Aiden Pink is the Deputy News Editor for the Forward. Contact him at [email protected] or on Twitter, @aidenpink.
Aiden Pink
By Aiden Pink
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Fast Forward TV Icon Norman Lear Will Boycott White House Ceremony Because Of Trump
Legendary TV producer Norman Lear announced Friday that he will not attend a White House reception for this year’s winners of the Kennedy Center Honors in protest of President Trump. Lear told the New York Times on Thursday that Trump “has chosen to neglect totally the arts and humanities — deliberately defund them — and…
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Fast Forward Chelsea Clinton Got Into A Twitter Fight Over Hannah Arendt
Think about how much worse life would be without the internet. We wouldn’t have video chats on Skype. We wouldn’t have baby pandas sneezing on YouTube. And we wouldn’t have Chelsea Clinton getting into an argument over philosophy and Nazism on Twitter. It started when the former first daughter tweeted a Washington Post article on…
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Fast Forward Sunday Times Columnist Fired For Anti-Semitic Op-ed
The British newspaper The Sunday Times has apologized after publishing a column in its Irish edition on Sunday claiming that some BBC television hosts earned high salaries because they are Jewish. The piece has been taken off the newspaper’s website and the paper’s editor issued an apology. The article, by Kevin Myers, was prompted by…
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Fast Forward Teen Repeatedly Raped By JCC Gym Trainer, Lawsuit Alleges
A woman is suing the Aaron Family Jewish Community Center in Dallas, alleging that a former fitness center employee repeatedly raped and molested her 14-year-old daughter. The lawsuit, first reported by The Dallas Morning News, alleges that when the mother told JCC CEO Artie Allen about the behavior of a 24-year-old JCC employee toward her…
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Fast Forward Senate Passes Russia/Iran/Korea Sanctions 98-2, Spurring Showdown With Trump
The Senate approved new sanctions on Russia, Iran and North Korea by a vote of 98-2 on Thursday evening, rebuking President Trump’s overtures to Moscow and forcing him to make a difficult choice — sign the bill and anger Russian President Vladimir Putin, or veto it and rebuke not only his fellow Republicans but also…
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Fast Forward Jewish High Jumper Barred From Nazi Olympics Dies at 103
Margaret Bergmann Lambert, a record-breaking athlete who was barred by the Nazis from competing for Germany in the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics because she was Jewish, died in Queens, N.Y. on Tuesday at the age of 103. Lambert was known in her athletic prime as “The Great Jewish Hope.” Then known as Gretel Bergmann, she…
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Fast Forward N.J. Town Orders Removal Of Eruv After Petition Against ‘Illegal Incursions’
A New Jersey town has ordered a Jewish group to take down a series of plastic pipes from city utility poles amid objections to the installation by local residents. The town of Mahwah, around 30 miles north of New York City, said that the South Monsey Eruv Fund had violated zoning regulations by posting PVC…
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Fast Forward Kushner Agrees To Testify Before Senate Intelligence Committee
Presidential advisor/son-in-law Jared Kushner has agreed to testify on Monday before the Senate Intelligence Committee as part of its investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 presidential election, ABC News reported Wednesday. “As Mr. Kushner has been saying since March, he has been and is prepared to voluntarily cooperate and provide whatever information he has…
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