Ben Sales
By Ben Sales
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Fast Forward Orthodox Rabbis Ban Borrowing From Quicken Loans — Because It’s Run By Jews
NEW YORK (JTA) — If you’re an Orthodox Jew with a mortgage from Quicken Loans, you might be in trouble. Agudath Israel of America, a major haredi Orthodox organization, issued a Jewish legal ruling last month prohibiting Jews from taking out loans from the Detroit-based company because it is majority-owned by Jews. Quicken Loans, which claims…
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Fast Forward ZOA Locked In Feud With Presidents Conference Groups
(JTA) — Three Jewish organizations are accusing the Zionist Organization of America of inappropriately criticizing them. And the ZOA is accusing one of them right back. On Wednesday, the various spats will have a formal hearing at a committee meeting of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish American Organizations, an umbrella association for Jewish…
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Fast Forward How Lynching Memorial Learned From Holocaust Commemoration
(JTA) — When Bryan Stevenson set out to build a memorial to the thousands of black people lynched in the United States, he thought about Germany and Poland. Those countries, where millions of Jews died at the hands of the Nazis, have made sure to preserve the memories of the victims — and the places…
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Fast Forward How The ADL Became A Villain To Some On The Left
(JTA) — When Starbucks announced that it would close its U.S. stores for one day to conduct anti-bias training for employees, seeking the expertise of the Anti-Defamation League seemed unsurprising. It’s the most prominent group in the country fighting anti-Semitism, and it also opposes bigotry of all kinds. Its website says it has conducted anti-bias…
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Israel News Israel At 70: How 1948 Changed American Jews
(JTA) — One year after Israel’s establishment, in the dead of night, three students ascended a tower at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York and raised the Israeli flag. The next morning, the Conservative rabbinical school’s administration took it down. That act of surreptitious Zionist protest was one of several at JTS during the…
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Fast Forward Mega-Donors Are Taking Over Jewish Philanthropy, New Study Says
NEW YORK (JTA) — Large donors and foundations are responsible for an increasing share of American Jewish giving, and are exercising greater influence on Jewish communal priorities than they were in previous generations, according to a new study. The mega-donor trend was quantified in the study of American Jewish philanthropy published March 8 by the…
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Fast Forward Thousands Protest Anti-Semitism In UK Labour Party
(JTA) — Approximately 2,000 people gathered outside the houses of Parliament in London to protest anti-Semitism in the British Labour Party. The protest Monday also criticized Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, whom British Jewish leaders have charged with enabling anti-Semitism in the party. Corbyn published a written apology ahead of the protest. Organized by Britain’s Jewish…
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Fast Forward Cynthia Nixon Gave A Shabbat Sermon In 2011 — And Praised Andrew Cuomo
(JTA) — Cynthia Nixon, the former “Sex and the City” star who just announced her campaign to be New York’s next governor, is hoping to win the votes of the state’s 20 million citizens. But the actor and political activist has already won the hearts of progressive Jewish leaders. Nixon isn’t Jewish herself, but she’s…
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