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 Meet Jay Sekulow, A Jewish-Born Believer In Jesus, On Trump’s Legal Team
President Donald Trump welcomed an unlikely darling of the Christian right to his inner circle of defenders in mid-June. Attorney Jay Sekulow, the newest addition to Trump’s personal legal defense team, has been accused of fraud in the past. He has put his family in charge of his organizations. And he has been instrumental in…
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Fast Forward Brooklyn Activists: Building With Big Apartments Designed for Ultra-Orthodox
The plans for a 1,146-unit apartment complex in South Williamsburg have reopened a debate within the neighborhood’s diverse community over who gets the best affordable housing. Some residents fear that the Rabsky Group’s eight-building development will have a sizable number of multi-bedroom apartments — a layout that they say privileges large ultra-Orthodox families over smaller…
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Fast Forward Israeli Scientists Can Now Read ‘Invisible’ Words On Ancient Pottery
Talk about photogenic: A group of Israeli scientists has engineered a way to read hidden writing on 2,500-year-old pottery shards using a modified digital camera. The shards, which date to the First Temple period, were discovered in the 1960s near the Dead Sea. They were once pored over by scholars looking for still-visible words and…
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Israel News Ultra-Orthodox Leftists Gain Visibility — If Not Traction In Community
It’s not just for secular lefties anymore: the 50th anniversary of the Six Day War has given a public soapbox to ultra-Orthodox Jews who are critical of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank. Eli Bitan, 26, has become the public face of this group, whose visibility is rapidly growing. In the past few years,…
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Fast Forward Israel’s First Female Ultra-Orthodox El Al Pilot Flies Bibi To Greece
El Al’s first female ultra-Orthodox pilot was at the helm on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s flight this morning to Greece for a tristate summit with leaders of Greece and Cyprus. She snapped several pictures with the Netanyahu and his wife Sara Netanyahu. Nechama Spiegel Novak, who was first officer on this morning’s flight, was the…
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Fast Forward Meet The Jew-Turned-Evangelical Who Boosted Bob Mueller Firing Rumor
President Trump just welcomed another unlikely darling of the Christian right with a history of jilted business partners and employees. The newest member of the president’s personal legal team used to be a Jew. His name is Jay Sekulow and you should know who he is. A Messianic Jew Sekulow, 61, converted in college after…
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Food Meet The Wannabe Pastrami King of Tuscany
Gianluca Tonelli, the putative pastrami king of Tuscany, has the blues. Despite his passion, despite the klezmer blaring from his food truck, and despite the adorable porkpie hat on his head, he can’t seem to get his fellow Italians to eat the meat. As the New York Times reported, even as other street foods have…
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Fast Forward Historian Jonathan Sarna Warns Of ‘Backlash’ For Jews Over Kushner Ties To Russia
If Jared Kushner is indicted, all Jews might suffer. At least, so says Jonathan Sarna, a respected historian of anti-Semitism at Brandeis University. “We ought to be prepared for that eventuality. Somebody ought to be writing a memo,” Sarna told the Times of Israel. “If Kushner is indicted, we need to be prepared.” Kushner is…
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