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 Javanka Tried To Get Planned Parenthood Chief To Give Up Abortions For Funding: Book
A new book by the outgoing head of Planned Parenthood reports that Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump tried to end the agency’s abortion services in exchange for funding, the People reported. In Cecile Richards’ new book, “Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead,” she describes a meeting with the couple…
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Fast Forward Kushners Increasingly Divided As Scrutiny On Family Mounts
As scrutiny over their businesses deepens, the Kushner family starting to see the price of Jared’s push for fame and influence at the White House, the New York Times reported. Jared’s sister is reportedly stressed by the investigation into whether she used White House influence to woo investors. Jared and his brother Josh are at…
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Fast Forward Muslim Pol And Jewish Leader Want To Rebuild Synagogue In Berlin
A Palestinian-German politician and the chairman of Berlin’s Jewish community are hatching a plan to rebuild a grand synagogue destroyed by Nazis and their supporters in 1938, the Washington Post reported. The Fraenkelufer synagogue was largely destroyed during Kristallnacht, in 1938. Raed Saleh and Gideon Jaffe hope to raise enough money for a new synagogue…
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News Conservative Judaism’s Leader Departs To Mixed Reviews At Fraught Time
When Rabbi Steven Wernick interviewed to be chief executive of the Conservative movement’s umbrella organization in 2009, he came prepared and had “done his homework,” according to a former board officer who was present. He was then head rabbi of a synagogue in Philadelphia’s wealthy Main Line suburb. Board members were particularly impressed by how…
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Fast Forward Ugandan Dance Group Goes Viral With Video Of Israeli Hit
A dance group in Uganda has made a video video for Israel’s Eurovision song contest entry, “Toy,” is going viral, the Jewish Chronicle reported. The group, called Spoon Youth, dances in the Namuwongo slum of Kampala, Uganda, and chose the Israeli singer Netta’s growing hit song after Israeli volunteers recommended it. “The guys heard the…
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Fast Forward Germany’s Far Right Decries Holocaust Memorials For ‘Dictating’ Who Should Be Remembered
Amid rising anti-Semitism across Europe, Germany’s far-right party is lashing out at the famous “stumbling stones” Holocaust memorials, CNN reported. The Stolperstein — small cobble stones with a brass plaque commemorating a victim of the Holocaust — can be found in cities across Europe. Their creator, the sculptor Gunter Demnig, dubbed them stumbling stones because…
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Fast Forward GOP’s Neo-Nazi Candidate In Chicago Denies Holocaust In Anti-Semitic Rant
Arthur Jones, the Republican candidate for a Chicago congressional district and a neo-Nazi, made a series of anti-Semitic comments in an interview with the Jewish Chronicle. Jones ran unopposed in the Republican primary for Illinois’ third district — a heavily blue one. In the interview, Jones denied being an active member of the Nazi party,…
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Fast Forward Jared Fogle Appeals To Donald Trump To Get Out Of Prison
Jared Fogle, the former spokesman for Subway sandwiches, appealed to President Donald Trump to shorten his prison sentence on charges related to child pornography and statutory rape, the New York Post reported. Fogle, 40, is serving a 15-year sentence after pleading guilty in 2015 to distributing child pornography and traveling to have sex with a…
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