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Ben Sales

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Ben Sales is news editor of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

eight men in military uniform carry a casket draped in an American flag
Posted inAnalysis

‘Jew’ isn’t a slur. So why do so many people avoid saying it?

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA October 13, 2020October 13, 2020
Mark Zuckerberg at the Breakthrough Prize awards ceremony at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Nov. 3, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Josh Edelson-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inNews

Facebook will now ban Holocaust denial, in a major shift

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA October 12, 2020October 22, 2020
Armed gun rights protesters, led by a member of the far-right Boogaloo boys, march in Richmond, Virginia, Aug. 18, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Chad Martin/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Posted inPolitics

Officials fear violence on Election Day. Some worry it could target Jews.

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA October 9, 2020
A Trump supporter displays a pro-QAnon poster at a 2018 rally in Florida. (Photo/JTA-Thomas O'Neill-NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Posted inTech

Facebook says it will now ban all pages supporting QAnon, the antisemitic conspiracy theory

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA October 7, 2020
Neo-Nazis and white supremacists encircle counterprotesters at the base of a statue of Thomas Jefferson after marching through the University of Virginia campus with torches in Charlottesville, Aug. 11, 2017. (Photo/JTA-Shay Horse-NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

Homeland Security report calls white supremacists the ‘most persistent and lethal’ threat in the US

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA October 6, 2020
A screenshot from a Lost Tribe Esports tournament where participants played Rocket League, a game in which flying cars play soccer. (Screenshot)
Posted inNews

Jewish and into video games? There’s an esports league for that.

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA October 6, 2020October 6, 2020
Heather Segal, a Canadian immigration lawyer, says she has gotten far more inquiries from U.S. citizens this year than ever before, and most of them have come from Jews. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Segal)
Posted inNews

‘I’m not going to get stuck’: Ahead of the election, growing numbers of U.S. Jews consider leaving

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA October 2, 2020October 2, 2020
Members of the Proud Boys group wait to get into vehicles after marching across the Hawthorne Bridge in Portland, Oregon, Aug. 17, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Alex Milan Tracy-Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

Are the Proud Boys anti-Semitic? Your primer on the far-right group Trump told to ‘stand back and stand by’

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA September 30, 2020October 1, 2020
At Camp Che-Ne-Wah in the Adirondacks, future Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was sometimes called the camp's "junior rabbi." (Photo/heyalma.com)
Posted inU.S.

From camp ‘rabbi’ to pursuing justice: How Judaism animated Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s life

Ben Sales by Ben Sales September 22, 2020September 22, 2020
A group of Germans who follow the QAnon conspiracy theory protest in Berlin, Aug. 29, 2020, the same day that a group of German extremists inspired by QAnon stormed the country's parliament. (Photo/JTA-Sean Gallup-Getty Images)
Posted inNews

QAnon is an old form of antisemitism in a new package, experts say

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA September 18, 2020

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