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 Sex-Offender Synagogue President Resigns Despite Rabbi’s Support
Jason Wasserman was on the child sex offender registry. He completed his sentence and has been pardoned.
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News Prestigious Jewish School Knew About Predator’s Abuse But Rehired Him Anyway
Stanley Rosenfeld liked to wrestle with his middle school students. In his underwear. The matches would take place in his apartment when he was an assistant principal at SAR Academy, a prominent Orthodox school in New York City. Rosenfeld frequently hosted his male students for weekend sleepovers. He would cook Friday night dinner and take…
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Fast Forward A Second Orthodox School Says Educator Stanley Rosenfeld Preyed On Its Students
The administration of a prominent Orthodox middle school in New York City was aware of an assistant principal’s abuse of children before he left the school, yet rehired him less than a decade later as a teacher, according to a report released by the school Friday. The report, commissioned by SAR Academy, was an in-depth…
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News Fired Teacher Sues SAR — Says He’s Sex Scandal Scapegoat
A teacher fired in connection with the Jewish educator Stanley Rosenfeld’s abuse of children at an Orthodox school in the 1970s is suing the school and claiming wrongful termination. Rabbi Sheldon Schwartz, a 45-year veteran of SAR Academy in the Bronx, alleges that the school has not followed its own procedures in firing him, a…
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News Is SAR Reckoning With A Sex Abuse Scandal — Or Looking For A Scapegoat?
Robert Eckmann finally decided ten months ago to email his middle school about the principal who molested him in the 1970s. He couldn’t have known the consequences. His private message has led to revelations about Stanley Rosenfeld, who the Forward found had admitted to molesting hundreds of boys over a decades-long career in Jewish education….
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News Teacher With A Foot Fetish Was Allowed To Prey On Jewish Students For Years
One day when Linda Gerstel was in ninth grade, one of her teachers at the prestigious Ramaz School, Albert Goetz, asked her to stay late after class. By then, in the mid-1970s, Goetz had become a formidable figure at Ramaz, on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. He would soon become a legendary college adviser, able to…
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News Murder Of Ari Fuld Sparks Grief And Anger From New York To Israel
Ari Fuld, a New York-born pro-Israel activist and defender of the Israeli settlement movement, was fatally stabbed by a Palestinian teenager at a shopping mall in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Sunday morning, propelling grieving Americans desperate to mourn with his family onto planes bound for Israel. Fuld, 45 and a father of four, was…
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Fast Forward Israeli Man Already In Jail For Refusing To Divorce Wife Facing More Prison Time For Same
An Israeli man who has already served 17 years in prison for refusing to divorce his wife is facing even more prison time for still refusing to divorce his wife, the Washington Post reported. Tzviya Gorodetsky first asked her husband, Meir Gorodetsky, for a divorce 23 years ago. He refused. Six years later, he was…
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