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 A Unique Jewish Boarding School Closes Abruptly, And Alumni Mourn
The American Hebrew Academy, a prestigious and ambitious Jewish boarding school in North Carolina, abruptly announced its closure Tuesday morning, surprising its students and leaving its faculty without jobs. The closure was announced in an email signed by both the AHA’s chief executive and the chairwoman of the board. The email was notification to most…
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Fast Forward American Hebrew Academy, Prestigious Jewish Boarding School, Closes Abruptly
This is a developing story. The American Hebrew Academy, a prestigious Jewish boarding school in North Carolina, announced its closure abruptly on Tuesday, stunning faculty and students, the Forward has learned. The school began operating in 2001. An email to faculty and staff from Glenn A. Drew, the school’s CEO, and Leeor Sabbah, chair of…
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News This Rabbi Would Prefer That You Compost His Body, Not Bury It
When Rabbi Ted Falcon dies, plant a fig tree over his remains. Sorry, with his remains: Falcon wants his body to be composted. “I’m just trying to apply the principle of returning dust to dust,” he said. “How do you do that in the most productive way?” In May, Washington became the first state to…
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Fast Forward As YouTube Cracks Down On Holocaust Denial, It Deletes Anti-Semitism Researcher’s Account
As YouTube cracks down on Holocaust denial on its video platform, it has deleted the account of a prominent anti-Semitism researcher, seemingly in error, the Jewish Chronicle reported. On Wednesday, YouTube said in a press release that it would begin deleting videos from its site that “alleg[e] that a group is superior in order to…
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Fast Forward Ultra-Orthodox Political Donor Prints 192,000 Pro-Vaccine Pamphlets To Fight Measles
An Orthodox businessman and major Republican donor has funded the printing of 192,000 pamphlets aimed at convincing ultra-Orthodox Jews that they should vaccinate their children, Yeshiva World News reported. Richard Roberts has been an outspoken proponent of vaccination for years; last year, he banned unvaccinated children from the large Purim carnival that he throws each…
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Fast Forward Holocaust History Blogger Accused Of Making Up Family Members Who Died At Auschwitz
An Irish blogger made up various facts about her family’s suffering during the Holocaust, according to a report from the German investigative magazine Der Spiegel. Sophie Marie Hingst began blogging several years ago about her family’s persecution and murders by the Nazi regime during the Holocaust. The blog, called “Read on my dear, read on,”…
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Fast Forward 80-Year-Old Italian Farmer Mows Giant Swastika Into Field
An 80-year-old Italian farmer mowed a giant swastika into a field on a hill, Newsweek reported. The swastika was drawn in San Damiano D’Asti, a small town about an hour’s drive from Turin. According to La Repubblica, an Italian newspaper, the man played the massive crop symbol off as a joke, and then mowed the…
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Fast Forward Yiddishkeit. Lekach. Keriah. Tophet. Holishkes. The Scripps Spelling Bee Just Loves Jewish Words.
You might think that the biggest news to come out of the 2019 Scripps Spelling Bee would be the historic eight-way tie in which the competition ended. Well, you’d probably be right. But what about the Jewish news? Several of the high caliber words posed to contestants were either Yiddish or Hebrew, joining the many…
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