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Ben Sales

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Ben Sales is news editor of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

Shlomo Carlebach at his 1960s base of operations, the House of Love and Prayer in San Francisco
Posted inJewish Life

The synagogues that are saying #MeToo to banning Shlomo Carlebach

Ben Sales by Ben Sales January 30, 2018
A Jewish family in Jedrzejow, Poland, circa 1900 (Photo/JTA-Imagno-Getty Images)
Posted inNews

When Jews came from ‘shithole countries’

Ben Sales by Ben Sales January 12, 2018March 19, 2018
Rabbi Rick Jacobs ( center), head of North America's Union for Reform Judaism, and other non-Orthodox Jews clashing with security guards at the entrance to the Western Wall plaza in Jerusalem, Nov. 16, 2017. (Photo/JTA-Noam Rivkin Fenton/Flash 90)
Posted inNews

Four ways Israeli and American Jews grew apart in 2017

Ben Sales by Ben Sales December 20, 2017March 19, 2018
Members of the 2017-18 seventh-grade class at the Brandeis School of San Francisco (Photo/JTA-Ben Sales)
Posted inEducation

S.F. students put philanthropy ahead of b’nai mitzvah gifts

Ben Sales by Ben Sales December 11, 2017
From left to right: A villainous Bernie Bernstein from the cartoon “Powerpuff Girls,” Bernie Sanders and Carl Bernstein. (Illustration/JTA collage-Getty Images)
Posted inFirst Person

What happened when I tried to speak to Bernie Bernstein — any Bernie Bernstein

Ben Sales by Ben Sales November 17, 2017
Chava Gal-Or has been distributing mezuzahs for free to Jewish hurricane victims. (Photo/Courtesy Chava Gal-Or)
Posted inNews

This Texan distributes mezuzahs to hurricane and fire victims

Ben Sales by Ben Sales November 16, 2017March 19, 2018
Israelis Yuval Machlin, Kfir Eyal, Daniel Shaked and Alon Matas (from left) in front of Plug n’ Play, the Silicon Valley incubator where they work. (Photo/Ben Sales)
Posted inNews

Israeli startups grapple with foreign Silicon Valley culture

Ben Sales by Ben Sales November 9, 2017
A member of Jews for Jesus proselytizing on Market Street in San Francisco, Oct. 31, 2015 (Photo/Flickr-Steve Rhodes CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Posted inNews

Bizarre results in Jews for Jesus’ new study on Jewish millennials

Ben Sales by Ben Sales November 2, 2017March 19, 2018
"For shabbat tonight, we gave Max a kiddush cup that has been in our family for almost 100 years," Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post on Sept. 15, 2017. (Photo/Facebook)
Posted inTech

Why Mark Zuckerberg suddenly embraced his Judaism

Ben Sales by Ben Sales October 4, 2017March 19, 2018
Children sitting at the Park East Synagogue, a Modern Orthodox congregation in New York City, March 3, 2017. (Photo/JTA-Drew Angerer-Getty Images)
Posted inNews

Five takeaways from a new survey of Modern Orthodox Jews

Ben Sales by Ben Sales October 3, 2017March 19, 2018

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