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 While Police Investigate Stabbing in Hasidic Enclave, Rumors Abound About ‘Inside Job’
Read this article in Yiddish here. MONSEY, N.Y. — Last week, the phrase on the lips of many Jews in Rockland County, New York, was “hate crime.” Just before 6 a.m. on Wednesday, a man jumped out of a car on a quiet residential street in the heart of Monsey, the suburban Hasidic haven, and…
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Fast Forward Fiona Hill Just Mentioned ‘The Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion.’ What Are They?
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion came up today at the Congressional impeachment hearings that are probing whether President Trump tried to bribe another head of state for political purposes. The Protocols are a fake book that purports to document a Jewish plan to achieve world domination. At the hearing, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.)…
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News The Torah That Ended Up At A Goodwill Doesn’t Belong To A Jew
For Jill Hyman, a Torah is an etz chaim, the tree of life and the “source of Jewish existence.” She refers to a scroll as “she,” as though she knows it personally. So when Hyman, the administrator of Temple Beth El in Williamsburg, Va., got a call a little over two weeks ago about a…
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Fast Forward The ADL Surveyed 18 Countries On Anti-Semitism. Here’s What You Need To Know.
The Anti-Defamation League has released a new poll of anti-Semitic attitudes in 18 countries around the world. The ADL spoke to residents of Canada, Brazil, Argentina, South Africa and several countries in Western and Eastern Europe. While anti-Semitic attitudes appear to have largely held steady across Western Europe as compared with the two previous years,…
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Fast Forward Alexander Vindman’s Family Under 24-Hour Security Monitoring After Twitter Targeting By Trump
The Army has placed Alexander Vindman, an expert on Ukraine and a central figure in the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, and his family under 24-hour security monitoring after Trump targeted Vindman in tweets accusing Vindman of being politically opposed to Trump. Vindman was one of the people who listened in on Trump’s calls…
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Culture Why Jewish Studies Is More Relevant Than Ever
If you’re a Jewish studies scholar, you know a truth that many American Jews don’t understand. For years, synagogues have decried shrinking membership, and liberal Jewish denominations have reported decreasing engagement. Intermarriage is widely feared, as is a supposed decline in interest in Israel. “We have lots of negative narratives,” says Leonard Saxe, a professor…
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News The Jews Of The Impeachment Showdown: A Visual Guide
The holidays are coming, a chill settled across much of America this week, and impeachment is going public. It’s time to ask the question we’ve all been wondering about, now that several reliable news organizations have corroborated that President Donald Trump planned to give Ukraine hundreds of millions of dollars of military aid if, and…
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Fast Forward Synagogue Threatened By Bomb Plot Is Opening Its Shabbat Services To The Public
The Colorado synagogue that was targeted by a white supremacist would-be bomber has said that the public is welcome to attend Friday evening services this Sabbath. Rabbi Birdie Becker, the leader of Temple Emanuel, in Pueblo, also noted that the synagogue will now install external security cameras in response to the bombing threat. The man…
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