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Ben Sales

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Ben Sales is news editor of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

Judah P. Benjamin, Secretary of State of the Confederacy, 1861-1865 (1955). (Photo/JTA-The Print Collector-Getty Images)
Posted inNews

Why Burlingame synagogue covered up name of Confederate Jewish official in window

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA June 18, 2020June 19, 2020
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during the F8 Facebook Developers conference on May 1 in San Jose. (Photo/JTA-Getty Images-Justin Sullivan)
Posted inTech

Protesting hate speech, ADL and NAACP call on companies to stop running Facebook ads in July

Ben Sales by Ben Sales June 17, 2020
New York police officers stand guard at the door of the Union Temple of Brooklyn after it was vandalized with graffiti, Nov. 2, 2018. (Photo/JTA-Kena Betancur-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

Calls to defund police put some Jewish institutions in a tough position

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA June 15, 2020
Right-wing conspiracy theorists allege that George Soros, seen in June 2019, is backing antifa, which President Trump has blamed for rioting without citing evidence. (Photo/JTA-Georg Hochmuth-AFP-Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

There are now 500,000 negative tweets about George Soros every day. Many claim he’s funding George Floyd protests.

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA June 4, 2020June 4, 2020
Chabad of Sherman Oaks has been fending off rumors about its security barriers. (Screenshot/Chabad of Sherman Oaks Facebook)
Posted inCalifornia

White House amplifies rumor that LA Chabad is fueling ‘antifa and professional anarchists’

Philissa CramerBen Sales by Philissa Cramer, Ben Sales and JTA June 4, 2020
One challenge in Expedition Nai, a global virtual color war for Jewish young adults, was to take a piece of old clothing and turn it into something cool. (Screenshot from YouTube)
Posted inU.S.

A global virtual color war for Jewish millennials could be a model for summer camp in the Covid-19 era

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA May 22, 2020
Campers playing on the water at Camp Modin. The camp is perhaps the first Jewish camp in the country to announce, in detail, how it plans to open. (Photo/Courtesy Camp Modin)
Posted inU.S.

A Jewish camp in Maine is actually opening. Here’s how it plans to keep Covid-19 away.

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA May 18, 2020
The main entrance of the Staenberg-Loup Jewish Community Center in Denver, photographed in 2018. JCCs are among the establishment institutions prioritized by a $91 million Jewish coronavirus relief fund. (Photo/JTA-Hyoung Chang-The Denver Post via Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

The biggest Jewish coronavirus relief fund will soon start giving out loans

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA May 13, 2020
Mourners leave mementos across the street from the Chabad Community Center in Poway, April 29, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Gabrielle Birkner)
Posted inUncategorized

California ranks third in number of anti-Semitic incidents in 2019

Ben Sales by Gabriel Greschler and Ben Sales May 12, 2020May 13, 2020
Camp Ramah in the Rockies (Photo/Courtesy Ramah)
Posted inBay Area, U.S., News

Will there be camp this summer? Three Jewish camps will decide this week, and likely delay.

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA April 28, 2020April 28, 2020

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