kushner is pictured with his best-selling book, "When Bad Things Happen to Good People," in 2001. (Photo/JTA-Ron Bull-Toronto Star via Getty Images)
Posted inObituaries

Rabbi Harold Kushner, author of ‘When Bad Things Happen to Good People,’ dies at 88

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer, Ben Harris and JTA May 1, 2023May 1, 2023
Rabbi Shira Stutman discusses circumcision during a class for converts to Judaism at the Sixth and I Synagogue in Washington, DC on December 5, 2013.. (Photo/JTA-Linda Davidson-The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Posted inReligion

These Jews want to normalize not circumcising — and they want synagogues to help

by Ben Harris and JTA October 8, 2021December 7, 2021
Images of Andres Levine, Ilan Naibryf and Deborah Berezdivin, three of the Jewish victims of the Surfside building collapse, among other photographs of those missing posted at a makeshift memorial on the building site in Surfside, Florida, June 26, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Andrea Sarcos-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

These are the Jewish victims of the Surfside building collapse

Shira Hanau by Ben Harris, Shira Hanau and JTA July 2, 2021July 2, 2021
Shoshana Mackay lives on a Jewish farm in North Carolina. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Mackay)
Posted inU.S.

Transgender Jews are finding safe haven in an unexpected place: the farm

by Ben Harris and JTA February 24, 2021March 1, 2021
Flory Jagoda at the Richmond Folk Festival in 2012. (Screenshot from YouTube)
Posted inMusic

Flory Jagoda, champion of Sephardic music, dies at 97

by Ben Harris and JTA February 2, 2021February 3, 2021
Rick Doblin is a leading advocate for the use of MDMA in psychotherapy. A clinical trial he championed produced favorable results this year. (Photo/JTA-Ben Harris; Illustration/JTA-Grace Yagel)
Posted inNews

Meet Rick Doblin, the Jewish psychedelics advocate working to turn a club drug into legal medicine

by Ben Harris and JTA November 24, 2020November 24, 2020
a seated smiling old man with a beard and colorful kippah
Posted inU.S., Religion, Jewish Life, News

Rabbi Art Green (still) believes Hasidic ideas are key to a vibrant modern Judaism

by Ben Harris and JTA October 19, 2020October 19, 2020
a man in his 40s stands smiling in front of a Zoom sign
Posted inRosh Hashanah

How one Zoom employee saved High Holidays streaming for 300 synagogues

by Ben Harris and JTA September 18, 2020

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