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Ben Sales

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Ben Sales is news editor of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

A picture of Greta Thunberg in the Associated Press office in Jerusalem. (Allison Kaplan Sommer via Patty Nieberg/Twitter)
Posted inIsrael

Greta-shaming: Israelis put photos of teen climate activist near plastic utensils

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA November 7, 2019November 7, 2019
Temple Emanuel in Pueblo, Colo., was targeted in a bombing plot by a white supremacist whose plans never came to fruition. (Screenshot from Google Maps Street View)
Posted inU.S.

White supremacist arrested in plot to blow up Colorado synagogue

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA November 4, 2019
Jared Kushner at a White House meeting with President Donald Trump, Jan. 11, 2018 (Photo/JTA-Mark Wilson-Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

Kushner appears to back Israeli unity government, says he’s been cleaning up Biden’s mess

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA October 31, 2019
A police car sits outside the shuttered embassy of Israel in Moscow, Oct. 30, 2019. /JTA-Gavriil Grigorov-Getty Images
Posted inBay Area, Israel, U.S., World, Northern California, California, News

All of Israel’s embassies and consulates around the world are on strike

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA October 30, 2019
Quilted hearts sent in memoriam of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting. /Courtesy of the Tree of Life Congregation and Rauh Jewish History Program & Archives
Posted inU.S., News

What happens to memorial objects left at site of Pittsburgh synagogue shooting

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA October 25, 2019
(Photo/JTA-Jeffrey Greenberg-Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

America’s Jewish community is older, whiter and more liberal than the country as a whole — and it’s growing

Ben Sales by JTA and Ben Sales October 7, 2019October 7, 2019
The doors of the Tree of Life synagogue feature memorials surrounding the building nearly a year after the attack there that killed 11 worshippers. (Photo/JTA-Grace Yagel)
Posted inU.S.

‘An hour at a time’: How Pittsburgh survivors are struggling a year later

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA October 2, 2019October 2, 2019
A man looks at a Blue and White party election campaign poster showing its leaders Benny Gantz, Yair Lapid, Gaby Ashkenazi and Moshe Yaalon and Shas Party election campaign poster showing its spirtual leader Rabi Ovadia Yosef on April 1, 2019 in the city of Haedera, Israel.
Posted inNews

Most Israelis want Orthodox parties out of government, survey says

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA September 27, 2019
graphic depicts key players in election
Posted inNews

Israel’s election campaign has been a religious war of words

Ben Sales by Sam Sokol, Ben Sales and JTA September 16, 2019
Temple Beth Hatfiloh in Olympia, Wash., is the only synagogue in the United States known to be sheltering an undocumented immigrant. (Photo/Rabbi Seth Goldstein)
Posted inU.S.

A Guatemalan asylum seeker is being sheltered in a Washington state synagogue

Ben Sales by JTA and Ben Sales September 13, 2019September 13, 2019

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