Ben Harris

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

From Ben Harris

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

By Ben Harris May 6, 2020 4:44 pm

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

By Ben Harris April 30, 2020 11:51 am

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

By Ben Harris April 29, 2020 11:45 am

Joe Biden

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

By Ben Harris April 29, 2020 11:10 am

Paul Shelden, 79, music educator who founded instrument company

By Ben Harris April 27, 2020 5:52 pm

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

By Ben Harris April 27, 2020 2:49 pm

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

By Ben Harris April 21, 2020 12:09 pm

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

By Ben Harris April 20, 2020 4:21 pm

John Adler, polymath descended from Hasidic royalty

By Ben Harris April 17, 2020 3:01 pm

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

By Ben Harris April 14, 2020 12:01 pm

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