Ben Sales
Thousands of demonstrators showed up in support of Israel on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., Nov. 14, 2023. (Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)
November 16, 2023, 9:59 am
‘The world can see that we are together’
March for Israel attendees say they delivered a powerful message
By Ben Sales and Jackie Hajdenberg
September 10, 2021, 8:59 am
This four million dollar machzor could be yours
By Ben Sales
September 8, 2021, 7:58 pm
‘Jew’ in the sky with questions
By Ben Sales
California State Sen. Scott Wiener said his Jewish identity has made him a target before, and he pointed to President Trump’s leadership as a factor. (Randy Shropshire/Getty Images)
September 9, 2020, 7:38 pm
A California state senator is facing anti-Semitic and homophobic attacks
Also, death threats
By Ben Sales
An SAR student studies Talmud via livestream. (Courtesy of SAR Academy)
March 12, 2020, 11:16 am
How SAR switched to online learning during its coronavirus closure
By Ben Sales
A crowd of Orthodox Jews gathers outside Rabbi Chaim Rottenberg’s house. (Photos by Ben Sales)
December 31, 2019, 6:00 pm
After stabbing on Chanukah, Monsey’s Orthodox Jews defiant, searching answers
By Ben Sales
December 31, 2019, 3:07 pm
The Jews who defined the 2010s
By Ben Sales, Gabe Friedman, Laura Adkins, Josefin Dolsten, Shannon Sarna, Cnaan Liphshiz, Ron Kampeas and Marc Brodsky
August 15, 2019, 10:01 am
Bill de Blasio campaigns in Yiddish to save faltering presidential bid
By Ben Sales
Hundreds of people protest outside an ICE facility in Elizabeth that was organized by a new Jewish group called Never Again Action on June 30, 2019. (Screenshot from Facebook)
July 4, 2019, 9:57 am
36 Jewish protesters arrested at ICE detention center in New Jersey
By Ben Sales
Rabbi Mordechai Shain, left, and L’via Weisinger
April 4, 2019, 9:52 am
Opposition to measles vaccine persists in local community
Why Orthodox communities are at the center of a measles outbreak
By Ben Sales
Benny Gantz, left, is challenging Benjamin Netanyahu in the upcoming Israeli elections. (Wikimedia Commons/Getty Images)
March 21, 2019, 9:45 am
Explaining Netanyahu’s shifting views on a Palestinian state of some sort
By Ben Sales
Farley Weiss, president of the National Council of Young Israel, stands next to the text of the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995. (Farley Weiss)
March 7, 2019, 11:45 am
How partisan politics are dividing an Orthodox synagogue movement
By Ben Sales
Noah Solomon (right) and Rabbi Naftali Citron sing chasidic melodies at the closing of a conference on Kabbalah at the Marlene Meyerson JCC in Manhattan on Sunday, January 27. (Ben Sales)
January 31, 2019, 11:40 am
Kabbalah finds a home in Judaism between the mystics and Madonna
By Ben Sales
Bernie Madoff enters federal court in New York on March 12, 2009. (Stephen (Chernin/Getty Images)
December 27, 2018, 11:45 am
10 years ago, Bernie Madoff’s deceit rocked the American Jewish world
Here’s what happened to his victims
By Ben Sales
Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau, second from left; Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, third from left; and Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau at a special meeting of the Israeli Rabbinate Council at the Western Wall tunnels in Jerusalem’s Old City on May 24, 2017. (Shlomi Cohen/Flash90)
November 29, 2018, 11:40 am
The Orthodox-only rabbis Israel trusts to perform conversions
By Ben Sales
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