Even in Brooklyn, there are wandering Jews. That’s how Marcella Kanfer Rolnick and Amy Abrams saw themselves in 2012. Both parents of students at the same Jewish school, the two women bonded over their shared longing for a spiritual home. “I felt like here I was telling my kids, ‘Go to a Jewish school, yes…
A second major U.S. Jewish charity has acknowledged to the Forward that it funded the Israeli charity that appears to run Canary Mission, the online blacklist of student activists that the Israeli government has used to interrogate and detain U.S. citizens. Between November of 2016 and September of 2017, the Jewish Community Foundation of Los…
The Israeli private intelligence company that offered to manipulate social media for the Trump campaign offered similar services a year earlier to a group of U.S. Jewish donors who sought to target Israel’s critics, according to a document obtained by the Forward. In late 2015, the Israeli private intelligence firm Psy-Group approached an ad hoc…
A Florida Republican activist donated to a prominent African-American organization the day after a report was published broadcasting the fact that he called former President Barack Obama a “F—— MUSLIM N——” on Twitter, public records show. Steven Alembik, who first made national news for holding a pro-Israel fundraiser at President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort following the…
Updated 5:15 p.m. A Jewish community center in southern California is evaluating an allegation that a top official at a summer camp it was associated with had sexual encounters with an underage female camper for several years more than 35 years ago, the Forward has learned. The Alpert JCC in Long Beach is investigating the…
Jason Wasserman was on the child sex offender registry. He completed his sentence and has been pardoned.
In Tucson, another sign of division on the left
Stanley Rosenfeld liked to wrestle with his middle school students. In his underwear. The matches would take place in his apartment when he was an assistant principal at SAR Academy, a prominent Orthodox school in New York City. Rosenfeld frequently hosted his male students for weekend sleepovers. He would cook Friday night dinner and take…
A teacher fired in connection with the Jewish educator Stanley Rosenfeld’s abuse of children at an Orthodox school in the 1970s is suing the school and claiming wrongful termination. Rabbi Sheldon Schwartz, a 45-year veteran of SAR Academy in the Bronx, alleges that the school has not followed its own procedures in firing him, a…
Robert Eckmann finally decided ten months ago to email his middle school about the principal who molested him in the 1970s. He couldn’t have known the consequences. His private message has led to revelations about Stanley Rosenfeld, who the Forward found had admitted to molesting hundreds of boys over a decades-long career in Jewish education….
A Republican Jewish congressional candidate in New Jersey who once said “diversity is a bunch of crap” again sparked outrage when he compared the sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh to the lynching of “innocent Jewish and black men.” Seth Grossman, who according to a recent poll is trailing Democrat Jeff Van…
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