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Ben Sales

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Ben Sales is news editor of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

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Trump can’t deport Columbia undergraduate pro-Palestinian activist, judge rules

Ben Sales by Ben Sales March 26, 2025March 26, 2025
Michal Cotler-Wunsh, then a member of Knesset, addresses the Knesset in 2020. (Adina Wolman/Knesset Archive via Wikimedia CC BY-SA 4.0)
Posted inIsrael

Israel’s own antisemitism envoy says she wasn’t consulted ahead of the government’s controversial antisemitism conference

Ben Sales by Ben Sales March 21, 2025March 21, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers remarks following a meeting with U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson at the U.S. Capitol, Feb. 7, 2025. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)
Posted inPolitics

Netanyahu: ‘Leftist Deep State’ in U.S. and Israel is working to ‘thwart the people’s will’

Ben Sales by Ben Sales March 19, 2025March 19, 2025
USF basketball coach Todd Golden at a game in 2019. (Chris Leung/USF Dons)
Posted inUncategorized

Jewish coaches lead 4 of 8 top seeds in March Madness — and two have Bay Area connections

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and J. Staff March 17, 2025March 18, 2025
Jewish students at Columbia University gather on Low Steps on Tuesday, March 11 to demonstrate for Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Palestinian activist and Columbia graduate who was detained by ICE on March 8. (Jackie Hajdenberg)
Posted inU.S.

Feds arrest a second Columbia protester, set demands for school to regain funds cut over antisemitism

Ben Sales by Ben Sales March 14, 2025March 14, 2025
The city of Tyre in southern Lebanon is seen from its coastline. (Wikimedia Commons/Roman Deckert)
Posted inIsrael

Is Israel about to make peace with Lebanon?

Ben Sales by Ben Sales March 13, 2025March 13, 2025
President Donald Trump and Irish Taoiseach (prime minister) Micheal Martin speak to journalists ahead of meetings in the Oval Office at the White House on March 12, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Posted inPolitics

In meeting with Irish leader, Trump disparages Chuck Schumer as ‘not Jewish anymore’

Ben Sales by Ben Sales March 12, 2025March 12, 2025
Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Palestinian activist at Columbia who was arrested by ICE in March 2025, speaking to media. (Screenshot)
Posted inU.S.

A growing number of Jewish groups are condemning Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest

Ben Sales by Ben Sales March 11, 2025March 11, 2025
Rabbi Denise Eger (center) reads Torah during her March 16, 2015 installation as president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis. (Photo/JTA-David A.M. Wilensky)
Posted inU.S.

Pro-Israel LGBTQ group A Wider Bridge names new leadership after previous director charged with sexual misconduct

Ben Sales by Ben Sales March 11, 2025March 11, 2025
Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Palestinian activist at Columbia who was arrested by ICE in March 2025, speaking to media. (Screenshot)
Posted inU.S.

ICE detains Palestinian protest leader with green card at Columbia

Ben Sales by Ben Sales March 10, 2025March 10, 2025

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