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Ben Sales

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Ben Sales is news editor of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

A view of the border fence between Israel and Jordan in the Jordan Valley, in the West Bank, Feb. 13, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Yonatan Sindel-Flash90)
Posted inNews

Netanyahu’s push to annex the Jordan Valley, explained

Ben Sales by JTA and Ben Sales September 10, 2019September 11, 2019
Yosef Rapaport, left, and his son Alexander do not feel that life has become more dangerous for Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn. They say attacks on Jews are nothing new. (Photo/JTA-Ben Sales)
Posted inU.S.

In Orthodox Jewish Brooklyn, a spate of assaults feels like more of the same

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA September 4, 2019
Undocumented Mexican immigrants are photographed while being processed at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement center in Phoenix, Ariz., April 28, 2010. (Photo/JTA-John Moore-Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

ICE officer who drove into Jewish demonstrators placed on leave as 5 protesters hospitalized

Ben Sales by JTA and Ben Sales August 15, 2019August 15, 2019
A pickup truck drives into a row of Jewish protesters sitting at the entrance to a parking lot outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Central Falls, Rhode Island on August 14, 2019. (Photo/Screenshot from Facebook)
Posted inU.S.

Truck drives into row of Jewish protesters at ICE facility in Rhode Island

Ben Sales by JTA and Ben Sales August 15, 2019August 15, 2019
Leslie Wexner, left, and Jeffrey Epstein were close for years. Now Epstein's scandal is dogging the billionaire Jewish philanthropist. (Photos/Getty Images; Collage/JTA-Laura E. Adkins)
Posted inNews

The ties between Jeffrey Epstein and Jewish mega-donor Leslie Wexner

Ben Sales by JTA and Ben Sales August 14, 2019August 15, 2019
Rabbi Mira Rivera speaks at a Jewish protest against Amazon at one of the company’s brick-and-mortar stores in New York City, Aug. 11, 2019. The protest was held on Tisha B’Av, a traditional Jewish day of mourning. Behind the speaker is a banner with a Hebrew quotation from the Book of Lamentations, which is traditionally read on Tisha B'Av. (Photo/JTA-Facebook video screenshot)
Posted inNews

40 Jews arrested in New York protesting Amazon’s ties with ICE

Ben Sales by JTA and Ben Sales August 12, 2019August 12, 2019
Sylvie Rosen, 22, was a staff member at Ramah in the Rockies for five summers before running into controversy there this year. (Photo/Courtesy Rosen)
Posted inU.S.

Jewish camp denies it removed a counselor because of her views on Israel

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA August 7, 2019
Armed police officers gather next to an FBI armored vehicle at the Cielo Vista Mall in El Paso, Texas, following a mass shooting there on Aug. 3, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Joel Angel Juarez-AFP-Getty Images)
Posted inNews

The El Paso shooting is being investigated as domestic terrorism. Does that matter?

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA August 7, 2019September 18, 2019
Alyssa Milano and Ady Barkan (center) attend the Los Angeles Supports a Dream Act Now! protest at the office of California Senator Dianne Feinstein on Jan. 3, 2018. (Photo/JTA-Getty Images-Gabriel Olsen)
Posted inNews

Who is Ady Barkan, the health care activist name-checked by Elizabeth Warren?

Ben Sales by Ben Sales July 31, 2019July 31, 2019
The Young Israel of Greater Miami synagogue on the night of the shooting, July 28, 2019 (Screenshot from Local10.com)
Posted inNews

‘We no longer feel comfortable in our own shul’: North Miami Beach’s Jews cope after another synagogue shooting

Ben Sales by Ben Sales July 31, 2019August 8, 2019

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