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Ben Harris

@JTABenHarris

Reporter / Editor @JTA @MJL @70Faces

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Joined August 2009
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From @JTABenHarris, a trip up to "the county" at the northern edge of Maine, where an Orthodox-born outsider artist sculpts the crucifixion. jta.org/2021/01/08/culture/a…
At the northern tip of Maine, this artist fostered a Jewish community. It couldn't help him escape...

At the northern tip of Maine, this artist fostered a Jewish community. It couldn't help him escape...

“I guess I’m a purist,” says Raphael Gribetz, who left behind the trauma of his Jewish New York roots. “But I’ve suffered. And I continue to suffer.”

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if your conservative synagogue is streaming services this weekend, you might have this guy to thank: jta.org/2020/09/18/united-st…
How 1 Zoom employee saved High Holidays streaming for 300 synagogues, including his own - Jewish...

How 1 Zoom employee saved High Holidays streaming for 300 synagogues, including his own - Jewish...

Mitch Tarica was instrumental in getting the streaming service to make a small but crucial tweak to its software to get Rosh Hashanah services online without breaking Jewish law.

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If Kanye can do it ...
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Zuckerberg smokes as Rome burns
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Whatever happens to the world after this, we'll always have this video
At 5 today I'm MCing this. And no, I won't be wearing a head band. See you soon @peterhimmelman
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A bunch of synagogues are holding socially distanced, masked, outdoor prayer services. But if you want to attend you have to sign away your right to sue if you catch a virus. Discuss. jta.org/2020/07/14/united-st…
Want to pray with a synagogue minyan? Sign this COVID-19 waiver first. - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Want to pray with a synagogue minyan? Sign this COVID-19 waiver first. - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Many synagogues hosting small, in-person prayer services are requiring congregants to sign away their right to sue if they catch the coronavirus.

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I don't often write stuff like this but something about @RabbiZsolt on facebook these past few months moved me. jta.org/2020/05/26/global/ra…
I started watching this German rabbi praying alone early in the pandemic, and I couldn't stop -...

I started watching this German rabbi praying alone early in the pandemic, and I couldn't stop -...

Rabbi Zsolt Balla, praying alone in Leipzig, is all of us this pandemic spring.

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my colleagues have prevailed on me to end my 9+ year twitter silence on the occasion of the publication of this yesterday. you're welcome, people. jta.org/2020/05/06/united-st…
She survived the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic and COVID-19. What is this 107-year-old's secret? -...

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

Marilee Shapiro Asher is still a working artist and was due to have a solo exhibition later this month at a gallery in Washington, D.C.

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Reb Zalman’s Greatest Hits http://bit.ly/dEBb4E
Judaism Without Jews http://bit.ly/gElB14
So, Madrid http://bit.ly/eTLyHD
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Purim en Barcelona http://bit.ly/eIkiV0
In the Belly of the Beast http://bit.ly/f7Ofxu
La Manifestation http://bit.ly/gQzaxD
At the Quai d’Orsay http://bit.ly/fcJOFX
Generation Limmud http://bit.ly/egfpXX
Remembering the Holocaust in Sofia http://bit.ly/g8a7QL
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Blessed Hands http://bit.ly/gTdoTK
Milking it with Hazon http://bit.ly/ePcAtn
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Video of TWJ milking a goat from #Hazon2010FC -- http://bit.ly/dHLCWu
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