Aiden Pink is the Deputy News Editor for the Forward. Contact him at pink@forward.com or on Twitter, @aidenpink.
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By Aiden Pink
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Fast Forward Treasury Secretary Mnuchin’s Dad Brought To Tears Over Son’s Work For Trump
The father of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin nearly started crying when asked a question about his son, The New York Times reported Sunday. Robert Mnuchin, an art dealer, was in the news because he had arranged a $91.1 million auction purchase of a 3-foot-tall stainless steel rabbit sculpture by artist Jeff Koons – making it…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Should Do More To Help Jonathan Pollard, Says Jonathan Pollard
Jonathan Pollard, the American man who served 30 years in prison for spying for Israel, said in an interview that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should be doing more to help him, the Times of Israel reported Tuesday. Pollard, who took up Israeli citizenship while imprisoned, was paroled in 2015 but was banned from leaving…
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Fast Forward L’Chaim! Israeli Scientists Brew Beer From 5,000-Year-Old Yeast
Israeli scientists were able to brew beer from ancient strains of yeast excavated from archaeological sites, with one flavor coming from a 5,000-year-old sample, the Times of Israel reported. A group of scientists led by biologists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, as well a local brewmaster, were able to sequence the DNA of six…
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Fast Forward JCC Basketball Coach Charged With Punching 10-Year-Old
A basketball coach at a Jewish community center on Long Island was arrested and charged with assault and endangering the welfare of a child after allegedly punching a 10-year-old, News 12 Long Island reported Monday. The incident allegedly took place at the Sid Jacobson Jewish Community Center in Greenvale. According to police, the boy said…
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Fast Forward SDSU Women’s Center Apologizes For Sharing Photo Of Palestinian Terrorist
The Women’s Resource Center at San Diego State University apologized last week for including a photo of a Palestinian terrorist in its weekly newsletter, the student newspaper The Daily Aztec reported. The photo featured airplane hijacker Leila Khaled holding a gun with the caption, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” It…
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Fast Forward Michael Cohen Says Trump’s Attorney Told Him To Give False Testimony
One of President Trump’s lawyers told Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about the timeline of a Trump Tower project in Moscow, Cohen told the House Intelligence Committee earlier this year. In closed-door testimony before the House Intelligence Committee in February – two months after he was sentenced to three years in prison for, among…
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Fast Forward Polish Politician Puts Kippah On Rival, Says Her Party ‘Kneels To Jews’
A political debate in Poland devolved into anti-Semitic antics after far-right candidates tried to put a kippah on the head of a rival politician, saying that her party “kneels before the Jews,” the Times of Israel reported Sunday. One candidate from the far-right Confederation group put a kippah in front of the woman representing the…
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News An Orthodox Teenager Is Running The Most Unorthodox Presidential Campaign
The 2020 presidential race is only a few months underway and has already seen many firsts among its major candidates, including the first Asian-American, Hindu and openly gay contenders. It’s also the first race where a serious candidate’s campaign manager is a teenager – let alone a teenager who’s equally comfortable quoting classic “Simpsons” episodes…
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