Aiden Pink is the Deputy News Editor for the Forward. Contact him at pink@forward.com or on Twitter, @aidenpink.
Aiden Pink
By Aiden Pink
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Fast Forward Arrest Warrant Issued For Imam Who Called For Jews To Be Killed
Canadian authorities have issued an arrest warrant for a Palestinian-Jordanian imam who made anti-Semitic statements at a mosque in Montreal last year, the Montreal Gazette reported Sunday. Sheikh Muhammad ibn Musa Al Nasr is being charged with willful promotion of hatred. In his guest lecture in December 2016 at the Dar Al-Araqm mosque, he called…
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Fast Forward Trump Lawyer Marc Kasowitz Goes On Profanity-Filled Email Rant
The attorney handling President Trump’s defense related to the Russia investigation threatened a stranger in a series of profanity-laced emails, the news website ProPublica reported Thursday. The recipient of the emails, whom ProPublic described as “a retired public relations professional in the western United States who asked not to be identified,” had sent Kasowitz an…
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Fast Forward Music Promoter Who Arranged Russia Meeting Met Donald Trump In Vegas In 2013
Rob Goldstone, the Jewish-British music promoter who arranged a meeting last year between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer promising dirt on Hillary Clinton, had previously met now-President Trump in Las Vegas in June 2013, CNN reported Wednesday. Videos obtained by the network show Trump dining and speaking with Goldstone, his client the Russian…
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Fast Forward Rep. Brad Sherman Files Article Of Impeachment Against Trump
Democratic Rep. Brad Sherman on Wednesday became the first member of Congress to formally introduce an article of impeachment against President Trump. The filing accuses the president of violating his oath of office and committing “high crimes and misdemeanors.” It specifically claims that Trump obstructed justice by firing FBI Director James Comey and otherwise thwarting…
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Fast Forward 50 KKK Members Rally In Virginia, Surrounded By 1,000 Counter-Protesters
Around 1,000 people showed up to protest a Ku Klux Klan rally at a public park in Charlottesville, Va. on Saturday that only drew around 50 white nationalists. The rally was mostly peaceful, with local and state police maintaining separation between the two groups — which upset some anti-KKK protesters, who chanted “Cops and the…
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Fast Forward Jewish Mayor of Charlottesville Girds For KKK Rally
The Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan plan to rally in Charlottesville, Virginia this on Saturday to protest the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from a city park. The city approved the rally in Justice Park on free speech grounds. But Mayor Michael Signer encouraged most people to…
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Fast Forward Jewish Philanthropist May ‘Suspend’ Aid To Israel Over Diaspora Controversies
A leading philanthropist for Israeli and American Jewish causes announced early Sunday that he will no longer fund Israeli projects in protest of the country’s recent decisions regarding the Western Wall and the status of non-Orthodox conversions. He then clarified later that day that he was only considering “suspending” his philanthropy. Florida real estate magnate…
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Fast Forward Israeli Ultra-Orthodox Parties Aim To Block Egalitarian Section At Western Wall
The ultra-Orthodox parties in Israel’s governing coalition are pushing a resolution that will repeal the decision to create an egalitarian section at the Western Wall, The Jerusalem Post reported Sunday. The move by Shas and United Torah Judaism would continue to allow egalitarian prayer at the Robinson’s Arch complex, but would not approve the creation…
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