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Jewish camp delays start date after counselor tests positive for coronavirus

Ben Sales
Published July 3, 2020

How the ADL went from working with Facebook to leading a boycott against it

Ben Sales
Published July 1, 2020

What is Fox Soul TV? And is it broadcasting a speech by Louis Farrakhan?

Ben Sales
Published June 29, 2020

A Jewish camp is opening — on the video game Minecraft

Ben Sales
Published June 29, 2020

Catholic archdiocese defends statue of King Louis IX, the namesake of St. Louis, who persecuted Jews

Ben Sales
Published June 29, 2020

Should St. Louis take down the statue of its anti-Semitic namesake? Activists say yes.

Ben Sales
Published June 26, 2020

For the few Jewish camps that are opening, finding willing families hasn’t been hard

Ben Sales
Published June 24, 2020

The new head of a synagogue security agency wants to start training Jews in college

Ben Sales
Published June 19, 2020

Protesting hate speech, ADL and NAACP call on companies to stop running Facebook ads in July

Ben Sales
Published June 17, 2020

Calls to defund the police put Jewish institutions in a tough position

Ben Sales
Published June 12, 2020

Responding to a petition, new leader of major Jewish coalition condemns sexual misconduct but stops short of policy barring harassers

Ben Sales
Published June 11, 2020

Meet the Boogaloo Bois, the violent right-wing extremists who (mostly) don’t hate the Jews

Ben Sales
Published June 5, 2020

A black pastor organized an interfaith rally in Chicago to protest systemic racism. He and 5 rabbis share their experiences.

Ben Sales
Published June 3, 2020

There are now 500,000 negative tweets about George Soros every day. Many claim he’s funding George Floyd protests.

Ben Sales
Published June 3, 2020

Amid George Floyd protests, Trump called Antifa a terror organization. Here’s what you need to know about the anti-fascist group.

Ben Sales
Published June 1, 2020

How some Jewish summer camps are going virtual this year

Ben Sales
Published May 28, 2020

A Florida JCC survived the pandemic with no layoffs. Now it’s reopening.

Ben Sales
Published May 22, 2020

How summer camp has become an American Jewish institution

Ben Sales
Published May 22, 2020

A global virtual color war for Jewish millennials could be a model for camp in the COVID-19 era

Ben Sales
Published May 21, 2020

With a woman taking charge of the Conference of Presidents, 250 Jewish leaders press for sexual harassers to be barred

Ben Sales
Published May 20, 2020

A Jewish camp in Maine is actually opening. Here’s how it plans to keep COVID-19 away.

Ben Sales
Published May 18, 2020

Ramah camps anticipate a total budget shortfall of $27 million this year, but don’t expect to fold

Ben Sales
Published May 14, 2020

Conservative Jewish youth group USY cancels summer travel programs due to COVID-19

Ben Sales
Published May 14, 2020

With hope fading and regulations tightening, more Jewish camps set to cancel

Ben Sales
Published May 13, 2020

The biggest Jewish coronavirus relief fund will soon start giving out loans

Ben Sales
Published May 12, 2020

2019 saw the most anti-Semitic incidents in at least 40 years, ADL says

Ben Sales
Published May 12, 2020

From cabins to bungalows: Some Jewish overnight camps may become socially distanced family retreats this summer

Ben Sales
Published May 5, 2020

‘The Big Lebowski’ is a perfect watch for our crazy times. It’s also surprisingly Jewish.

Ben Sales
Published May 1, 2020

5 key takeaways about the Gantz-Netanyahu deal and Israel’s new government

Ben Sales
Published April 24, 2020

From prayers to puppets: This new group is a one-stop shop for Jewish livestreams

Ben Sales
Published April 24, 2020

Half of Jewish groups that applied got government loans totaling $264 million, survey finds

Ben Sales
Published April 22, 2020

More than half of American Jews have seen or experienced anti-Semitism in recent years, ADL finds

Ben Sales
Published April 21, 2020

Jewish nonprofits are struggling. How should donors try to rescue them?

Ben Sales
Published April 20, 2020

Brooklyn Hasidic neighborhoods see spike in at-home deaths during coronavirus crisis

Ben Sales
Published April 17, 2020

Brooklyn’s Orthodox neighborhoods have especially high rates of the coronavirus

Ben Sales
Published April 2, 2020

‘I would have canceled’: 3 weeks after Purim celebrations, coronavirus is hitting Jewish communities hard

Ben Sales
Published April 2, 2020

In a possible sign of what’s to come, this JCC has already laid off 176 people because of the coronavirus

Ben Sales
Published March 27, 2020

Israel is going through a constitutional crisis

Ben Sales
Published March 24, 2020

‘Painful and deep’: Jewish nonprofits face dire economic prospects during and after coronavirus

Ben Sales
Published March 23, 2020

Saying Kaddish from balconies and fasting: How Hasidic Jews are responding to the coronavirus

Ben Sales
Published March 19, 2020

100 people test positive for coronavirus in Hasidic Brooklyn neighborhood

Ben Sales
Published March 17, 2020

Passover in a pandemic: Families on Zoom, solo seders and broken traditions

Ben Sales
Published March 17, 2020

No visitors, no group dinners: How Jewish nursing homes are trying to keep seniors safe from the coronavirus

Ben Sales
Published March 13, 2020

Jewish summer camps are already preparing for the coronavirus

Ben Sales
Published March 12, 2020

In the new Daf Yomi cycle, daily Talmud study is reaching new populations

Ben Sales
Published March 9, 2020

Purim is a holiday for partying. This year, coronavirus makes things different.

Ben Sales
Published March 4, 2020

A Syrian Muslim donated a tree in Israel for an Italian boy whose bar mitzvah party was canceled due to coronavirus

Ben Sales
Published March 3, 2020

This Italian Jewish kid was supposed to have a 600-person bar mitzvah party. Then coronavirus hit.

Ben Sales
Published February 27, 2020

2 months after deadly shooting, Jersey City’s kosher supermarket is starting to reopen

Ben Sales
Published February 26, 2020

United by hatred of Jews and immigrants, white supremacists are increasingly working together across borders

Ben Sales
Published February 20, 2020

Teenage Orthodox pingpong phenom may have to skip Olympics because trials are on Shabbat

Ben Sales
Published February 14, 2020

New documentary examines anti-Semitism in US and Europe

Ben Sales
Published February 14, 2020

White supremacists distributed more propaganda in 2019 but held fewer events, ADL says

Ben Sales
Published February 12, 2020

An unpopular Palestinian president and a disgraced former Israeli prime minister make the case for peace

Ben Sales
Published February 11, 2020

Meet Lior Schleien, Israel’s Jon Stewart

Ben Sales
Published February 7, 2020

ADL poll: Anti-Semitic violence is on the rise in America — but anti-Semitic attitudes are not

Ben Sales
Published January 29, 2020

William Barr meets with Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn over anti-Semitism and places blame on the left

Ben Sales
Published January 28, 2020

She has 6 employees and less than $2 million. The mission: Stop anti-Semitism in New York City.

Ben Sales
Published January 27, 2020

Bus carrying Hasidic boys to weekend retreat in the Catskills flips over, injuring 18

Ben Sales
Published January 24, 2020

Most American adults don’t know 6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust, survey finds

Ben Sales
Published January 22, 2020

On patrol with a Monsey Hasidic security force

Ben Sales
Published January 21, 2020

Young people are responsible for most of New York City’s anti-Semitic attacks. Will Holocaust education help?

Ben Sales
Published January 15, 2020

Fieldston School fires teacher who posted anti-Zionist tweets

Ben Sales
Published January 9, 2020

NAACP and ADL announce partnership to educate public officials against hate in New Jersey

Ben Sales
Published January 9, 2020

Monsey rabbi who survived stabbing attack gives invocation at New York State of the State address

Ben Sales
Published January 8, 2020

NAACP suspends official who said ‘the Hasidics are generally not too friendly’

Ben Sales
Published January 8, 2020

As anti-Semitism rises, a new NY bail law comes under attack

Ben Sales
Published January 7, 2020

Why the Jersey City official who called local Jews ‘brutes’ has not resigned

Ben Sales
Published January 7, 2020

4 ways New York’s government is trying to fight rising anti-Semitism

Ben Sales
Published January 7, 2020

25,000 march against anti-Semitism in New York City

Ben Sales
Published January 5, 2020

After machete attack, Monsey’s Orthodox Jews are defiant but searching for answers

Ben Sales
Published December 29, 2019

Netanyahu easily wins Likud party primary to remain prime minister candidate

Ben Sales
Published December 26, 2019

2 weeks after deadly shooting, blacks and Jews in Jersey City unite for holiday charity drive

Ben Sales
Published December 24, 2019

Hebrew language classes in public schools are rare — but they’re on the rise in Chicago’s suburbs

Ben Sales
Published December 23, 2019

The rise, fall and rise again of a historically Jewish Chicago neighborhood

Ben Sales
Published December 19, 2019

Inside the biggest American Shabbat service of the year

Ben Sales
Published December 17, 2019

Reform Jewish movement votes to support reparations for African-Americans

Ben Sales
Published December 13, 2019

Joint Distribution Committee chooses new president following first contested election

Ben Sales
Published December 9, 2019

Life was good for the Jews of this New York suburb. Then a schoolteacher was stabbed.

Ben Sales
Published November 21, 2019

Ukraine asked Alexander Vindman to be its defense minister, and other takeaways from his impeachment testimony

Ben Sales
Published November 19, 2019

These Manhattan synagogues want to become condominiums

Ben Sales
Published November 18, 2019

More than one-third of US Christians have heard their clergy speak out about Jews

Ben Sales
Published November 15, 2019

Jews again were the victims of most of the religion-based hate crimes in 2018, FBI says

Ben Sales
Published November 13, 2019

What is causing the spike in anti-Semitic attacks in Brooklyn?

Ben Sales
Published November 12, 2019

Michael Bloomberg preparing to run for president

Ben Sales
Published November 8, 2019

Meet the rabbi who led Yom Kippur services in Saddam Hussein’s palace

Ben Sales
Published November 7, 2019

A ‘vicious, vile media lynch’: Yair Netanyahu slams the mainstream Israeli press

Ben Sales
Published November 7, 2019

Liberal Jewish groups ask Israeli politicians to oppose West Bank annexation — even if Trump supports it

Ben Sales
Published November 6, 2019

You can buy Marilyn Monroe’s menorah for $150,000

Ben Sales
Published November 1, 2019

Jared Kushner appears to back Israeli unity government

Ben Sales
Published October 30, 2019

All of Israel’s embassies are on strike

Ben Sales
Published October 30, 2019

Robert Evans, storied producer of ‘Godfather’ and ‘Chinatown,’ dies at 89

Ben Sales
Published October 30, 2019

What happens to the memorial objects left at the site of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting

Ben Sales
Published October 24, 2019

Orthodox synagogue association honored 2 Giuliani associates months before they were arrested

Ben Sales
Published October 11, 2019

America’s 7.5 million Jews are older, whiter and more liberal than the country as a whole

Ben Sales
Published October 7, 2019

Anti-Semitic hate crimes in NYC have risen significantly in 2019

Ben Sales
Published October 4, 2019

Here’s what it’s like to grow up as a Jew in Iraq

Ben Sales
Published October 3, 2019

Reliving the massacre every minute: How Pittsburgh survivors are struggling a year later

Ben Sales
Published October 2, 2019

Reliving the massacre every minute: How Pittsburgh survivors are struggling a year later

Ben Sales
Published October 2, 2019

Most Israelis want Orthodox parties out of government, survey says

Ben Sales
Published September 26, 2019