Ben Sales
By Ben Sales
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The Schmooze Rabbi Wins Buenos Aires Parliamentary Election in Landslide
In the metropolitan area where Adolf Eichmann once hid, a rabbi is now a member of parliament. Rabbi Sergio Bergman, representing the center-right PRO Party Buenos Aires’s municipal election, won 45% of the vote in a race featuring 10 candidates, according to the JTA. He garnered more than three times the votes of his runner…
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The Schmooze ‘LaunchBox’ Wins ‘Next Big Jewish Idea’ Competition
She had to compete against an interactive Jewish history website for kids, a service-learning trip for b’nai-mitzvah and a financial education program, but Batsheva Frankel will receive a $100,000 grant from the Los Angeles Jewish Federation for her new program, “LaunchBox.” LaunchBox, an initiative to send to families in Los Angeles boxes containing tools and…
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The Schmooze Former Klan Leader Exploring GOP Presidential Bid
A field crowded with governors, senators and a past speaker of the house may be welcoming a man with a more unique qualification: David Duke, a former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. Duke is embarking on a tour of 25 states to see whether he could go all the way to the White…
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News A Gay-Friendly Israel Is Complicated for Jewish LGBT Congregations
Like many synagogues, Congregation Beit Simchat Torah — New York’s only lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender synagogue — takes its members on a mission to Israel. Many other American synagogue missions focus on the Jewish state’s political and security challenges, and spend significant time touring Israel’s holy sites. But the recent two-week trip of CBST…
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News Hadar’s Popular Egalitarian Yeshiva Grapples With Sex Before Marriage
Just weeks before starting his year as a fellow at Yeshivat Hadar, an egalitarian Judaic learning program for adults, Itamar Landau moved in with his girlfriend. The fellowship demanded that Landau keep kosher and observe the Sabbath. The couple agreed to separate milk and meat in their shared kitchen and to refrain from activities such…
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News Unrest on the Day of Rest: The Halakha of the Middle East Protests
For many weeks, thousands of people have massed in public squares across the Arab world, protesting for democracy. Many of the largest gatherings have occurred on Friday, Islam’s day of public prayer, sometimes stretching past sunset and continuing the following day. The protests have drawn young and old, religious and secular, men and women. But…
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News The Halacha of WikiLeaks
If Julian Assange were an observant Jew, would he still have publicized his WikiLeaks? Aside from shaking up the world of foreign policy, the flood of diplomatic cables that Assange released November 28 has caused a corresponding flood of questions about the leaks’ morality and legality. Assange’s defenders claim that he’s making the world a…
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News Requiem for Russ
Wisconsin’s voters may have rejected Senator Russ Feingold, but he still has a place in the heart of the state’s Jewish community. Feingold, a Democrat who lives in Middleton, Wisc., lost his seat to Republican businessman Ron Johnson on Nov. 2 and will end his 18-year career as the state’s junior U.S. Senator next month….
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