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 [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @aefeldman.
Ari Feldman
By Ari Feldman
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Fast Forward Meet The Jewish Congresswoman Who’s Helping Turn The Tide On Impeachment
Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) joined the chorus of moderate Democrat voices that have begun calling for consideration of impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump. The latest calls for impeachment come after revelations that Trump allegedly tried to use withheld military aid as a means to pressure Ukraine into investigating Vice President Joe Biden and his family….
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Fast Forward Warren Cites Lessons Of Triangle Shirtwaist Fire In Her Largest Rally Ever
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire lives on — in the political rhetoric of Elizabeth Warren. On Monday evening, Warren held a 20,000-strong rally — her largest of the campaign — in New York City’s Washington Square Park, just two blocks from where the fire occurred 108 years ago. It remains one of the deadliest industrial…
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News Do American Jews Really Care About – Or Understand – Israel’s Elections?
On a typical evening after putting their daughter to bed, Dov Waxman and Stephanie Davidson will sit on the matching rocking chairs on their back porch and chat about what’s driving them nuts at work. One night last week Waxman, a professor of Israel studies at Northeastern University, was fretting over an op-ed he wants…
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Fast Forward Jewish Boarding School That Closed After Financial Struggles Will Reopen
Editor’s note: The original version of this article, published Sept. 13, as well as a prior one published Sept. 11, contained several significant errors, which the Forward regrets. This Sept. 18 update includes new information and removes the erroneous material; details about the errors are appended. The Sept. 11 article has been removed from our…
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Fast Forward American Hebrew Academy
Editor’s note, 9/18/19, 5:15 p.m.: The Forward has removed this article, published Sept. 11, after learning that it was based on an erroneous reading of public documents related to a loan agreement between American Hebrew Academy, a Jewish boarding school in North Carolina that announced its closure in June, and Puxin Limited, a Chinese educational…
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Fast Forward Former Strip Club In Tel Aviv Will Become Synagogue
A Tel Aviv strip club shut down after police raids repeatedly found prostitution and drugs will become the home for a spiritual community that will use the space as a synagogue, Israeli news outlets are reporting. The Pussycat Show Club took over a the widely known Colliseum building in Tel Aviv’s Atarim Square, near the…
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Fast Forward 7 Former Students Sue Day Schools For Suffering Abuse At Hands Of Jewish Educator
Seven people are suing Jewish day schools for employing Stanley Rosenfeld, an educator who they allege molested them, and who admitted to molesting hundreds of children over the course of his career. The schools include two of the three prominent Jewish academies that Rosenfeld taught at in New York City: Westchester Day School, in Mamaroneck;…
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Fast Forward Here’s Why The Professor Who Called Bret Stephens A Bed Bug Would Do It Again
On Wednesdays David Karpf teaches Strategic Political Communication. The class usually begins with students discussing recent instances of public figures making significant strategic communication mistakes. Possible grist for the mill — and this is just from white men — could have been Donald Trump’s flip-flopping statements on gun regulation or the trade war with China;…
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