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 Holocaust Survivor Skydives For The First Time At 89 — ‘I Loved It’
Elly Gotz, a Holocaust survivor, took to the skies earlier this month when he skydived for the first time, at 89 years old. Gotz, who was liberated from Dachau when he was 17, dropped from 13,000 feet in the air. “I’m very happy I did it,” Gotz told The Star shortly after landing in Cookstown,…
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Fast Forward Dov Charney Is Remaking American Apparel. Can He Remake Himself?
“We’re building, grooving, growing.” So says Dov Charney, the disgraced ex-CEO of American Apparel, in Bloomberg. But he’s not talking about American Apparel — the company liquidated its inventory after declaring bankruptcy a second time in January of this year. Charney has a new company — Los Angeles Apparel — and he’s using the same…
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Fast Forward Russia Scandal Mogul Puts New Jersey Mansion On Market For $7M — And That’s A Loss
Aras Agalarov, the billionaire whose pop star son has become embroiled in the Trump-Russia scandal, is selling his New Jersey mansion for $7 million, according to the New York Post. He bought the house for $8 million in 2007. The current price reportedly includes furniture. Agalarov is married to Irina Agalarova, who is Jewish. Emin…
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Fast Forward Where’s $100K Linda Sarsour Promised For Vandalized Jewish Cemetery?
On March 24, Muslim activists Linda Sarsour and Tarek El-Messidi promised to send $100,000 to a Jewish cemetery in Colorado that is in disrepair. Nearly three months later, the check has yet to arrive. Sarsour was one of the leaders of Muslims Unite To Repair Jewish Cemeteries, an initiative that began in February in order…
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Fast Forward Radiohead Frontman Releases Statement Condemning BDS
Thom Yorke, frontman of the groundbreaking rock group Radiohead, slammed the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement on Tuesday in a tweet. Yorke’s statement came in response to a tweet from Ken Loach, a British journalist who has repeatedly called for a cultural boycott of Israel. “Playing in a country isn’t the same as endorsing its…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Man Carves 30 Swastikas Into Wet Concrete On Brooklyn Sidewalk
An unidentified man was caught on camera carving dozens of swastikas into a sidewalk in Midwood, Brooklyn. Police in the area were alerted after property owners on on the 200 block of Newkirk Avenue reported the vandalism. A police spokesman did not say whether the NYPD’s Hate Crime Task Force was involved in the search….
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News Seth Rich’s Jewish Camp Counselor Remembers Him On Anniversary Of Murder
Rabbi Alex Freedman was speechless. As a new rabbi, he had not yet been in the situation of comforting mourners in deep distress. And now here he was, finding out that Seth Rich — his former camper, and a beloved member of Camp Ramah Wisconsin — had been murdered. What should he do? In the…
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Fast Forward Jewish ‘Alt-Right’ Woman Takes On Richard Spencer Amid Infighting
On June 26th, Richard Spencer, founder of the white nationalist National Policy Institute, and Laura Loomer, of “Julius Caesar” protest fame, presided over competing far-right rallies in the capital. Spencer has little regard for Loomer and her ilk, whom he likes to call “alt-light.” Loomer, who is Jewish, has called Spencer out for hating Jews….
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