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 One In Five Americans Say It’s Okay For Businesses To Refuse To Serve Jews
Nearly 20% of Americans say that it’s acceptable for business owners to refuse to serve Jews if doing so would violate their religious beliefs, according to a new survey from the Public Religion Research Institute. The 19% who said such discrimination was acceptable is up from 2014, when 12% thought it was okay. Support for…
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Fast Forward German Locals Buy Town’s Entire Beer Supply To Dry Out Neo-Nazi Festival
Neo-Nazis visiting a small town in Germany for a far-right festival were forced to go without beer after police confiscated more than a thousand gallons and locals worked together to buy the rest of the town’s supply from supermarkets ahead of time, the BBC reported Monday. Police seized 4,200 liters of beer on Friday after…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Jewish Congresswoman Urges Struggling People To Seek Help On Anniversary Of Partner’s Death
Speaking from the floor of the House of Representatives, Rep. Susan Wild of Pennsylvania tearfully revealed on Tuesday night that her life partner had died by suicide the previous month, and urged people struggling with mental health issues to seek help. “Why am I sharing this very personal story? Because we all need to recognize…
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News Chicago’s Orthodox Neighborhood Is Kvelling — About Their New Gay, Black Mayor
The Jewish community in Chicago is one of the biggest in the country, and until recently, the mayor was Jewish, but leaders in the city’s largest Orthodox neighborhood said that a mayor hadn’t come to meet them there for decades – until June 15, that is. Lori Lightfoot, who took office last month, is the…
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Fast Forward 2020 Candidate Marianne Williamson: Trump’s Immigration Raids Are Like Nazi Germany
Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson compared President Trump’s promised immigration raids to Nazi Germany during a campaign appearance in New Hampshire on Tuesday, Vice News reported. Williamson, an author and motivational speaker, made her comments the same day that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attracted criticism for comparing migrant detention facilities on the Mexican border to concentration…
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Fast Forward Lawyer With White Nationalist Ties Got Op-Eds Published In Wall Street Journal
An attorney with a history of ties to white nationalists has had several op-eds published in major media outlets like the Wall Street Journal over the past two years, BuzzFeed News reported Tuesday. Marcus Epstein, who once founded an anti-immigration political club with white nationalist leader Richard Spencer, has had more than a dozen pieces…
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Fast Forward Does Israel Violate Human Rights? Here’s What Top Democratic Candidates Say.
Over the past few months, The New York Times has asked 22 Democratic presidential candidates to sit down with their video cameras and answer 18 short but revealing questions. Many of the questions were hard-hitting policy queries like “In an ideal world, would anyone own handguns?” and “Should tech giants like Facebook, Amazon and Google…
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Fast Forward John Cusack Posts Anti-Semitic Meme, Says He Was Trying To Support Palestinians
Actor John Cusack posted an anti-Semitic meme on Twitter on Monday night, before deleting the post and trying to explain that he thought it would show support for Palestinian rights. The image featured a hand with a Star of David crushing a mass of people below, along with the quote “To learn who rules over…
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