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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News Jewish protesters blast shofar at rallies across the country
Rabbi Ariel Stone stood at the protest with a gas mask hanging around her neck, a megaphone in one hand and a shofar in the other. Gathering with the Portland Clergy Interfaith Resistance on Sunday, Stone, a longtime human rights advocate and leader of Portland’s Congregation Shir Tikvah, called for an end to the use…
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Fast Forward Trump’s ‘gift from God’ drug, espoused by Jewish doctor, does not prevent coronavirus: study
Hydroxychloroquine, the anti-malaria drug touted by President Donald Trump as a treatment for Covid-19 — and taken by him to prevent contracting the disease — does not prevent against coronavirus infection when taken prophylactically, a new study found. The study, published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, is the first double-blind, placebo-controlled study…
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News Black Jews to white Jews: Change your relationship with police
At protests across the country, marchers are holding up signs that read “Defund The Police.” On Tuesday, numerous celebrities, as well as the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, signed an open letter circulated by the national Movement 4 Black Lives group calling for money to be diverted from police budgets to fund…
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Fast Forward Rabbi Norman Lamm, longtime head of Yeshiva University, Dies At 92
NEW YORK (JTA) – Norman Lamm, the prolific author and Modern Orthodox rabbi who headed Yeshiva University for nearly three decades, died Sunday. He was 92. As president and chancellor of Y.U., Lamm helped rescue the institution from the financial brink in the late 1970s and rebuild it in the decades that followed into the…
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News Meet the (Jewish) mayor in the middle of the Minneapolis maelstrom
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey is at the center of the country’s most dire protests in years. Following the police killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black man arrested for apparently trying to make a purchase with a counterfeit bill, thousands of people have looted and burned buildings in Minneapolis and St. Paul, including a police…
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News Two marquee Reform synagogues are in merger talks – and they won’t be the last
Two historic Reform synagogues in New York announced Thursday that they are entering merger talks. One is embroiled in a financial crisis made more pressing by the pandemic; the other is growing, but faces a $2 million shortfall due to the economic impact of the coronavirus. In email messages sent to their congregations Thursday afternoon,…
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Fast Forward Judge rules East Ramapo school district disenfranchised Black and Latino voters
A federal judge ruled that a majority-Orthodox school board in the suburbs of New York City violated the Voting Rights Act and ordered it to adopt a new voting system before its next election in order to foster more equitable representation of the community’s Jewish, Black and Latino populations. In an almost total defeat for…
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Fast Forward Malka Leifer, facing 74 counts of child sexual abuse, fit to be extradited from Israel
A judge in an Israeli court has ruled that Malka Leifer, a former school principal who has been accused of sexual abuse by former students, is fit to be extradited from Israel to Australia, where the alleged abuses occurred, after six years of extradition hearings. Leifer, 53, is set to stand trial in Australia on…
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