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 Tucker Carlson Said He’s Being Attacked By TV And Sitcom Writers. Is That Anti-Semitic?
Fox News personality Tucker Carlson has been having a bad couple of days. On Sunday evening, Media Matters, a non-profit conservative media monitor, released audio clips of Carlson making misogynistic comments and defending arranged marriages between adult men and girls who are below the age of consent. The statements were made between 2006 and 2011…
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Fast Forward Brooklyn To Name Building After RBG As 86th Birthday Present
Brooklyn is re-naming a building after Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in honor of her 86th birthday, the Daily News reported. “This is definitely a 50 Cent ‘It’s your birthday’ moment,” Brooklyn borough president Eric Adams said. “[Ginsburg] has reached an iconic status equivalent to Serena Williams and Beyoncé’s fame.” Ginsburg, who was born…
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Fast Forward Why Haven’t Ethics Watchdogs OK’d Steve Mnuchin’s Financial Disclosures?
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin’s financial disclosure forms from 2017 have gone eight months without approval from top White House ethics watchdogs, according to a report from the Center for Public Integrity. While the Treasury’s ethics office has approved the forms, the Administrations top ethics officers, at the Office of Government Ethics, has not. The…
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Fast Forward House Dem Under Fire For Saying Omar’s Experience ‘More Personal’ Than Children Of Survivors
Rep. James Clyburn came under fire Thursday after telling reporters that Rep. Ilhan Omar’s experience with hardship was “more personal” than the children of Holocaust survivors. His comments came as the House was preparing to pass a resolution condemning anti-Semitism, originally meant as a response to comments by Omar that were widely perceived as anti-Semitic….
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News Is The Latest Ilhan Omar Episode About Anti-Semitism, Or Israel?
On Thursday afternoon the Democratic Party prepared to vote on a resolution that was proposed in a very different spirit. The statement condemns anti-Semitism — and Islamophobia, and bigotry of all kinds. Draft language of the resolution published by CBS Thursday morning condemns “anti-Semitism as hateful expressions of intolerance that are contradictory to the values…
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News Is Michael Cohen Doing Teshuva – Or Just Trying To Reduce His Prison Sentence?
“I have come here to apologize to my family, to the government, and to the American people.” These words — spoken last week by Michael Cohen before the House Oversight Committee — sound like the supplication of a humbled man, even a remorseful one. They may sway the hearts and minds of members of Congress…
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Fast Forward Will Michael Cohen Wear The Kabbalah-Inspired Red Thread Tomorrow In House Testimony?
Last week, while testifying before the House Oversight Committee about his work for Donald Trump, Michael Cohen was photographed sporting a red thread bracelet on his left hand. The thin thread has deep roots in Jewish mysticism — it is supposed to be a talisman that wards off evil. European rabbis once considered the red…
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Fast Forward Pro-Trump Conspiracy Theorist Apologizes To Family Of Seth Rich
A pro-Trump conspiracy theorist who had amplified the conspiracy theories around the murder of Seth Rich, the Jewish Democratic National Committee staffer, apologized to Rich’s family, RollingStone.com reported. On Monday, the website InfoWars.com, which is run by the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, retracted a column by one of its “correspondents,” Jeremy Corsi, and issued a…
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