Pesach Benson, at The Blogs

Pesach Benson

Jan 1, 2021, 12:02 AM

COVID-19 imperils local Jewish media. That’s bad news for everyone

The Jewish Advocate sits on a shelf in the window of Israel Book Shop, Inc. on Harvard Avenue in Brookline, MA, on March 2, 1997. (Pat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe via Getty Images/File)

As papers close, I worry about 'news black holes,' where local journalism cannot serve its role as a watchdog or fill the niche Jewish needs that mainstream media cannot meet

Aug 31, 2020, 10:41 PM

Time for the Jews to leave the US?

I presume it was curiosity that drew my grandmother to a Berlin political rally where a rising figure named Adolf Hitler spoke. Her job as a secretary to the Consul General of Austria in Montreal made my “Omama” sensitive...

May 3, 2017, 1:02 PM

Of Souls and Space Suits

In the last few weeks before my father passed away, I frequently found myself thinking about souls and space suits. Our bodies can't survive in the vacuum of outer space, where there's no air pressure, oxygen or water. We need...

About Me

Pesach Benson, a Baltimore native living in Jerusalem, is former deputy managing editor of HonestReporting.com and was a reporter for the Baltimore Jewish Times.