Ben Sales
By Ben Sales
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Fast Forward Sean Spicer’s Most Outrageous Jewish Moments
(JTA) — Sean Spicer has resigned his post as press secretary. According to some Jewish leaders, he should have quit three months ago. In his six months as President Trump’s mouthpiece, Spicer managed to get in two separate tiffs with Jewish leaders over the Holocaust, one which sparked calls for his job. For good measure,…
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Fast Forward Uganda’s Jews Are Down To One Meal A Day Amid Drought
(JTA) — Uganda’s 2,000 Jews have long maintained a modest existence. They live in the east of the country in a hilly, rural area that lacks paved roads, consistent electricity and running water. But this year, the situation for Uganda’s Jewish community, called the Abayudaya, has worsened. Twenty million people across Africa and the Middle East are…
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Fast Forward Chicago Dyke March Article Cost Me My Job, Reporter Says
NEW YORK (JTA) — The journalist who first reported the ejection of three Jewish women from Chicago’s Dyke March tweeted that she was removed from her reporting job because of that article. In a tweet Monday, Gretchen Rachel Hammond wrote to Dyke March’s Twitter account that “You attacked, humiliated and robbed me of a job.” Hammond…
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Fast Forward Why Were There No Women On The Chief Rabbinate’s ‘Blacklist’?
NEW YORK (JTA) – The Israeli Chief Rabbinate’s so-called “blacklist” of Diaspora rabbis runs the denominational gamut. The rabbis on the list, who got there by writing letters confirming the Jewish identities of immigrants that were rejected by the Chief Rabbinate in 2016, are Orthodox, Conservative, Reform — and even from the smaller Reconstructionist and…
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Fast Forward These Rabbis Have No Idea Why They’re On Rabbinate’s ‘Blackllist’
NEW YORK (JTA) — In 2012, Rabbi Jason Herman wrote a letter to Israel’s Chief Rabbinate certifying that a friend of his who wished to get married was Jewish and single. The letter was declared invalid. But several months later Herman, spiritual leader of the Orthodox West Side Jewish Center in Manhattan, obtained a license…
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Fast Forward Rabbinate Claims List Of Rabbis Whose Conversions Are Not Kosher Is Not A Blacklist
(JTA) — The Israeli Chief Rabbinate says that its list of foreign rabbis has been misconstrued, and that the list does not imply that those rabbis cannot be trusted to vouch for the Jewish identities of their followers. On Saturday, JTA reported on a list of some 160 rabbis whose efforts to confirm the Jewish identities of immigrants were rejected by Israel’s…
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Fast Forward Reporter Who Broke Chicago Dyke March Story Removed From Reporting Duties
(JTA) — The journalist who first reported the ejection of three Jewish women from the Chicago Dyke March has been stripped of her reporting duties. Gretchen Rachel Hammond, an award-winning reporter for the Windy City Times, a Chicago LGBT newspaper, has been moved full-time to the paper’s sales desk as of Monday. Hammond was the…
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Fast Forward Here Is The Chief Rabbinate’s ‘Blacklist’ Of 160 American Rabbis
(JTA) — The Israeli Chief Rabbinate has a list of some 160 rabbis it does not trust to confirm the Jewish identities of immigrants. To get married in Israel, immigrants must prove they are Jewish to the Chief Rabbinate, often via a letter by a congregational rabbi attesting to the immigrant’s Jewish identity. This list…
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