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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News New Independent Jewish Student Network Seeks ‘Judaism On Our Own Terms’
Brown University junior Hal Triedman is a leader of an independent prayer group called Friday Night Jews, but he doesn’t know exactly how it started, since it was founded before he arrived on campus. He’s pretty sure it had something to do with a few students being upset with the local Hillel, the main Jewish…
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Fast Forward Trump Pardons Billionaire Friend Who Defended White Supremacist
President Trump issued a full pardon on Wednesday night to Conrad Black, a Canadian newspaper mogul who was convicted in 2007 of fraud and obstruction of justice. Black has said he is a friend of Trump’s and wrote a book last year called “Donald J. Trump: A President Like No Other.” Black has also written…
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Fast Forward Harvard Student Magazine Apologizes For ‘Sexualizing Anne Frank’
A humor magazine published by Harvard University students apologized Tuesday after publishing a Photoshopped image of Anne Frank in a bikini, which was condemned by students and Jewish community leaders. The Harvard Lampoon’s sexed-up image of the child Holocaust victim ran alongside the captions “Gone Before Her Time: Virtual Aging Technology Shows Us What Anne…
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Fast Forward Hitler-Obsessed Rapper Accused Of Driving Stolen Truck Into Two Government Buildings
A Canadian part-time rapper obsessed with Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler was accused of multiple criminal counts after allegedly driving a stolen truck into two government buildings and vandalizing one of them with anti-Semitic slurs, the CBC reported Tuesday. Kelvin Zawadiuk of Edson, Alberta, has been charged with public incitement of hatred, breaking and entering, dangerous…
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Fast Forward Richard Spencer: ‘Charlottesville Wouldn’t Have Occurred Without Trump’
The massive white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017 would not have been possible without President Trump, event leader Richard Spencer told The Atlantic. The magazine published what it called “An Oral History Of Trump’s Bigotry,” documenting decades of statements and actions evincing bias. A chapter about the Charlottesville rally featured Spencer, the creator…
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Fast Forward Jewish Fraternity At Hofstra Suspended For Forcing Puppy To Drink Beer
The Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity at Hofstra University in New York has been suspended after a video was released on social media appearing to show members forcing a puppy to drink from a beer keg, Newsday reported Monday. The video shows a man holding the dog upside-down above an open keg as beer squirts into…
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Fast Forward Stephen Miller Pushed For Mass Arrests Of Migrant Families Across America
White House senior advisor Stephen Miller advocated for a secret plan to conduct a “blitz” arrest of thousands of migrant families, The Washington Post reported Monday. The plan, which would have required coordinated arrests in people’s homes in 10 of the largest cities in the country, including New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, was nixed…
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Fast Forward 22-Year-Old Woman Accused Of Posting Nazi Propaganda At California High School
A 22-year-old woman has been charged with posting neo-Nazi propaganda on the walls of an Orange County, California high school earlier this year, the Orange County Register reported Monday. Grace Elisabeth Ziesmer is accused of two counts of graffiti and one count of vandalism, which allegedly took place at Newport Harbor High School as well…
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