Whither the Pittsburgh memorial objects?
Ben Sales, JTAOct 31, 2019
PITTSBURGH — Eric Lidji remembers people leaving objects in sets of 11. Eleven white feathers. Eleven Jewish stars. Eleven egg-shaped sculptures. But mostly, Lidji...
Growing up Jewish in Iraq
Ben Sales, JTAOct 10, 2019
NEW YORK — When Ceen Gabbai argued with her first-grade teacher about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, she didn’t realize how big of a risk she was taking. The year...
Rebuilding black-Jewish relations
Ben Sales, JTASep 19, 2019
NEW YORK— At the end of August, the New York Police Dept. hate crimes task force investigated an alleged anti-Semitic attack near Brower Park in the Crown Heights...
Why do all major Israeli political parties agree on the Jordan Valley annexation?
Ben Sales, JTASep 12, 2019
JERUSALEM — Benjamin Netanyahu just said that if he is re-elected next week, he’ll immediately annex a big part of the West Bank: the Jordan Valley. That’s kind of...
Repeated attacks on Brooklyn Jews
Ben Sales, JTASep 05, 2019
NEW YORK — As he talks about the recent string of attacks on Jews in Brooklyn, Yosef Rapaport points to a small scar above his right eye. It’s the remnant […]
Who were Tlaib and Omar’s hosts going to be?
Ben Sales, JTAAug 22, 2019
WASHINGTON — Explaining Israel’s decision not to allow Democratic congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib to visit Israel and Palestinian areas of the West Bank...
Did Israel politics lead camp to reassign counselor?
Ben Sales, JTAAug 15, 2019
NEW YORK — A Conservative Jewish summer camp denies that it makes personnel decisions based on politics after a senior staff member claimed she was removed from her...
Does ‘domestic terrorism’ have teeth?
Ben Sales, JTAAug 08, 2019
EL PASO — Before he killed at least 22 people at a Walmart on the southern border, the gunman in El Paso posted a white supremacist manifesto on the fringe […]
Suspect still at large in Miami shooting
Ben Sales, JTAAug 01, 2019
MIAMI — When Rabbi Mark Rosenberg’s family played back the footage on their home’s security cameras in North Miami Beach, they could hear the rat-tat-tat of...
The only immigration lawyer in town
Ben Sales, JTAJun 06, 2019
DURHAM, NC — Most of the year, Marty Rosenbluth lives alone in a small house in Lumpkin, a Georgia town with 2,000 residents and one restaurant. It’s 500 miles away...
