Israel and American policing
Ben Sales, JTAJul 23, 2020
JERUSALEM — In June, as protests against policing in the US took hold, so did an accusation about a group of programs that sends American police chiefs to learn from...
Federal relief: half billion to 1,000 Jewish organizations
Ben Sales, JTAJul 16, 2020
NEW YORK — More than 1,000 Jewish organizations received federal coronavirus relief loans totaling approximately $540 million to $1.3 billion. The recipients included...
Overnight camp decides to open — calls flood in
Ben Sales, JTAJul 02, 2020
NEW YORK — Last week, as he prepared to open Camp Modin and administer coronavirus tests to its hundreds of campers and staff, Howard Salzberg was still fielding 50...
St. Louis statue of Louis IX under attack
Ben Sales, JTAJul 02, 2020
ST. LOUIS — On top of a hill in front of an art museum in the biggest park in St. Louis stands a statue of an anti-Semite. The monument to […]
Calls to defund the police put Jewish institutions in a tough position
Ben Sales, JTAJun 18, 2020
The protest movement against the police has put synagogues and other Jewish institutions in a challenging position: They are inclined to stand with the protest movement,...
Who and what are the Boogaloos?
Ben Sales, JTAJun 11, 2020
NEW YORK — There are men showing up to the George Floyd protests in body armor and Hawaiian shirts and they want to start a civil war. They call themselves […]
Can a computer screen replace a campfire?
Ben Sales, JTAJun 04, 2020
NEW YORK — Ask Jewish summer camp directors about the hardest part of designing a virtual camp experience for the COVID-19 era and they’ll laugh. Then they’ll say...
ADL: Anti-Semitic incidents rose in 2019
Ben Sales, JTAMay 14, 2020
NEW YORK — Last year saw the most anti-Semitic incidents in the US since at least 1979, according to the ADL. The 2,107 incidents recorded in 2019 reflect a 12%...
Summer camps closed, suspended
Ben Sales, JTAMay 07, 2020
NEW YORK — Nearly all Reform Jewish summer camps, and at least one Conservative camp, will remain closed for the 2020 summer due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic....
Israel’s new goverment; complicated power sharing
Ben Sales, JTAApr 23, 2020
JERUSALEM — Israel finally has a government. On April 20, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and chief rival Benny Gantz signed an agreement to form a coalition...
