Ben Sales
By Ben Sales
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News Meet Franciso Salvador, the ‘southern Paul Revere’ and first Jew ever elected in America
Editor’s note: We’ve republished this article, which originally ran in 2017, in honor of the 245th anniversary of Francis Salvador’s death. (JTA) — Long before 30-somethings Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump had the ear of President-elect Donald Trump, a 27-year-old became the first Jew to ever hold elected office in what would become the United…
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News Social media companies say they ban Holocaust denial. Are they also blocking education?
(JTA) — In October, one day after Facebook announced that it would ban Holocaust denial, Izabella Tabarovsky received an unexpected message from the platform. A 2019 post of hers promoting an article she had written on Holocaust remembrance was being removed for violating Facebook’s “Community Standards on hate speech.” No further information was provided, and…
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News The deadly building collapse in Surfside struck a growing, diverse Jewish community
(JTA) — When a portion of Champlain Towers crumbled early Thursday morning, thrusting the beach town of Surfside, Florida into tragedy, it also struck at the heart of a thriving and growing Jewish community. As of Friday morning, four people had been confirmed dead, and local authorities say 159 remain missing. Search and rescue teams…
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Fast Forward A bullet was fired into a Brooklyn synagogue. The NYPD is investigating.
(JTA) — The New York Police Department is investigating the firing of a bullet into an empty synagogue in Brooklyn on Shabbat. No one was hurt in the incident at Khal Zichron Mordechai in the East Midwood neighborhood. The police told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that its Hate Crimes Task Force has been notified of…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Authority cancels deal for 1 million COVID vaccine doses from Israel
(JTA) — The Palestinian Authority canceled a deal that would have seen Israel give it one million COVID vaccine doses in exchange for a later shipment. The P.A. made the move because many of the doses were set to expire in the coming weeks, according to Haaretz. By time Palestinian Health Minister Mai al-Kaila announced…
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News How Naftali Bennett’s kippah stays on his bald head and why it matters
(JTA) — Israel’s new prime minister is probably the first one who has stuck a wad of chewing gum to his head right before a public event. Naftali Bennett, who took office this week, is the first prime minister in the country’s history to regularly wear a kippah, or Jewish ritual head covering. Unlike his…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu replaced as Israeli prime minister after 12 years in office
(JTA) — After 12 years, seven elections and three corruption charges, Benjamin Netanyahu is no longer the prime minister of Israel. Netanyahu, who served as Israel’s leader continuously beginning in 2009 and holds the distinction of being the country’s longest-serving prime minister, was removed from the job in a razor-thin vote in the Knesset, Israel’s…
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News Young Zionist Jews say they’re fighting antisemitism on social media. What are they accomplishing?
NEW YORK (JTA) — Two weeks after the recent flareup of violence in Israel and Gaza, as fights over Israel and Palestine raged on social media, Julia Jassey wondered aloud whether any of her effort was worth it. Jassey, a student at the University of Chicago, has spent the better part of a year immersed…
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