Gaza evacuees still waiting for homes
Ben Harris, JTAJan 14, 2010
NITZAN, Israel More than four years after her family was ejected from their home in the Gaza Strip, Karen Sarfaty lives with her husband and four of their children...
Conservative kibbutz celebrates
Ben Harris, JTAJan 07, 2010
KIBBUTZ HANNATON, Israel Over the din of children playing, some 20 people crowded into the home of Aylon and Ravit Samson here on the night of Jan. 2 for […]
Danish Jewry dwindles; future dim
Ben Harris, JTADec 18, 2009
COPENHAGEN Forty years ago, when a few thousand Polish Jewish refugees arrived in Denmark fleeing an anti-Semitic campaign orchestrated by Polands Communist...
Rubashkin — 1,250 years to appeal
Ben Harris, JTANov 19, 2009
WASHINGTON — Facing a prison sentence of up to 1,250 years following his conviction last week on 86 of 91 fraud charges, Sholom Rubashkin is hoping his exoneration...
Americans serving in IDF still crave a good Thanksgiving meal
Ben Harris, JTANov 19, 2009
KARNEI SHOMRON, West Bank About three months after she and her family made aliyah, Laura Savren walked up to the meat counter of her local supermarket and asked to...
The frum first date goes digital
Ben Harris, JTAJul 09, 2009
NEW YORK A new effort based in Baltimore represents the latest attempt to address the crisis of Orthodox Jewish singles unable to find suitable mates. The new...
The seven laws of Noah
Ben Harris, JTAJun 26, 2009
CLEVELAND, Tenn. When Jack Saunders began questioning the core religious claims of Christianity in the mid-1980s, it set him on a journey that eventually led to his...
Chabad rabbi seeks to clarify incendiary words
Ben Harris, JTAJun 04, 2009
NEW YORK A prominent Chabad rabbi is seeking to clarify remarks in which he renounced Western morality and seemed to call on Israel to massacre Palestinian...
Can Britain’s ‘chief’ sell in America?
Ben Harris, JTAMay 28, 2009
NEW YORK Most of what you need to know about Jonathan Sacks, the chief rabbi of the British commonwealth, is apparent from the story he tells of how his […]
New book, and new type of rabbinical career
Ben Harris, JTAMay 14, 2009
NEW YORK The tale Jill Jacobs tells of the first steps in her journey to becoming one of the most recognizable names in Jewish social justice work has something of...
