Ari Feldman is a staff writer at the Forward. He covers Jewish religious organizations, synagogue life, anti-Semitism and the Orthodox world. If you have any tips, you can email him at feldman@forward.com. Follow him on Twitter @aefeldman.
Ari Feldman
By Ari Feldman
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News Scenes from ‘ground zero’: inside New Rochelle’s coronavirus containment zone
Patrick Vecchio was delivering kosher Chinese food to Jews quarantined in their homes in New Rochelle Tuesday afternoon when he heard the news: He was smack in the middle of the “containment zone” — a one-mile radius around an Orthodox synagogue in this New York suburb. Schools, places of worship and other large gathering areas…
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News Orthodox Jews under quarantine yearn to reunite, gather online in the meantime
In another year, this would be a scene from a Purim spiel, the goofy plays put on for the Jewish holiday where costumes, debauchery and satire reign: Dozens of teenage yeshiva students, racing around a New York City suburb in Ubers. They stop at Jewish houses where people are under quarantine, and speed-read all 10…
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News ‘It’s a new era’: Yeshiva University’s basketball team is steamrolling into March Madness
After over five years of dating, Miriam Wallach’s daughter and her boyfriend got engaged. But in their families, where support for Yeshiva University’s basketball team is as much a pillar of the faith as Torah and daily prayer, they made just one mistake. They got engaged on game night. Among Yeshiva’s superfans, it was a…
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Fast Forward Hotel that asked Yeshiva University’s basketball team to leave over coronavirus has Jewish owners
A Baltimore-area hotel that asked the basketball team of Yeshiva University, which has one confirmed student infected with coronavirus, to spend the night before their first playoff game at another hotel has Jewish owners, according to a statement from hotel management. The DoubleTree in Pikesville, a heavily Orthodox suburb of Baltimore, called the Yeshiva team…
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News Five new New York coronavirus cases are from Jewish New Rochelle family
New York’s five new cases of coronavirus come from a Jewish family in Westchester County whose three children attend a Jewish day school, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo told reporters Wednesday. The father of the family is friends with New York’s second confirmed case of coronavirus, a 50-year-old lawyer from New Rochelle. The lawyer is…
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News Jewish man’s coronavirus diagnosis spurs quarantine; shutdown of school, synagogue
Coronavirus has arrived — not only in New York, but in the city’s Jewish schools. Three day schools in the New York area announced Tuesday they would be closed for at least a day after a Jewish Westchester man was hospitalized with what public officials described as a “serious” coronavirus infection. The man, who authorities…
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Fast Forward Yeshiva University reports student is son of man infected with coronavirus
A Yeshiva University student is the son of a man infected with coronavirus, the school reported Tuesday afternoon. The student, who has not been on campus since February 27, is in self-quarantine and is showing symptoms, which are being monitored. The student is the son of a Westchester man who was hospitalized in “serious condition”…
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News East Ramapo trial judge accuses board member of lying on the stand
The judge in the East Ramapo voting-rights trial accused a key witness of lying on the stand Thursday, leading the school district’s lawyer to suggest that the case was all but lost and sending it into uncharted territory as testimony is slated to wrap up soon. The heated outburst came during testimony by Harry Grossman,…
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