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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In 2015, Union Theological Seminary, a venerable Protestant institution in Manhattan, announced it would be opening up its campus to luxury condominium development to help pay for $125 million worth of repairs and upgrades. In late 2017, after prodding from a local community group, the school pledged $5 million to help keep local residents from…
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Fast Forward Canadian Rabbis Call On Trudeau To Rescind Refugee Agreement With U.S.
A group of Canadian rabbis is calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to suspend a 2004 agreement with the United States that recognizes America as a legitimate country in which refugees can claim asylum. The rabbis, citing the Trump administration’s recent policy of separating migrant families at the Mexican border and its ban on migrants…
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News Ashkenazi Jews Have A Nickname. Or Is It A Slur?
In 2018, brevity is the soul not of wit, but of identity politics. Feminine is “femme.” Masculine is “masc.” And Ashkenazi is “Ashki.” The term, sometimes a dig and sometimes a diminutive, is popping up more frequently on social media. Like other internet-era terms for Jewish sub-groups — “ortho” for Orthdoox, “OTD” for those who…
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News Stanley Rosenfeld, Accused Of Molesting Children At New York Jewish Schools, Is Alive
Stanley Rosenfeld, the educator accused of molesting boys at two elite Jewish private schools in New York City in the 1970s, is alive, the Forward has learned. Rosenfeld lives at an assisted living facility in Providence, Rhode Island. He is 84 years old. The Forward located Rosenfeld after reviewing records with Rhode Island’s Sex Offender…
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News A Predator Roamed Jewish Schools. Why Wasn’t He Stopped?
In the winter of 1970-71, when Michael Rabin was 12 years old, Stanley Rosenfeld invited him home for a sleepover. Rosenfeld, in his late thirties, was the beloved assistant principal of Westchester Day School in Mamaroneck, New York. He was known for having boys in the middle school over to spend the night; the invitation…
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News An Oped About Race Sets Jewish Facebook Aflame And Shuts It Down
Several Jewish Facebook groups erupted with racist and derogatory comments after the Forward published an opinion article Monday by an African-American Jewish woman arguing that American Jews with light-colored skin are “functionally white.” The response led three Jews of color and frequent posters in those groups to rescind their membership. In solidarity, the administrators of…
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News In The Garment District, Wearing White Collars Instead Of Sewing Them
Manhattan’s legendary garment industry was the “welcome mat” for Jewish immigrants to the city for nearly fifty years. The jobs they found there, such as cutter, sewer and trimmings supplier, helped propel New York’s Jews into the middle class in the late 19th and early 20th century. In 2018, Manhattan’s garment industry is at risk…
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News Rabbi Accused Of Sexual Misconduct Asked Not To Attend Spiritual Retreat
The Reform movement’s rabbinical association asked a North Carolina rabbi accused of sexual misconduct not to attend a popular summer retreat for Jewish community leaders. Rabbi Larry Bach withdrew from the Institute for Jewish Spirituality event before the event’s leaders could decide whether to let him attend or not, the executive director of the IJS,…
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