Ben Harris

is the managing editor of My Jewish Learning, where a version of this essay first appeared.

From Ben Harris

United States

She survived the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic and COVID-19. What is this 107-year-old’s secret?

By Ben Harris May 6, 2020

Bonds of Life

Benjamin Schaeffer, 58, hero subway conductor who battled transit authority over Jewish holiday

By Ben Harris April 30, 2020

Global

Coronavirus-free South African nursing home says Kaddish, names babies for those under lockdown

By Ben Harris April 29, 2020

Joe Biden

United States

Biden would keep US Embassy in Jerusalem, his foreign policy adviser says

By Ben Harris April 29, 2020

Bonds of Life

Paul Shelden, 79, music educator who founded instrument company

By Ben Harris April 27, 2020

Bonds of Life

Ernest Einzig, 97, Purple Heart winner who left behind over 100 descendants

By Ben Harris April 27, 2020

Bonds of Life

Noach Dear, 66, former New York City councilman and State Supreme Court judge

By Ben Harris April 21, 2020

Bonds of Life

Salomon Podgursky, 84, lived a life of resilience after the Holocaust

By Ben Harris April 20, 2020

Bonds of Life

John Adler, polymath descended from Hasidic royalty

By Ben Harris April 17, 2020

Bonds of Life

Rabbi A. Bruce Goldman, 84, antiwar gadfly unafraid of flouting Jewish mainstream

By Ben Harris April 14, 2020

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