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 British Government To Fund Trips To Auschwitz To Combat Campus Anti-Semitism
The British government has allocated £144,000, or $200,000, to send university faculty and students on trips to Auschwitz as part of an initiative to help fight campus anti-Semitism, the Jewish Chronicle reported. “We all have a duty to speak out in the memory of those who were murdered during the Holocaust and all those, today,…
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Fast Forward Assistant Goldman Sachs Exec Stole $1.2M Of French Wine From His Boss’ Cellar
David M. Solomon, co-president at Goldman Sachs, famously dines out more than most restaurant critics, and is known for bringing his own hand-picked bottles from his cellar, which contains wine worth millions of dollars. But an unsealed indictment has revealed that Solomon trusted the wrong man with managing his cellar. The New York Times reported…
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News Who Is Blaze Bernstein’s Accused Killer — And Did He Turn To Hate Online?
Samuel Lincoln Woodward was formally charged Wednesday with murdering Blaze Bernstein — as questions continued to swirl around the senseless stabbing of the California college student. Woodward, a high-school classmate of Bernstein, was shackled and did not enter a plea during a brief appearance in an Orange County court. A judge ordered him held without bail…
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Fast Forward Jared Kushner’s High School In Spotlight After Media Reports On Email Sent To Students
Update: This article has been updated to include additional reporting by the Forward. Some parents of children attending a well-known Orthodox Jewish high school in New Jersey were upset after students received an email encouraging them to write laudatory letters to President Donald Trump, Haaretz reported. But the school’s principal — and several parents —…
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Fast Forward For Super Bowl, Minneapolis Airport Will Display Stories Of Holocaust Survivors
A traveling exhibition of stories of Holocaust survivors will be shown in the Minneapolis/St. Paul airport in Minnesota for the duration of this year’s two-week-long Super Bowl festivities, the Star Tribune reported. The big game, hosted at the US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, is expected to draw over a million people to the city. “Transfer…
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Fast Forward Legendary Jewish Wrestler To Be Inducted Into WWE Hall Of Fame
Bill Goldberg, a legendary wrestler with the WWE tour, will be inducted into WWE’s Hall Of Fame in April during Wrestlemania, the Cleveland Jewish News reported. William Scott Goldberg, 51, made his wrestling debut in 1997 on World Championship Wrestling, a promotion eventually bought by WWE. While with WCW, Goldberg went undefeated, racking up 173…
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Fast Forward Reality TV Host Lets Slip Anti-Semitic Slur While Selling A School Bus
A reality TV host came under fire after uttering an anti-Semitic slur, the New York Post reported. Toni and her sister Donna Snow are the hosts of “Texas Flip N Move,” a reality show where the sisters refurbish houses and then “flip” them for a profit. In a January 12 episode, they sold a refurbished…
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News Who Had Dan Markel Killed?
Welcome to the Forward’s series on unsolved Jewish murders. The cases run across continents and class divides and have rocked Jewish communities around the world. To access the series, click here. The victim Dan Markel was a respected legal academic who wrote about crime and punishment in law journals, in essays for Slate and The…
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