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 ‘Hired Goons,’ Intimidating Rottweiler Cited In Synagogue Lockout Lawsuit
Hired goons. A rottweiler. Sabotage. Coney Island. If you think this sounds like the plot from a classic crime epic about Brooklyn, you’d be right. But also these things relate to an ongoing lawsuit alleging one group’s “takeover” of a synagogue in the sleepy neighborhood of Seagate, at the far western edge of Coney Island….
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News A Thriving Synagogue Hired Its First Female Head Rabbi. Here’s Why That Matters.
Most job interviews are little more than sitting in a windowless room, answering questions from a manager with your resume in one hand and coffee in the other. For rabbis aiming for the pulpit, they’re a little different. This past winter, Temple Israel Center, a large Conservative synagogue in Westchester County, New York, had four…
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Fast Forward Majestic Abandoned Synagogue Reopened As Micro-Apartments By Lifestyle Brand
A lifestyle brand-cum-real-estate-developer in Chicago has finished its renovation of an abandoned synagogue into a building of micro-apartments, Forbes reported. The building is the former Agudas Achim North Shore Synagogue, home to an Orthodox congregation in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood for a century. In 2016, developers bought the abandoned building, which had been vacant for ten…
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Fast Forward Arkansas College Honors Alleged Holocaust Denier With Scholarship
The Anti-Defamation League is alleging that a professor at an Arkansas college, who left money for a scholarship in his name, was a committed Holocaust denier, Insider Higher Ed reported. Michael Arthur Link was a professor of history at Arkansas Tech University for 51 years, until his death in 2016. He left $190,000 in his…
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Fast Forward Trump Administration Aids Tribe Suing NJ Town That Passed Anti-Semitic Laws
The Trump administration is aiding a New Jersey native American tribe in its legal suit against a suburb for using its zoning rules to persecute the tribe, The New York Times reported. That same town — Mahwah, in Bergen County — was also repeatedly accused of using its zoning rules to [keep Hasidic Jews from…
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Fast Forward Mausoleum Doors Taken In $30,000 Looting Of Jewish Cemetery In Queens
More than $30,000 worth of mausoleum doors and air vents were stolen from a historic Jewish cemetery this past weekend, the New York Post reported. Sometime between Friday afternoon and Sunday, authorities said, a thief took 14 doors and 75 air vents from Beth Olam Jewish Cemetery, in the neighborhood of Ridgewood, Queens. The cemetery…
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News Immigrants Make Exodus, Then Find Struggle And New Start In Passover Cleaning
For twenty years, two very different communities have been meeting on the corner of Marcy and Division avenues in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Ultra-Orthodox Jews go there to find cleaning ladies; Latina immigrants to find work. Gloria Puma, 35, is one of the latter, an undocumented immigrant from Ecuador. One morning almost exactly four years ago, her…
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News We Read The Guide Fueling Ultra-Orthodox Fears Of Pig Blood In Measles Vaccines
In the popular imagination, ultra-Orthodox Jews shun the modern world. They live and work in tight-knit enclaves in Brooklyn or suburban New York and New Jersey, fiercely protect their autonomy over their religious schools and do not participate in the defining technology of modern times: the Internet. But while this picture is true for many…
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