I am a staff writer for the Forward, the nonprofit Jewish news outlet. I’ve covered sexual abuse and misconduct, politics at every level, the Hasidic world, anti-Semitism, identity and representation, health and education. 

I live in Manhattan, and when people in the city ask me where I’m from, I say I’m from Minnesota—but my mom is from Queens. That tends to mollify the more diehard New Yorkers who can’t always find Minnesota on a map. 

I graduated with honors from the University of Chicago, where I wrote for the wonderful and groundbreaking South Side Weekly. 

Hobbies include cooking, dancing, collage and travel whenever possible — that’s me in Tel Aviv on the left, and the top photograph is one I took in Patagonia.

Got tips? Contact me at ariephraimfeldman(at)gmail(dot)com, or via the encrypted messaging app Signal, at 862 239 4949.