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.
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By Ari Feldman
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News She revived this Cincinnati synagogue — but that’s not nearly enough for her
The board of Temple Sholom in a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio, was still reeling from the beginning of lockdown. Then, Rabbi Miriam Terlinchamp presented her big idea over Zoom: Take the synagogue’s entire $18,000 budget for the Jewish High Holidays and spend it on pre-recorded Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services — and get the…
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Fast Forward 4 students test positive for coronavirus at Ramaz, elite NYC Jewish prep school
The Ramaz School, a Jewish prep school on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, is going virtual after four students tested positive for coronavirus. In an email to the school’s community Sunday and viewed by the Forward, the school said that two juniors and two seniors from “multiple different communities and locations” tested positive, and that they…
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Fast Forward Alvin Kass, long-serving NYPD rabbi, mugged on Upper West Side
NYPD Chief Chaplain Rabbi Alvin Kass was mugged near his home on Manhattan’s Upper West Side early Tuesday morning, the New York Post reported. Kass, 84, was confronted by a man saying he was hungry, who went into Kass’ pockets. The assailant grabbed Kass’ wallet, but it dropped to the ground, and the assailant left…
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News ‘Prosecute killer cops’ or ‘F*ck the Jew, kill the cop’? Misheard BLM chant shared by extremist Jewish group’s leader
“Fuck the Jew, kill the cop.” That’s what Meir HaLevi Weinstein suggested Los Angeles protesters were shouting on Sunday. They were really chanting, “Prosecute killer cops” — a common protest chant. Weinstein — self-proclaimed leader of the North America wing of the Jewish Defense League, a militant organization that has been designated a hate group…
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Fast Forward Trump campaign has accepted at least $2,000 from leader of neo-Nazi group ‘Aryan Nations’
Morris Gulett, leader of a Louisiana chapter of the neo-Nazi group the Aryan Nations, has donated at least $2,000 to Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign — and the campaign has not returned any of the money. Gulett made 29 separate donations from 2017 through May 2020, according to recent election filings reviewed by Popular Information. He…
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Fast Forward Biden calls fire at Delaware Chabad center ‘deeply disturbing,’ linking it to rising antisemitism
A fire set at the Chabad center at the University of Delaware on Tuesday night has been declared an act of arson. An unknown person set the blaze around 11 p.m. that night, according to fire officials in Newark, Del. None of the family members who oversee the the center were present, and no one…
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Fast Forward Amid mohel-less lockdown, New Zealand man circumcises own son
A Jewish couple in New Zealand decided to perform a ritual circumcision on their son themselves, after determining that the country’s travel restrictions would make getting a mohel to fly in for the procedure impossible. Noam and Elisheva Fogel waited five months to conduct the circumcision ceremony, called a brit milah or a bris, which…
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News At RNC, Jewish Congressman Lee Zeldin extolls Trump’s ‘phenomenal’ coronavirus response
Rep. Lee Zeldin, a Jewish Republican representing eastern Long Island, N.Y., spoke at the Republican National Convention Wednesday evening, praising front-line medical workers and repeating the convention’s theme: That Americans must reelect Trump “to make our country greater than ever before.” Zeldin also praised the president’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. “During a once-in-a-century pandemic,…
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