Ben Harris Email RSS

is JTA's former associate editor.

Latest

  • Jewish rebirth in the Delta

    July 22, 2013 1:36pm

    Helena, Ark., was down to its last half-dozen Jews before Doug Friedlander arrived as a Teach For America volunteer. Today he is the director of the county Chamber of Commerce.

  • Is the shidduch crisis just the fault of picky dudes?

    July 19, 2013 8:57am

    Orthodox Jews have lamented the so-called shidduch crisis for years. But is it really just the fault of guys who don’t want to date older women?

  • Kashrus interruptus: Certifier pulls out

    July 18, 2013 11:55pm

    Sorry kosher sex fans. But the rabbinical group that was set to certify Wet personal lubricants as kosher has pulled out.

  • Riots in Jerusalem

    July 18, 2013 11:41am

    Watch video of attacks reportedly on Jewish cars near Jerusalem’s Old City.

  • Who doesn’t love a Holocaust memorial?

    July 18, 2013 11:28am

    Richard Finan didn’t think the Ohio State House was an appropriate venue for a Holocaust memorial. But what he did next is unlikely to help his cause.

  • EU guidelines — read them here

    July 17, 2013 1:21pm

    JTA has obtained a copy of the new EU guidelines on the West Bank, Gaza, Golan Heights and eastern Jerusalem. Read em’ for yourself:

  • Opposing gay marriage is opposing love

    July 17, 2013 10:58am

    One comes to understand many things after 97 years of life. Here’s one: Sex may fade, but love …. that’s forever. So says Issur Danielovitch, the man better known to the world as the nonagenarian actor Kirk Douglas.

  • Goat love

    July 10, 2013 3:40pm

    Sarah Chandler, the director of earth based spiritual practice at the Isabella Freedman retreat center in Connecticut, gets swamped by a herd of goats that seem to really love her hair.

  • If not the blacks, the Jews

    July 9, 2013 11:39am

    Fresh off President Obama’s South Africa, and as the world still holds its breath for Nelson Mandela, Roger Cohen offers a reminiscence on the attitudes of South Africa’s Jews during apartheid.

  • Mandela family’s message to Jews

    July 1, 2013 10:16am

    The family of the ailing South African leader thanks the Jewish community for its love and support.