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 ‘Passover Fyre Fest’ Leaves Hundreds Stranded After Organizer Skips Out On Bills
Hundreds of people hoping for a fun Passover retreat were left stranded in Florida after the organizer failed to pay for more than $75,000 in goods and services, the New York Jewish Week reported Wednesday. Many Jewish families travel throughout the world for all-inclusive kosher-for-Passover stays at resorts. One experience, called “A Different Pesach Program,”…
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Fast Forward Winnipeg Mayor Calls For Linda Sarsour To Be Disinvited From Panel Event
The mayor of Winnipeg, Canada has called on a local not-for-profit to disinvite Women’s March co-leader Linda Sarsour from a panel event scheduled for Friday over the allegations of anti-Semitism against her. Flanked by representatives from local Jewish organization, mayor Brian Bowman said in a press conference on Tuesday that Sarsour’s history of “racialized identity…
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Fast Forward Chemistry Professor Takes Leave After Quizzing Students On Nazi Gas Chambers
A chemistry professor at Middlebury College in Vermont has taken a leave of absence after asking students in a test to calculate the lethal dose of poison gas used by the Nazis in the Holocaust. The test, issued at the beginning of the month, described hydrogen cyanide as “a poisonous gas, which Nazi Germany used…
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Fast Forward French Ambassador: Kushner Has ‘No Guts,’ Peace Plan ‘99% Doomed To Fail’
Outgoing French Ambassador to the United States Gerard Araud told the Atlantic on Friday that he was “close” with White House senior advisor/son-in-law Jared Kushner but that Kushner’s Middle East peace plan was likely “doomed to fail.” Araud has long been known for his outspoken nature – he tweeted after President Trump was elected in…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Promises To Name New Golan Heights Town After Trump
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that he would name a new community in the Golan Heights after President Trump, who recognized Israel’s sovereignty over the disputed area last month. “All Israelis were deeply moved when President Trump made his historic decision to recognize Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights,” Netanyahu said in a…
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Fast Forward Politician From Hitler’s Hometown Resigns Over Poem Comparing Migrants To Rats
The deputy mayor of the Austrian town where Adolf Hitler was born has resigned after writing a poem comparing migrants to rats, the Associated Press reported Tuesday. Christian Schilcher, the deputy mayor of Braunau am Inn and a member of the far-right Freedom Party, published a piece entitled “The City Rat (Rodent with Sewerage Background)”…
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Fast Forward Women’s March Calls On Twitter To Suspend Trump Over Ilhan Omar Tweets
The Women’s March organization launched a petition Tuesday calling on Facebook and Twitter to suspend President Trump for his recent social media attacks on Rep. Ilhan Omar. “Don’t give hate a platform,” the letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said. “President Trump has demonstrated time and again that he will…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Bernie Sanders Says Israel Is Run By ‘Right-Wing, Racist Government’
Presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders defended his stance on Israel at a CNN town hall on Monday, saying he is “100% pro-Israel” but renewed his criticisms of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying that the Jewish state is “now run by a right-wing — dare I say — racist government.” Speaking at a televised event…
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