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Ben Sales

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Ben Sales is news editor of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

A county in Utah allows anyone in the world to get a legal marriage certificate. (Photo/JTA-Getty Images)
Posted inNews

Why a county in Utah could play a role in Israel’s judicial crisis

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA March 10, 2023
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to the media in Jerusalem, Aug. 13, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Yonatan Sindel-Flash90)
Posted inNews

In major step, Israeli judicial reform bill passes first parliamentary vote

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA February 20, 2023February 20, 2023
The Pinto Center synagogue in Pico-Robertson. (Photo/Forward-Louis Keene)
Posted inCalifornia

Man with ‘history of animus toward the Jewish community’ arrested for 2 shootings outside L.A. synagogues

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA February 17, 2023February 17, 2023
Singer dances in the center of a group of women, smiling and hosting a Torah scroll up over her head
Posted inNews

Bill to criminalize egalitarian prayer and immodest dress at the Western Wall is shelved after outcry

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA February 9, 2023
Nachman Shai, Israel’s minister of diaspora affairs (center) takes part in a panel discussion at Manhattan's Stephen Wise Free Synagogue with Elliot Cosgrove, senior rabbi at Park Avenue Synagogue (left), and Lori Koffman, director of content and innovation at Park Avenue Synagogue, Dec. 6, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Twitter)
Posted inU.S.

In New York, Israeli minister promises progress on Western Wall’s non-Orthodox prayer space

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA December 9, 2021
Rep. Jamaal Bowman (left) meets with Sally Abed and Alon-Lee Green of Standing Together, a progressive Jewish-Arab grassroots movement, during his visit to Israel and the West Bank as part of a Congressional delegation arranged by J Street, Nov. 8, 2021. (Photo/Twitter)
Posted inNews

Facing protest from left-wing allies, Rep. Jamaal Bowman opens up about his recent trip to Israel

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA November 30, 2021
A view of "Afterlives: Recovering the Lost Stories of Looted Art" at the Jewish Museum in Manhattan, Oct. 10, 2021. (Photo/JTA-New York Jewish Week)
Posted inOpinion

How to talk about Nazi-looted art — and how not to: An exchange

Ben Sales by Andrew Silow-Carroll, Ben Sales and JTA November 1, 2021
Jake Berman, a Jewish former student, speaks at a school board meeting in Southlake, Texas on Oct. 18, 2021. (Screenshot)
Posted inU.S.

Jews in Texas raise concerns after official tells teachers law requires ‘opposing’ views on Holocaust

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA October 20, 2021October 20, 2021
Sally Rooney speaks onstage during a conference in Pasadena on Jan. 17, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Erik Voake-Getty Images for Hulu)
Posted inCulture

Sally Rooney: Israeli publishers can’t put out my new book for now, but Hebrew translation ‘would be an honour’

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA October 12, 2021October 12, 2021
Rabbi Asher Meza, in addition to supporting anti-vaccine activists, has bucked the wider Orthodox community in other ways. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Meza)
Posted inU.S.

A Proud Boys-sympathizing rabbi in Florida has provided 200 vaccine exemption requests

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA October 12, 2021

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