Aiden Pink is the Deputy News Editor for the Forward. Contact him at [email protected] or on Twitter, @aidenpink.
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Fast Forward Trump Threatens To Cut Palestinian Aid Unless They Resume Peace Talks
President Trump suggested Tuesday that he may cut off aid payments to the Palestinian Authority if it does not resume peace negotiations with Israel. “We pay the Palestinians HUNDRED OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS a year and get no appreciation or respect,” he wrote on Twitter. “They don’t even want to negotiate a long overdue peace…
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Fast Forward Michele Bachmann May Run For Al Franken’s Senate Seat — If God Gives Her The Green Light
Former Rep. Michele Bachmann is considering running for Al Franken’s vacated Senate seat, she said in an interview last week. Franken’s resignation on Tuesday triggered a November special election in Minnesota to fill the last two years of his term. Bachmann, who represented a Minnesota district in the House for eight years, said on “The…
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Fast Forward Roy Moore’s Jewish Lawyer: I’m ‘Passionate Supporter’ Of Doug Jones
The Jewish lawyer whom Alabama senate candidate Roy Moore’s wife referenced as their attorney in an effort to thwart anti-Semitism allegations is actually a friend and supporter of Moore’s opponent Doug Jones. The identity of that lawyer was the subject of much curiosity in the national media before the Forward identified him as Richard Jaffe,…
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News I’m A Proud Minnesota Jew, And I’m Fine With Al Franken Resigning
When I told a friend last year that I was moving to New York, he told me he was jealous that I was “making aliyah,” employing the Hebrew phrase people use when they talk about moving to Israel. The idea that the Big Apple with its million Jews is holy — the true center of…
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Fast Forward France Denies It Has Secret Tax Department Investigating Jews
The French government has denied a report that it set up a secret division of its tax authority devoted to investigating French Jews with property in Israel. The Israeli business newspaper Globes reported on Thursday that France’s Ministry of Finance had hired 20 Hebrew-speaking employees who are charged with poring over tax and property records…
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Fast Forward Florida ‘Hot Cop’ Resigns Amid Anti-Semitism Investigation
A police officer in Florida who gained fame for his rescue efforts during Hurricane Irma has resigned from his post amid an internal investigation that he posted anti-Semitic content on his Facebook account. A photo of Officer Michael Hamill and two other members of the Gainesville Police Department went viral in August, with the snapshot…
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Fast Forward Who Is Putting Anti-Israel Stickers On This Synagogue?
Two anti-Israel stickers were posted earlier this month on the property of a Conservative synagogue in Queens, New York. Both stickers — one saying “Palestinian Human Rights,” another saying “Apartheid Isn’t Kosher” — are sold by Jewish Voice for Peace, a group that supports the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israel. Rabbi Robyn Fryer…
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Fast Forward Roy Moore Challenges Election Results With Help From Holocaust Denier
Roy Moore, the Republican nominee who lost the Senate election in Alabama earlier this month, filed a last minute-legal complaint alleging election fraud and asking the state not to confirm that his opponent won. Moore, who refused to concede on election night that he lost to Democratic opponent Doug Jones, argued in state court that…
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