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 feldman@forward.com. Follow him on Twitter @aefeldman.
Ari Feldman
By Ari Feldman
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News Liberal Orthodox Rabbis Seeking Pulpits Struggle With Stigma Against Seminary
Rabbi Joel Dinin is a no-nonsense Orthodox rabbi — and he looks the part. He sports a black kippah and doesn’t tuck in his tzitzit, the ritual tassels of the prayer shawl he wears as an undershirt. After Saturday morning services he asks that his congregants wash their hands and say the proper blessings, as…
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Fast Forward Jared Kushner Made More Mistakes In Disclosure Forms
Jared Kushner’s latest filing of a routine financial disclosure form contained mistakes — despite the fact that it’s been updated 40 times since March 2017, ProPublica reported. The form, an ethics form meant to disclose the finances of White House staff members, contained false information about two loans Kushner Companies made to downtown Brooklyn properties….
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Fast Forward Are The Feds Tapping Michael Cohen’s Phone Calls?
On Thursday, NBC reported that federal investigators “tapped” phones belonging to Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s longtime lawyer. The report, which cited two anonymous sources, said that the wiretapping had been in place in the weeks before an FBI raid on Michael Cohen’s office and living space. But almost immediately after the report was published, it…
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Fast Forward Eric Greitens Faces Impeachment Push In Missouri Special Session
Missouri lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to begin a special session for considering the impeachment of the state’s scandal-mired governor, Eric Greitens, POLITICO reported. The vote comes a day after a report released by state lawmakers accused Greitens, who is Jewish, of violating federal campaign finance laws. Lawmakers voted for the special session to address the report,…
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News Sexual Misconduct Allegations Rattle Prominent All-Girls Yeshiva
The principal of an elite ultra-Orthodox girls’ school is defending himself against accusations from a politician and community members that he’s ignored years of complaints about sexual misconduct. The controversy’s catalyst was the release late last week, through a popular messaging app, of a recording that relates one student’s tale of an unwanted kiss from…
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Fast Forward A Holiday Bonfire Exploded After Rabbi Put Cell Phone Into Flames
Hasidic Jews celebrating a Jewish holiday triggered a massive explosion in London’s Stamford Hill neighborhood after putting cell phones into a bonfire pyre, the Jewish Chronicle reported. The bonfire had been kindled for Lag B’Omer, a holiday that falls halfway between Passover and Shavuot. It is traditional in Israel and among religious Jews to create…
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Fast Forward Report: Greitens Lied To Ethics Committee About Using Charity’s Donor List For Campaign
Eric Greitens, the Missouri governor accused of blackmailing a former sexual partner with nude images, is now accused of lying to a state ethics committee about whether he used a private charity’s donor list for his own campaign fundraising, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. Missouri launched a special investigation into Greitens’ campaign funding tactics in…
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Fast Forward Sheldon Silver’s Friend Used Hebrew ‘Code’ To Warn Him About FBI
A friend of Sheldon Silver said in court Tuesday that he warned the former Assembly speaker about being raided by the FBI in 2014 using a Hebrew codeword, the New York Post reported. Dr. Robert Taub — a key government witness in a corruption retrial of Silver that began Monday — said he called Silver…
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