
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 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.
Michael D. Cohen, President Donald Trump’s longtime personal lawyer, paid the porn actress known as Stormy Daniels $130,000 out of his own pocket — and was not reimbursed, the New York Times reported. The payment was first reported by the Wall Street Journal in January. In a detailed statement to the Times, Cohen called the…
The New York Times announced a new hire on Tuesday afternoon. And then reversed the decision Tuesday night after Twitter users showed the writer’s tweets using homophobic slurs and bragging about befriending neo-Nazis, the Washington Post reported. The Times’ editorial board announced it had hired Quinn Norton, a technology blogger, to be its lead opinion…
A Jewish sophomore at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is saying he “feels unsafe” on campus do to the presence of another student, Daniel Kleve, who is a vocal member of a major neo-Nazi group. In a letter to the editor of The Daily Nebraskan, Zachary Markon wrote that he feels Kleve violate’s the school’s Code…
After the National Prayer Breakfast last week, Ivanka Trump went into a meeting with over a dozen major evangelical leaders. The meeting went well over it’s scheduled time limit, last for two hours, The Christian Post reported. The group included Paula White, Franklin Graham (son of Billy Graham) and Texas pastor Robert Jeffress. “In 2017,…
The Jewish parents of infant twin boys drove last summer from their home in the Washington, D.C., area to a summer camp in Pennsylvania to perform a conversion for their babies. It was a slightly embellished version of the traditional conversion ceremony: Since both boys were already circumcised, they simply recited a prayer, the Sh’ma,…
Members of the white supremacist group American Vanguard pasted their own posters over flyers advertising events for Black History Month at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, the Chattanooga Times Free Press reported last week. American Vanguard played a large role in organizing the “Unite The Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia last yeawr. The posters showed American…
German Prime Minister Angela Merkel declined to comment on Saturday on Poland’s controversial bill that criminalizes statements attributing any fault for the Holocaust to Polish people or the Polish state, the Irish Times reported. “Without directly interfering in the legislation in Poland, I would like to say the following very clearly as German chancellor: We…
A man and women suspected of killing Florida State University professor and legal scholar Dan Markel are facing new charges, Tallahassee ABC affiliate WTXL reported Katherine Magbanua and Sigfredo Garcia are already indicted for Markel’s July 2014 murder. Investigators have suggested that the two were hired as contract killers. Now the Florida state attorney’s office…
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