At least 45 dead in stampede at mass Lag b’Omer event
Ben Sales, JTAApr 29, 2021
At least 45 people were crushed to death and at least 150 wounded Thursday night in a stampede during a celebration that drew tens of thousands of haredi Orthodox Jews...
Whither immigration?
Ben Sales, JTAApr 22, 2021
WASHINGTON — Three weeks after taking office, Joe Biden announced that he would quadruple the number of refugees allowed into the US. For HIAS, it seemed like an...
Conservative Judaism faces the Zoom question
Ben Sales, JTAApr 15, 2021
NEW YORK — On the first weekend of the coronavirus lockdowns in New York City in March, 2020, Rabbi Rachel Ain decided that her Conservative synagogue would conduct...
The other Abbas — kingmaker?
Ben Sales, JTAApr 08, 2021
JERUSALEM — Following yet another Israeli election, voters are getting to know an unlikely kingmaker: Mansour Abbas, an Arab-Israeli lawmaker who might be the one to...
Vaccine passports — and reaction to them — critiqued
Ben Sales, JTAApr 01, 2021
WASHINGTON — Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) and a member of the US Holocaust Memorial Council compare the idea of “vaccine passports” to Nazi Germany, with the...
Israel election: path forward uncertain
Ben Sales, JTAMar 25, 2021
PASSOVER EDITION 5781 SECTION A PAGE 9 JERUSALEM — With the vast majority of votes counted from the Israeli March 23 election, it appears that neither Benjamin...
In Israel, conversion decision courts controversy
Ben Sales, JTAMar 11, 2021
JERUSALEM — In Israel, a Supreme Court ruling liberalizing Jewish conversion standards is sparking a political crisis just three weeks before the country holds a...
Will Netanyahu win again?
Ben Sales, JTAJan 14, 2021
JERUSALEM — In about two months, Israelis will vote in a national election. Seem familiar? It is. Israel will hold its fourth election in just two years — the latest...
Anti-Semitism panel features Rashida Tlaib, Marc Lamont Hill
Ben Sales, JTADec 17, 2020
NEW YORK — At a panel on anti-Semitism, four speakers known for their outspoken criticism of Israel — including Rep. Rashida Tlaib — said that they themselves do...
Film ‘White Noise’ explores far, alt-right
Ben Sales, JTANov 05, 2020
NEW YORK — Soon after Donald Trump’s surprise election win in 2016, raw footage emerged of a rally where white supremacist Richard Spencer called out “Hail Trump!...
