Three weeks after Purim, coronavirus is hitting Jewish communities hard
Ben Sales, JTAApr 08, 2020
NEW YORK — The day before the chasidic folk band Zusha performed before a crowd of 300 in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights on the evening of March 9,...
Daf Yomi attracts wide spectrum of learners
Ben Sales, JTAMar 26, 2020
NEW YORK — In December, when she was given two to four years to live, Catherine Johnson decided to start studying a page of Talmud a day. The expansive work […]
Chasidic all-volunteer security force
Ben Sales, JTAJan 23, 2020
MONSEY, NY — Eleven days after a man barged into a rabbi’s home on Chanukah here and stabbed five Jews, Josef Margaretten was patrolling this chasidic neighborhood...
Rabbi Rottenberg delivers invocation at Gov. Cuomo’s State of the State
Ben Sales, JTAJan 16, 2020
NEW YORK — Rabbi Chaim Rottenberg, whose home was the site of a stabbing last month on the holiday of Chanukah, delivered an invocation at Governor Andrew Cuomo’s...
25,000 march against anti-Semitism in NY rally
Ben Sales, JTAJan 09, 2020
NEW YORK — An estimated 25,000 people marched across the Brooklyn Bridge and held a rally on Sunday, Jan. 5, to protest rising anti-Semitism in and around New York...
Again. This time, Monsey
Ben Sales, JTAJan 02, 2020
MONSEY, NY— A man wielding a machete walked into a rabbi’s home in Monsey, NY and stabbed five people. The Orthodox Jewish Public Affairs Council of the Hudson...
Rise, fall, rise of a Chicago Jewish neighborhood
Ben Sales, JTADec 26, 2019
CHICAGO — Decades ago, Congregation Ner Tamid would fill to capacity on the High Holidays, spilling over into three separate services to accommodate 1,000 worshippers....
Stabbing of schoolteacher has changed life in Ramapo, NY
Ben Sales, JTANov 28, 2019
Life was good — Then a schoolteacher was stabbed, almost to death, and life in Ramapo changed RAMAPO, NY— On the street where a man was stabbed to within an inch...
Vindman: ‘I am an American’
Ben Sales, JTANov 21, 2019
WASHINGTON — Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the Jewish National Security Council staffer whose firsthand account of the July phone call between President Donald Trump and...
The soldier who led Yom Kippur services in Saddam’s palace
Ben Sales, JTANov 14, 2019
ATLANTA — Near the start of the Iraq War in 2003, David Goldstrom found himself leading a Yom Kippur service for about 50 soldiers in one of Saddam Hussein’s former...
