Ben Sales

@BenjaminSales

Ben Sales is a reporter for JTA covering religion, politics, culture, society and economics. A graduate of Washington University in St. Louis and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, he is the former editor-in-chief of New Voices, the national Jewish student magazine.

From Ben Sales

Joseph Gluck, who threw a coffee table at the attacker's head Saturday night, speaks to reporters the next day outside the rabbi's house. (Ben Sales)

After a machete stabbing on Hanukkah, Monsey’s Orthodox Jews are defiant but searching for answers

By Ben Sales December 29, 2019 7:09 pm

Netanyahu easily wins Likud party primary

By Ben Sales December 26, 2019 5:04 pm

Rapper Kodak Black performs onstage at Banc of California Stadium in Los Angeles on December 15, 2018. (Scott Dudelson/Getty Images)

Rapper Kodak Black donates $1,000 to Orthodox synagogue from prison

By Ben Sales December 26, 2019 2:52 pm

Damaged graves following a winter storm at the Jewish cemetery in Beirut. (Anwar Amro/Getty Images)

Flood damages Beirut’s only Jewish cemetery

By Ben Sales December 26, 2019 12:39 pm

Rabbi Moshe Z. Schapiro shows a toy to a child during the charity drive in Jersey City on December 23, 2019. (Courtesy of Benny Polatseck)

2 weeks after deadly shooting, blacks and Jews in Jersey City unite for holiday charity drive

By Ben Sales December 24, 2019 4:17 pm

Students in an 8th grade Hebrew class at Alan B. Shepard Middle School in Deerfield, Ill. write a Hebrew screenplay together on Dec. 13. (Ben Sales)

Hebrew language classes in public schools are rare — but they’re on the rise in Chicago’s suburbs

By Ben Sales December 23, 2019 3:24 pm

The Jewish Neighborhood Development Council has pushed through a number of urban renewal projects in West Rogers Park, such as turning an abandoned parking lot (left) into a park (right). (Courtesy of Howard Rieger)

The rise, fall and rise again of a historically Jewish Chicago neighborhood

By Ben Sales December 19, 2019 3:03 pm

Friday night prayers at the Union for Refrom Judaism Biennial featured a 78-person choir and screens projecting the words of the service. (Rob Dicker/Union for Reform Judaism)

Inside the biggest American Shabbat service of the year

By Ben Sales December 17, 2019 3:54 pm

Beverly Hills synagogue vandalized on Shabbat

By Ben Sales December 15, 2019 5:09 pm

Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, speaks about combating racism at the Reform Biennial in Chicago on December 12, 2019. (Courtesy of the Union for Reform Judaism)

Reform Jewish movement votes to support reparations for African-Americans

By Ben Sales December 13, 2019 12:34 pm

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