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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News Shabbat services go virtual as governors across U.S. ban large gatherings
Synagogues across the country have taken steps to limit Shabbat services and other religious events after governors of three of the states with the largest Jewish populations announced bans on large gatherings. View an updated list of streaming services here. In New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared a ban on gatherings of 500 or more…
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Fast Forward Sanders trumpets Jewish support as primary campaign heads to Florida
Sen. Bernie Sanders is highlighting the support that he’s receiving from American Jews ahead of presidential primaries on Tuesday in states like Florida which have large Jewish populations. On Wednesday, the campaign sent out a press release highlighting the endorsement of the progressive Jewish group IfNotNow. “IfNotNow is building an inspiring movement of young Jews…
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News Need To Know: Coronavirus in the Jewish community
The United States has seen nearly 1,000 cases of the COVID-19 coronavirus, which the World Health Organization characterized Wednesday as a pandemic — and the biggest outbreak in the U.S. is in Jewish community of New Rochelle, N.Y., just outside New York City. Also among the infected: a Jewish non-profit professional in Cleveland, several attendees…
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Fast Forward ‘Even though he’s a Jew’ Sanders is honorable, said Imam who spoke at Sanders rally
An imam who spoke at a Bernie Sanders campaign rally in Michigan once said that he thought Sanders was an honorable man, “even though he is a Jew.” Imam Sayed Hassan Qazwini of the Islamic Institute of America was one of several figures who spoke before Sanders at a rally in Dearborn, Mich. on Saturday….
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Israel News Israel’s coronavirus quarantine means expats, tourists must cancel travel plans
Dana Naomy Mills is an Israeli academic living in Oxford, Great Britain. She makes a point to fly home every year for Passover. “Oxford has a tiny Jewish community, and so it’s hard to get matzot, and basic things to make you feel at home,” she said. “I’m a matzah brei addict,” she added, referring…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Nazi flag unfurls as Bernie Sanders says hello at rally in Arizona
Editor’s Note: Read an interview with one of the rally participants who encountered the man with the flag here. Updated 2:30 p.m. A protester disrupted Sen. Bernie Sanders’ campaign rally in Phoenix on Thursday by waving a Nazi flag. “It was absolutely wild,” Brianna Westbrook, a national surrogate for the Sanders campaign, told The Washington…
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Fast Forward Schumer steps up and gets slammed for saying justices will ‘pay the price’
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer was criticized after saying Wednesday that President Trump’s appointees to the Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, would “pay the price” for ruling against abortion rights in a high-profile case currently before the justices. “I want to tell you, Gorsuch; I want to tell you, Kavanaugh: You have released…
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News ‘Mensch’ Joe Biden sees surge in Jewish support
Many American Jewish leaders may be able to talk about the first time they met Joe Biden – the guy has, after all, been a fixture in Washington for 44 years – but Rabbi Michael Beals’ story is a doozy: He met Biden at a shiva call. In 2006, Biden was still a Democratic Senator…
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