Jewish activists at the border
Ben Sales, JTAJun 21, 2018
When Mary McCabe explains America’s immigration courts to children who have been separated from their parents, she tries to make it interactive. She draws a sketch of...
Palestinian narrative comes to Jewish summer camps
Ben Sales, JTAJun 07, 2018
NEW YORK — When Aviva Schwartz started praying publicly for Palestinians at her Jewish summer camp, she knew it would be controversial. Schwartz had grown up ensconced...
Who’s eating the cake?
Ben Sales, JTAJun 07, 2018
NEW YORK — Seven Supreme Court justices sided with a Colorado baker in his legal fight with a homosexual couple, and seven major Jewish groups weighed in on the...
Using Israel’s tech boom to help veterans
Ben Sales, JTAMay 31, 2018
TEL AVIV — When Elad Horovitz was shot in the head during Israel’s 2014 war in Gaza, his first concern was survival, not how to maintain peripheral vision while...
Mahane Yehuda: Hip hangout by night
Ben Sales, JTAMay 31, 2018
JERUSALEM — In another life, Kobi Frig would have been sitting behind vats of spices in Jerusalem’s bustling, labyrinthine Mahane Yehuda market, hawking paprika,...
How 1948 changed American Jewry
Ben Sales, JTAMay 10, 2018
JERUSALEM — One year after Israel’s establishment, in the dead of night, three students ascended a tower at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York and raised...
Reckoning with the legacy of slavery
Ben Sales, JTAMay 03, 2018
MONTGOMERY — When Bryan Stevenson set out to build a memorial to the thousands of black people lynched in the US, he thought about Germany and Poland. Those countries,...
ADL: How it’s become a villain to the far left
Ben Sales, JTAApr 26, 2018
NEW YORK — When Starbucks announced that it would close its US stores for one day to conduct anti-bias training for employees, seeking the expertise of the...
Moot Beit Din explores Jewish view on torture
Ben Sales, JTAApr 19, 2018
PRINCETON, NJ — Does Jewish law allow — or even require — torture? That’s the question six teams of college students from across the country set out to answer at...
Beginning of the end of the Bibi era?
Ben Sales, JTAMar 01, 2018
JERUSALEM — Benjamin Netanyahu is in trouble. Maybe. The Israeli prime minister is engulfed simultaneously in four separate scandals, and each day seems to bring him...
