New controversy from Israel: ‘Blacklist’
Ben Sales, JTAJul 13, 2017
NEW YORK — Some 160 rabbis, including several American Orthodox leaders, appear on a list of rabbis whom Israel’s Chief Rabbinate does not trust to confirm the...
Controversy over Kotel
Ben Sales, JTAJun 29, 2017
NEW YORK — American Jewish leaders are calling it a betrayal. They say that 17 months after achieving a historic agreement to provide a non-Orthodox space at...
Can rabbinical students be parents?
Ben Sales, JTAJun 29, 2017
NEW YORK — A few weeks after her first daughter’s due date, Catherine Clark was set to begin her fifth and final year at the Jewish Theological Seminary’s...
Jews sent $125 million to third world
Ben Sales, JTAJun 15, 2017
NEW YORK — Eighty percent of Jews live in two countries — Israel and the US — but Jewish organizations are spending more and more of their money elsewhere. Jewish...
Likud is conservative . . . and green
Ben Sales, JTAJun 08, 2017
JERUSALEM — President Donald Trump broke his campaign promise to relocate the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and reportedly leaked Israeli intelligence....
On BizTank, haredi entrepreneurs pitch their ideas
Ben Sales, JTAJun 02, 2017
NEW YORK — At the beginning of a takeoff of “Shark Tank” in Brooklyn, an Israeli in a beige kippah, gray blazer, pink shirt and blue jeans stands before a panel...
More shuls are getting rid of mandatory dues
Ben Sales, JTAJun 02, 2017
NEW YORK — “Voluntary dues” may sound like an oxymoron, but the idea may soon be coming to a synagogue near you. According to a new study by the UJA-Federation...
Ever wish you could go back to Jewish summer camp?
Ben Sales, JTAApr 14, 2017
NEW YORK — The campers wake up in their cabins on Friday morning, dress and go to breakfast. Next comes a range of activities — arts and crafts, archery, kickball....
Thousands protest BDS at UN
Ben Sales, JTAApr 06, 2017
PASSOVER EDITION 5777SECTION A PAGE 12 NEW YORK — Thousands attended a conference opposing the BDS movement at the UN headquarters in New York. The conference on March...
Not a white supremacist: Israeli arrested for JCC bomb threats
Ben Sales, JTAMar 30, 2017
NEW YORK — Many Jewish groups blamed white supremacists, emboldened by Donald Trump’s campaign, for the bomb threats that have plagued Jewish institutions since the...
