Ben Sales / JTA Wire Service
March 5, 2018, 11:39 pm
U.S. will withdraw from Iran deal unless it is fixed soon, Pence tells AIPAC
"[M]ake no mistake about it: This is their last chance. Unless the Iran nuclear deal is fixed in the coming months, the United States of America will withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal.”
By Ben Sales / JTA Wire Service
White supremacists spar with counter-protesters as they attempt to guard the entrance to Emancipation Park in Charlottesville on August 12. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
August 17, 2017, 3:22 pm
A guide to the far-right groups that protested in Charlottesville
By Ben Sales / JTA Wire Service
People celebrate the 48th annual Gay and Lesbian Pride Parade on June 25, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois. / AFP PHOTO / Kamil Krzaczynski (Photo credit should read KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP/Getty Images)
June 27, 2017, 11:42 pm
LGBTQ Jews say it’s increasingly difficult to be pro-Israel and queer
The incident at the Dyke March was just the latest in a series of clashes over Israel at activist events for the Lesbian, Gay Bisexual and Transgender, or LGBT, community
By Ben Sales / JTA Wire Service
March 23, 2017, 3:23 pm
Jewish bomb threatener undermines groups’ narrative on Trump-related anti-Semitism
Will they double down or apologize?
By Ben Sales / JTA Wire Service
Rabbi Beth Naditch and her husband had already been talking to their children about anti-Semitism when bomb threats hit two of their sons’ schools the same morning. (Courtesy of Naditch)
March 14, 2017, 6:49 pm
At Jewish schools hit by bomb threats, trying to teach students just enough to cope
By Ben Sales / JTA Wire Service
The Albany Jewish Community Center closed briefly Wednesday morning after a bomb scare. (Screenshot from Twitter)
March 2, 2017, 7:38 pm
Jewish security group forms national law enforcement advisory council
By Ben Sales / JTA Wire Service
February 7, 2017, 7:44 am
18 rabbis arrested protesting Trump
Hosted by T’ruah, the rabbis’ human rights group, rabbis arrested for obstructing traffic in front of Trump hotel.
By Ben Sales / JTA Wire Service
Shimon Peres in Tel Aviv on November 30, 2015. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash 90)
September 27, 2016, 11:26 pm
Shimon Peres dies at 93 after life of leadership in Israel’s rebirth
Served in dozens of top posts, considered one of the founders of the state.
By Ben Sales / JTA Wire Service
August 25, 2016, 12:32 am
Jewish groups flood Baton Rouge with aid for victims
IsraAid, local Federations and more.
By Ben Sales / JTA Wire Service
BARCLAYS CENTER, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - 2016/07/28: The Jewish community in New York held a vigil and action in support of police accountability and the Movement For Black Lives. The organizers along with neighbors and advocacy groups met outside the Barclays Center in Brooklyn for an evening of singing, powerful speakers, ritual mourning and righteous anger. (Photo by Erik McGregor/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)
August 9, 2016, 7:47 pm
Black Lives Matter defends claim of Israeli ‘genocide’
Author of the platform says Israel's actions fit "wider definition"
By Ben Sales / JTA Wire Service
July 15, 2016, 1:34 pm
Grassroots pressure leads Rabbi Lookstein to cancel Republican Convention convocation
Online petitions and offline pressure culminate in Ivanka Trump's rabbi's request to be relieved of duties.
By Ben Sales / JTA Wire Service
January 31, 2016, 9:50 am
WATCH: Historic compromise at Jerusalem’s Western Wall
Historic victory for Jewish diversity of worship at Western Wall
By Ben Sales / JTA Wire Service
An Israeli Jews raises a flag near the Old City of Jerusalem. The number of Jewish residents in the Old City and predominantly Arab areas nearby has increased 40 percent since 2009. (Abir Sultan/Flash 90)
November 3, 2015, 8:31 pm
Eastern Jerusalem tense
Arabs and Jews hunker down there
By Ben Sales / JTA Wire Service
Migrants from Eritrea and Sudan protesting Israel's refusal to grant them refugee status outside the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv, Jan. 6, 2014. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
October 20, 2015, 4:49 pm
African migrants find danger where they sought safe haven
In wake of terror attack, Eritrean shot to death and then beaten by a mob
By Ben Sales / JTA Wire Service
In 2015, Buzz Aldrin visited Israel. In 1969, he visited the moon.
October 19, 2015, 3:47 pm
Buzz Aldrin comes to Israel
A visit to the International Astronautical Conference in Jerusalem
By Ben Sales / JTA Wire Service
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