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 Engine Failure Forces Javanka’s Trump-Owned Helicopter To The Ground
Engine malfunction forced a helicpter carrying Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner to the ground last week, law enforcement officials told CNN. The couple was flying from Washington, D.C. to New York when on the engines on their twin-engine helicopter, owned by the Trump Organiation, failed, forcing a quick landing. The couple ended up taking a…
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Fast Forward Weinstein Company Files For Bankruptcy, Will Void Nondisclosure Agreements
The Weinstein Company, once led by Harvey and his brother Bob Weinstein, is filing for bankruptcy after Harvey Weinstein was fired in October over numerous reports that he sexually assaulted and raped several women, the New York Times reported. Weinstein has also become infamous for having many women whom he sexually harassed or assaulted sign…
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Fast Forward Mark Zuckerberg In Hot Seat After Facebook’s Data Misuse Exposed
Pressure is mounting on Mark Zuckerberg to speak publicly about Facebook’s alleged misuse of personal data about over 50 million users, Bloomberg Technology reported. Facebook recently admitted that it allowed the data to be used offline by Cambridge Analytica, the political research firm founded by Stephen K. Bannon and Republican mega-donor Robert Mercer. The data…
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Fast Forward Jared Kushner’s Business Confirms Qatari Meeting Held After Inauguration
Jared Kushner’s family’s business, Kushner Companies, acknowledged Sunday that Kushner’s father met with Qatari officials to seek financing three months after Donald Trump’s inauguration, the Washington Post reported. Charles Kushner said that he turned down financing from Qatari’s finance minister because it may have presented a conflict of interest for Jared Kushner, an aide to…
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Fast Forward Feinstein Tells CIA To Declassify Docs About Haspel’s Torture Involvement
Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) is calling on the CIA to declassify any documents that show how Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the CIA, Gina Haspel, tried to destroy evidence of torture, the Washington Post reported. Feinstein, a senior member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, told the CIA in a letter that the committee needs to see…
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Fast Forward Video Shows Israeli Soccer Player Sexually Assaulting Unconscious Woman
A video apparently shows an Israeli soccer player sexually assaulting an unconscious woman, the Jewish Chronicle reported. Antony Varenne, a forward for Beitar Jerusalem, can be seen in the video performing sex acts on the woman, who was passed out. He and other men in the video appear to be mocking her. The other men…
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News 23andMe’s Cool Update Does Bupkis For Most Ashkenazi Jews
Many Ashkenazi Jews know only a few basic geographical facts about their ancestors: They came from Poland, but when it was Russia. Their great-grandparents hailed from Bulgaria — or was it Romania? A number of Jews have turned to direct-to-consumer ancestry services like 23andMe and Ancestry.com for better answers, but they have gotten nowhere. This…
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Fast Forward Seth Rich’s Parents Sue Fox News, Say Network ‘Intentionally Exploited’ Murder
The parents of the murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich are suing Fox News over their coverage of his death, claiming the network “intentionally exploited” the story as political cannon fodder, the Washington Post reported. In May 2017, nearly a year after Rich’s unsolved murder in Washington, D.C., Fox News claimed to have evidence that Rich…
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