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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 431

Ben Harris

Ben Harris

Nechama Tec (left)who wrote the 1993 book “Defiance: The Bielski Partisans” was adapted for a 2008 film directed by Edward Zwick starring Daniel Craig (right). (Jewish Women's Archive via JTA)
August 10, 2023, 12:40 am
Nechama Tec, Holocaust survivor whose book inspired the film ‘Defiance,’ dies at 92
Historian’s account of the Bielski partisans brought their successful fight against the Nazis to light, and was adapted into 2008 movie starring Daniel Craig
By Andrew Silow-Carroll and Ben Harris
Rabbi Harold Kushner gives an interview aired November 26, 2004. (PBS screen grab used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
April 29, 2023, 12:54 pm
Rabbi Harold Kushner, author of ‘When Bad Things Happen to Good People,’ dies at 88
Influential congregational leader wrote bestselling theological guide after his son was diagnosed with fatal premature aging condition progeria
By Ben Harris and PHILISSA CRAMER
Covers of the 72-year-old Jewish Currents magazine. (JTA collage)
December 24, 2021, 1:44 am
Leftist US Jewish magazine apologizes for running Israel fellowship ad
Jewish Currents says paid spot for Dorot Fellowship leadership training program ‘not in line with values’ to report on Israeli rights abuses, mocked for stance
By Ben Harris
Illustrative image of a brit mila in Jerusalem, December 12 , 2011. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 11, 2021, 4:10 am
New US Jewish group aims to normalize not circumcising, wants synagogues to help
Bruchim says it is giving a voice to those who seek other ways to join the Jewish covenant; retorts a Conservative rabbi: Brit milah ‘is about as basic to Judaism as you can get’
By Ben Harris
Images of Andres Levine, Ilan Naibryf and Deborah Berezdivin, three of the Jewish victims of the Surfside building collapse, in center among other photographs of those missing posted at a makeshift memorial on the building site in Surfside, Fla., June 26, 2021. (Andrea Sarcos/AFP)
July 2, 2021, 4:58 am
These are the Jewish victims of the Surfside building collapse
Among those confirmed killed or missing are several members of the area’s vibrant Jewish community, including newlyweds, grandparents and multi-generational families
By Ben Harris and Shira Hanau
Rabbi Stephen Slater at the entrance of Temple Beth-El in Birmingham, Alabama. (Kim Eriksson/ via JTA)
May 31, 2021, 4:40 am
Rabbi Stephen Slater credits his Baptist missionary parents for his spirituality
While he’s not the only Jew by choice serving as a pulpit rabbi, he’s the only one whose parents spent decades bringing Jesus to the Ivory Coast — and his devotion reflects it
By Ben Harris
Alex Kohanski began using gender-neutral pronouns on their first day of the Adamah Jewish farming fellowship. (Courtesy of Kohanski)/ via JTA
February 27, 2021, 3:07 am
Transgender Jews in the US find a safe haven in an unexpected place: The farm
17-year-old Jewish farm fellowship Adamah says since its inception at least 10% of participants have changed pronouns over the course of the program
By Ben Harris
Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski, Hasidic rabbi and psychiatrist specializing in substance abuse, June 19, 1990, (Steve Christo/ Fairfax Media via Getty Images/ JTA)
January 31, 2021, 11:16 pm
Abraham Twerski, renowned Hasidic rabbi and psychiatrist, dies at 90 of COVID
Prolific author, noted Judaic scholar and recognized authority on substance abuse succumbs to virus in Israel
By Shira Hanau and Ben Harris
Raphael Gribetz at his home in Presque Isle, Maine. (Janine Strong/ via JTA)
January 25, 2021, 3:42 am
A suffering formerly Orthodox artist spreads a Jewish spark in northern Maine
Since 1985, New York native Raphael Gribetz has brought art, music, and religion to Presque Isle, a small town bordering Canada. But, he says, his troubles continue to follow him
By Ben Harris
Rick Doblin is a leading advocate for the use of MDMA in psychotherapy. A clinical trial he championed produced favorable results this year. (Ben Harris/ illustration by Grace Yagel/ JTA)
November 29, 2020, 6:05 am
Jewish psychedelics reformer Rick Doblin wants to see therapeutic MDMA legalized
Head of nonprofit psychedelics research center MAPS celebrates phase 3 trial results showing Ecstasy can treat PTSD; says tripping was better rite of passage than his bar mitzvah
By Ben Harris
Rabbi Art Green. (Hebrew College/ via JTA)
November 22, 2020, 6:10 am
Rabbi Art Green says the Hasidism that lasts finds sparks of holiness everywhere
At 79, the scholar focuses on his legacy, loving one’s neighbor, and his forthcoming translation of 18th-century ‘Light of the Eyes,’ to cap a busy decade of making meaning
By Ben Harris
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks speaks at a press conference announcing his winning of the 2016 Templeton Prize, in London, March 2, 2016. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
October 16, 2020, 3:53 am
Former UK chief rabbi Jonathan Sacks says he is being treated for cancer
Prominent Jewish spiritual leader and author says he is receiving treatment from ‘excellent medical team’; he has been treated for cancer twice before
By Ben Harris
Illustration using ShulCloud logo. (Getty Images; illustration by Laura E. Adkins/via JTA)
October 1, 2020, 11:17 am
Tech firm blamed for Yom Kippur outage that left homebound US worshipers in dark
Shul Cloud, the biggest name in online Jewish worship, admits mistakes after system failed to deliver online prayer services for synagogues on ‘biggest day of year’
By Ben Harris
Artist, Marilee Asher Shapiro, in her home on November 11, 2015. (Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post via JTA)
September 30, 2020, 11:24 pm
Marilee Shapiro Asher, artist who survived pandemics century apart, dies at 107
Sculptor made national headlines in May after surviving COVID-19, despite doctors telling family she had hours to live; over century earlier, she recovered from 1918 Spanish flu
By Ben Harris
Flowers and notes are left outside of the US Supreme Court to mourn the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, September 21, 2020. (Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images/ via JTA)
September 22, 2020, 2:52 pm
Does RBG’s Rosh Hashanah death really make her a ‘tzadik’?
Viral tweet by NPR reporter Nina Totenberg hours after beloved Justice’s death Friday claims ‘God held her back until the last moment.’ But does this runaway idea have Jewish legs?
By Ben Harris
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