Ben Sales
By Ben Sales
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Fast Forward ‘Painful and deep’: Jewish nonprofits face dire economic prospects during and after coronavirus
NEW YORK (JTA) — Some 38,000 people work at Jewish community centers across North America, staffing preschools, camps, gyms, classes, activities for seniors and more. Because of the coronavirus crisis, a lot of them are going to lose their jobs. “The cuts are going to be painful and deep,” said Doron Krakow, CEO of the…
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Fast Forward 100 people test positive for coronavirus in hasidic Brooklyn neighborhood
(JTA) — At least 100 people have tested positive for the new coronavirus in Borough Park, a Hasidic neighborhood in Brooklyn. This story has been updated here. The number was confirmed by an official at Asisa, an urgent care clinic in the New York City neighborhood that caters to the Hasidic community. This gives me…
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Fast Forward Jewish summer camps are already preparing for coronavirus
(JTA) — As swine flu swept through the United States in the late spring of 2009, Jewish summer camps took some drastic measures. One set up a quarantined area where some 45 infected kids and counselors lived apart from the rest of the camp. Another took every camper’s temperature twice a day and sent children…
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Fast Forward Purim is a holiday for partying. This year, coronavirus makes things different.
(JTA) — Every Purim, Richard Roberts sponsors a party for more than 2,000 people in the heavily Orthodox New Jersey city of Lakewood, where he gives out, by his estimation, some $200,000 in charity. This year, because of the coronavirus, the party is cancelled. Roberts, a philanthropist and former pharmaceutical executive, made the decision Wednesday…
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Fast Forward Domestic extremists killed more than 400 people over the last decade, survey finds
(JTA) — Domestic extremists in the United States — most them from the far-right — killed 435 people in the decade that ended this past December. According to a new study by the Anti-Defamation League, half of those murders were committed to further the killer’s ideology. The other half were murders that were committed by…
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Fast Forward Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar will not attend AIPAC
(JTA) — Democratic presidential candidates Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg said they will not attend AIPAC’s annual conference because it overlaps with Super Tuesday. Their absence leaves former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg as the only Democratic candidate to confirm that he will speak at the prominent Israel lobby’s confab March 1-3 in Washington, D.C….
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Fast Forward Jersey City kosher supermarket reopening 2 months after deadly shooting
JERSEY CITY, N.J. (JTA) — Two months after his wife was murdered in the attack on this city’s only kosher grocery store, owner Moshe Ferencz was back behind the counter this week. The store, which has partially reopened in a new location, still doesn’t have regular hours. But the reopening signals an important moment for Jersey…
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Fast Forward Teenage Orthodox pingpong phenom may have to skip Olympics because trials are on Shabbat
(JTA) — An 18-year-old pingpong star may have to skip this year’s Olympics because the U.S. trials are scheduled for Shabbat and she is an Orthodox Jew. While many Orthodox Jews will informally play sports on Shabbat, they generally do not take part in organized competition. Estee Ackerman, who won the women’s division at the…
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