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Ben Sales

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Ben Sales is news editor of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

Moria Shapira, an Airbnb apartment owner, cleans her apartment in the Adei Ad outpost north of the Palestinian village of al-Mughayyir, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, Nov. 20, 2018. (Photo/JTA-Menahem Kahana-AFP-Getty Images)
Posted inIsrael

Airbnb will cancel its ban on West Bank settlement listings

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA April 9, 2019
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu walking into a press room to make a statement to the press in his offices in Jerusalem, Feb. 28, 2019 in Jerusalem, after Israel’s Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit announced his decision to indict Netanyahu for bribery, fraud and breach of trust in three separate cases. (Photo/Lior Mizrahi-Getty Images)
Posted inIsrael, News

Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption scandals, explained

Ben Sales by JTA and Ben Sales March 5, 2019March 5, 2019
Rabbi Meir Kahane at a New York news conference, Aug. 31, 1984. (Photo/JTA-Gene Kappock-NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)
Posted inIsrael

Extremist rabbi’s legacy again haunting Israeli politics

Ben Sales by Ben Sales February 22, 2019February 25, 2019
SpaceIL co-founders (from left) Kfir Damari, Yonatan Winetraub and Yariv Bash insert a time capsule into their spacecraft. (Photo/SpaceIL)
Posted inBay Area, Israel, News

Israel aims to be fourth country to land on moon

Ben Sales by JTA and Ben Sales February 22, 2019February 21, 2019
7 people sitting on a couch smiling
Posted inBay Area, U.S., News

‘Pinkwashing’ protest again sparks controversy at LGBTQ conference

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA January 29, 2019
a red-haired woman with glasses and a woman with dark curly hair embrace and make faces for the comera
Posted inComedy

The greatest Jewish-Palestinian lesbian comedy duo in the world

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA January 21, 2019
From left, Bishop James Shannon, Rabbi Abraham Heschel, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rabbi Maurice Eisendrath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington Cemetery, Feb. 6, 1968. (Photo/JTA-Charles Del Vecchio-Washington Post-Getty Images)
Posted inMLK Day

Jews of color on what MLK Day means to them in 2019

Ben SalesJosefin Dolsten by JTA, Ben Sales and Josefin Dolsten January 20, 2019January 18, 2019
Bernie Madoff shown entering a federal court in New York March 12, 2009. His historic Ponzi scheme had enormous impact on several Jewish organizations and Jewish friends he cultivated in business and social circles. (Photo/JTA-Stephen Chernin-Getty Images)
Posted inU.S., News, Philanthropy

10 years ago, the Bernie Madoff scandal rocked Jewish philanthropy. Here’s how his victims have fared.

Ben Sales by JTA and Ben Sales December 21, 2018December 21, 2018
Polis smiling in a suit and glasses
Posted inU.S.

Here are the 2018 midterms results that matter most to Jews

Ben Sales by JTA and Ben Sales November 7, 2018November 7, 2018
a protester with a sign reading: "Trump, renounce white nationalism now"
Posted inU.S.

For Jews, disunity and hate define midterms

Ben Sales by JTA and Ben Sales November 6, 2018November 7, 2018

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