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 Ramah Rockies Campers Relocated To Nearby JCC Camp After Fire
Campers and staff members displaced after an overnight fire at a Jewish summer camp in Colorado have been relocated to a nearby JCC camp. The 130 campers of Ramah Rockies, along with their counselors, are now staying at nearby JCC Ranch Camp, another Jewish outdoor adventure camp. “While the campers are now in a new…
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Fast Forward WATCH: T-Shirt Company Introduces ‘The New Swastika’ In Video
A T-shirt design company has come under fire this week for creating -— and then defending —- clothing items that make use of the swastika symbol. As the company, KA Design, showed in this video, it wanted to make “the new swastika” so as to rid the symbol of its association with Nazism. “They took…
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Fast Forward Airbnb Deletes Accounts Of People Planning To Attend ‘Unite The Right’ Rally
Airbnb, the hospitality service that lets you stay in apartments and private homes instead of hotels, is deleting the accounts of people planning to attend a massive “alt-right” rally this weekend in Charlottesville, Va., Time reported. The Anti-Defamation League predicted that the “Unite the Right” rally, organized by white nationalists, could be “the largest public…
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News In Texas, Everything Is Bigger — Except The Separation Of Church And State
They say that everything is bigger in Texas. Not so for the separation of church and state. In that great state, the families of motorcyclists killed in traffic collisions can pay a fee of $350 to have a sign with their loved one’s name on it erected it at the scene. After one year, the…
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Fast Forward Traveling Anti-Circumcision ‘Intactivists’ Land In South Dakota
Anti-circumcision activists rolled into Sioux Fall, S.D., on Tuesday, waiving signs and chanting at the state’s busiest intersection. Members of the group Bloodstained Men And Their Friends yelled “Honk if you love foreskin!” and “Vote no on circumcision” as passing drivers responded with both encouragement and derision. “We are here to warn parents,” the group’s…
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Fast Forward Can Opponents Push ‘Alt-Right’ Leader Richard Spencer Out Of His Virginia Home?
Richard Spencer, a leader of the “alt-right” white nationalist movement, is an intractable presence on social media. He’s also seemingly intractable from his adopted home base of Alexandria, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, D.C. While activists have tried to push him out of his townhouse in Alexandria’s picturesque Old Town neighborhood, his landlord and City…
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Fast Forward Hollywood’s Original Blonde Bombshell Is The Daughter Of Holocaust Survivors
Angelyne — a legendary Hollywood figure for decades, perhaps the first to be famous for being famous, a self-described “Rorschach test in pink” — is the daughter of Holocaust survivors, was born in displaced-persons camp in Germany and was raised for a time in Israel, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Angelyne, whose career took off…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Stephen Miller Uses First Briefing To Argue Over The Statue Of Liberty
Presidential aide Stephen Miller, who despite his Jewish heritage has been repeatedly praised by former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke for his policy views, capped off his first appearance at the podium in the White House Briefing Room by getting in a long argument with CNN’s Jim Acosta about the Statue of Liberty and “cosmopolitan…
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