Ben Sales JTA
Jonathan Greenblatt, ADL CEO and national director, at the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) National Leadership Summit in Washington, DC. (Photo by Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
August 19, 2020, 10:17 am
Liberal Jewish groups defend ADL after renewed attack from progressive coalition
More than 150 progressive groups signed an open letter calling for the ADL to be excluded from social justice coalitions.
By Ben Sales JTA
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during the F8 Facebook Developers Conference in San Jose, Calif., May 1, 2018. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
August 12, 2020, 10:54 am
Facebook announces new policy combating anti-Jewish stereotypes
Facebook still doesn’t view Holocaust denial as violative of its terms of service.
By Ben Sales JTA
Photo by SerrNovik/iStockphoto.com
July 8, 2020, 10:52 am
Jewish camp delays start date after counselor tests positive for coranvirus
Camp Seneca Lake reschedules opening
By Ben Sales JTA
BEIJING, April 10, 2018: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (C) testifies at a joint hearing of the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C., United States, on April 10, 2018. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Congress in written testimony on Monday that he is "responsible for" not preventing the social media platform from being used for harm, including fake news, foreign interference in elections and hate speech. (Xinhua/Ting Shen via Getty Images)
July 8, 2020, 9:37 am
How the ADL went from working with Facebook to leading a boycott against it
ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt: Facebook "has allowed some of the worst elements of society into our homes and lives."
By Ben Sales JTA
Residents learn Facebook at the Jewish Community Housing for the Elderly in Massachusetts.Suzanne Kreiter/Getty Images/via JTA
March 18, 2020, 9:43 am
How Jewish nursing homes are trying to keep seniors safe from the coronavirus
No visitors, no group dinners
By Ben Sales JTA
New York City Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza speaks at a press conference ahead of a students’ tour of the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City in January. Photo by Ben Sales
January 23, 2020, 9:24 am
Non-Jewish students tour the Museum of Jewish Heritage
Effort attempts to build empathy, counter anti-Semitism
By Ben Sales JTA
MANHATTAN, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - 2020/01/05: Participant holding a sign at the rally. Thousands of New Yorkers of all backgrounds joined community leaders and city and statewide elected officials in Foley Square at the No Hate. No Fear. solidarity march in unity against the rise of anti-semitism. (Photo by Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)
January 9, 2020, 2:59 pm
25,000 march against anti-Semitism in New York City
Rally was organized by the New York Times Editorial Board
By Ben Sales JTA
Rabbi Moshe Schapiro shows a toy to a child during the charity drive in Jersey City, New Jersey. Photo courtesy of Benny Polatseck via JTA.org
January 1, 2020, 5:59 pm
Blacks and Jews in Jersey City unite for holiday charity drive
Events took place two weeks after shooting
By Ben Sales JTA
Howard Rieger, a former president and CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh, stands in a new kosher section in a West Rogers Park grocery store. Photo by Ben Sales
December 24, 2019, 8:58 pm
Pittsburgher helps rebuild Chicago Jewish neighborhood
Former Federation CEO aids Jewish community
By Ben Sales JTA
October 15, 2019, 9:21 pm
America’s 7.5 million Jews are older, whiter and more liberal
Than the country as a whole
By Ben Sales JTA
Ceen Gabbai with friends in one of Saddam Hussein's castles. Photo courtesy of Gabbai
October 10, 2019, 5:26 pm
Here’s what it’s like to grow up as a Jew in Iraq
Iraqi Jew recounts life under Saddam Hussein
By Ben Sales JTA
NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 24: A Hasidic man walks by a police car in a Jewish Orthodox neighborhood in Brooklyn on April 24, 2017 in New York City. According to a new report released by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), anti-Semitic incidents in the U.S. rose by 86 percent in the first three months of the year. The group's audit of anti-Semitic events counted 541 anti-Semitic attacks and threats in the first quarter of the year, a significant increase over the same period last year. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
October 10, 2019, 5:20 pm
Anti-Semitic hate crimes in NYC have risen significantly in 2019
311 hate crimes reported through September
By Ben Sales JTA
The columnist called out the Republican party for ignoring allegations of sexual misconduct against President Trump. (Photo by Olivier Douliery/Pool/Getty Images)
September 25, 2019, 12:00 pm
The Trump-Ukraine Controversy, and the Jews invovled
The phone call that initiated an impeachment investigation
By Ben Sales JTA
A view outside the Yeshivah of Flatbush Joel Braverman High School in Brooklyn, N.Y. Photo courtesy of Google Street View
September 25, 2019, 11:53 am
‘We feel like we failed’
How one Jewish school is processing the arrest of a teacher who preyed on children
By Ben Sales JTA
August 21, 2019, 12:11 pm
Here’s what Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib were going to do
On their trip to Israel and the West Bank
By Ben Sales JTA
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