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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Fast Forward Poway Synagogue Rabbi Visited White House For National Prayer Day
Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, the rabbi of Chabad of Poway who survived the shooting at the synagogue, visited the White House Thursday for the National Day of Prayer, RNS reported. Goldstein called Trump “a mensch par excellence,” and spoke about how amazed he was to still be alive after the shooting, saying that he should have…
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Fast Forward California Governor Plans To Boost Funding To Help Secure Houses Of Worship
California Governor Gavin Newsom is proposing to earmark $15 million in his next budget to supporting security efforts at places of worship, the Los Angeles Times reported. The announcement came on the same day that Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, the rabbi injured in the attack on Chabad of Poway Saturday, said that increased support for funding…
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Fast Forward Poway Synagogue Wanted But Couldn’t Afford Armed Security Guards, Rabbi Said
Chabad of Poway, where three people were injured and one killed in a shooting Saturday, wanted armed security guards but couldn’t afford it, its rabbi told TIME Magazine. Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, whose hands were damaged during the attack, said that he had been fearful of an attack on his synagogue in the wake of the…
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News American Synagogues Can’t Keep The Doors Open Anymore, Experts Say After Poway
Two days after a 19-year-old white supremacist stormed a synagogue in California, security experts are calling on synagogues to guard their doors. That’s a bitter pill to swallow for many American synagogues, for which open doors have been all but an article of faith. But in the wake of two deadly synagogue attacks just six…
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News Now We Know What Happened: Poway’s Jews Defied Their Attacker, And He Fled
Saturday was the last day of Passover — one of the four times during the yearly cycle of holidays that Jews recite Yizkor, the prayer for the dead and for martyrs. There were several dozen people in attendance for the service at the Chabad of Poway, the only Orthodox synagogue in northern suburbs of San…
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Fast Forward ‘Terror Will Not Win’: Rabbi Shot In Poway Synagogue Attack Looks To Future
Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein has emerged from surgery shaken but hopeful for the future. Goldstein is the rabbi of the Chabad center in Poway where a gunman injured three and killed one woman, Lori Gilbert-Kaye. After Goldstein was shot in the hand, Gilbert-Kaye put herself between him and the gunman, and was immediately shot. She succumbed…
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Fast Forward Poway Synagogue Shooting Injured Two From Israeli Family From Sderot
Two of the three people injured in the Poway synagogue shooting are related. The young girl injured in the Poway synagogue shooting Saturday is the niece of the Israeli man who was injured shepherding several children to safety out of the sanctuary, according to the man’s brother. Almog Peretz, 34, managed to rush several chidren…
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Fast Forward Almog Peretz, Israeli Visiting Poway Synagogue, Saved Children’s Lives
This man is being called a hero. A friend says 34-year-old Almog Peretz saved children during today’s synagogue shooting in Poway. Hear the story tonight on @fox5sandiego pic.twitter.com/FKBIc9tcCL — Kristen Shanahan (@k_shan7) April 28, 2019 Almog Peretz, 34, had the training necessary to react quickly to a life-threatening emergency. He is Israeli, and is from…
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