Ben Sales
By Ben Sales
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Breaking News Rutgers Anti-Semitism Allegations Probed By Feds
NEW YORK (JTA) — An investigation into an allegedly anti-Semitic incident at Rutgers University is being reopened by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. Kenneth Marcus, the department’s new assistant secretary for civil rights, wrote in a letter last week that a pro-Palestinian event at the New Jersey state school in January…
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Breaking News ‘It Made Me Want To Cry’: Ramaz Alumni React To Reports Of Sexual Abuse
NEW YORK (JTA) — When he was attending the Ramaz School in the early 2000s, David Ellenberg heard whispers that Albert Goetz, a math teacher, photographed the feet of female students. But Ellenberg was also skeptical of the Manhattan Jewish day school’s rumor mill. So when he heard about the photos, he said “it sounded…
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Fast Forward Worker Arrested For Sex Assault At Brooklyn’s Beth Elohim Synagogue
(JTA) — An employee at Congregation Beth Elohim, a Reform synagogue in Brooklyn, has been arrested for a sexual assault he committed in the synagogue building. The incident occurred on Saturday night, according to an email the synagogue’s leadership sent congregants on Thursday. The victim was not connected to the synagogue. “On Saturday night, August…
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Breaking News The ‘Bar Mitzvah Boy’ Going Up Against Catholic Clergy Abuse In Pennsylvania
(JTA) — The first days of November 2016 were a tense time for America, for Pennsylvania, and for Josh Shapiro, a Democrat running for attorney general in state that looked like it might go red. Looking to succeed a corrupt member of his own party who had resigned in disgrace, Shapiro might have been expected to…
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Breaking News One Of Trump’s Top Supporters Is Only 20 — And Jewish
NEW YORK (JTA) — If you scroll down the Twitter feed of Jacob Wohl, former teenage hedge fund manager and current pro-Donald Trump provocateur, you’ll see a stream of insults directed at Robert Mueller, liberals and a proposed plastic straw ban. And that was just Friday morning. To his 158,000 followers, Wohl, 20, describes himself…
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News How Fall Of Steven M. Cohen Could Change The Field Of Counting Jews
(JTA) — Over and over, across decades and cities throughout the United States, sociologist Steven M. Cohen painted a picture of American Jews using a consistent set of questions. How much do Jews love Israel? How many Jewish friends do they have? Do they attend a synagogue? Do they belong to one? Perhaps above all,…
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Breaking News Filipino Workers Migrate To Israel — And Decide To Convert To Judaism
TEL AVIV (JTA) — One of the biggest days of the year for Ronaldo and Bernadette Lopez is Christmas. They open up their Filipino restaurant in South Tel Aviv, and their friends bring their families, crowd the place and eat embutido, a rolled pork dish from their shared home country. But this year may be…
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News The Spanish Inquisition Was ‘Moderate’ Solution. So Says This Conservative Columnist.
(JTA) — Here’s something no one expected: A reputable conservative magazine has published a column defending … The Spanish Inquisition. To be clear, this is not Monty Python. This is a column in the National Review. Here’s the headline: “The Spanish Inquisition Was a Moderate Court by the Standard of Its Time.” Moderate? We’ll run down…
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