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 NFL player DeSean Jackson shares anti-Semitic ‘Hitler’ quote, then says he isn’t anti-Semitic
DeSean Jackson, a wide receiver for the Philadelphia Eagles football team, posted quotes attributed to Adolf Hitler before later saying he has no “hate towards the Jewish community.” On Monday, Jackson shared a quote falsely attributed to Hitler on his Instagram Stories. The quote, which has been deemed inauthentic by the fact-checking site Snopes, states…
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Fast Forward GOP official apologizes for cartoon equating lockdown mask mandate with Holocaust
A rural Kansas newspaper owned by a Republican Party chairman retracted a cartoon, widely criticized as anti-Semitic, that equated the state’s lockdown rules to the Holocaust. The cartoon, posted to the Facebook page of the newspaper on Friday, depicted Kansas’ Democratic governor, Laura Kelly, wearing a face mask with a Star of David on it,…
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News Extremist activity is growing in the pandemic. How worried should Jews be?
On the last day of Passover last year, a young nursing student went into the Chabad of Poway synagogue and shot four people, killing 60-year-old Lori Gilbert-Kaye. The accused murderer’s manifesto was filled with anti-Semitic sentiments, but it also contained another element: The shooter’s wish that his actions would lead the government to start confiscating…
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Fast Forward Seth Rogen: surprise in Mel Gibson’s ‘oven dodger’ comment is that he acknowledges Holocaust
Seth Rogen admitted his surprise on Twitter that Mel Gibson’s “oven dodger” comment about the Jewish actress Winona Ryder allowed for the existence of the Holocaust. I’m only surprised by Mel Gibson’s “oven dodger” comment because it acknowledges the Holocaust actually happened. — Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) June 23, 2020 Ryder revealed (for a second time,…
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News There’s a memorial in Charlotte to Confederate Judah Benjamin, and the city’s Jews want it gone
A national push to dismantle memorials that glorify racism might help the Jewish community of Charlotte, N.C. achieve a long-sought goal: the permanent removal of a monument to Judah Benjamin, the most prominent Jewish figure in the Confederate government. Erected in 1948 by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the memorial to Benjamin is a…
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Fast Forward Museum of Jewish Heritage cuts 40% of staff, saying pandemic threatens its survival
New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage is laying off about 34 people — about 40% of its staff — and reducing hours across some remaining positions due to financial pressures posed by the coronavirus pandemic, museum CEO Jack Kliger announced Monday in a staff call. Kliger said that the coronavirus, which forced the museum to…
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Fast Forward Jewish Twitter’s credo: ‘Stephen Miller is a white nationalist’
Liberal Jews on Twitter are tweeting a credo of the moment: Stephen Miller, a top aide to Donald Trump and the force behind some of his most exclusionary immigration efforts, is a white nationalist. The tweets came in response to one from Joel Pollak, a writer for the conservative media site Breitbart, who was himself…
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News Trump’s Nazi triangle post the latest in a series of seeming dog whistles
A red triangle. The number 14. The number 88. President Trump has again provided fodder for the critics who have accused him of using Nazi and anti-Semitic symbols to signal his sympathies with white nationalist supporters. His campaign posted the latest example on Facebook on Thursday: an ad featuring an inverted red triangle — used…
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