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 San Francisco Community Space Sees Protests Because Owner Is A ‘Zionist’
Manny’s, a new business in San Francisco’s Mission District, is part cafe, part bookstore, part political event hall. Owner Manny Yekutiel, a 29-year-old rising star in the world of liberal political organizing, calls it a “civic social gathering space.” It’s hosted incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, San Francisco Mayor London Breed, activists with Black Lives…
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News EXCLUSIVE: 3 Jewish Groups Work With Women’s March On Anti-Semitism
Three progressive Jewish organizations have been advising the Women’s March behind the scenes on its well-publicized issues with anti-Semitism and a sometimes-fraught relationship with the Jewish community, the Forward has learned. The National Council of Jewish Women, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice and Bend the Arc: Jewish Action are working with the Women’s March…
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Fast Forward Three Baltimore Shuls Receive Suspicious Packages, Two Ill After Opening Letter
Public safety officials responded to three separate calls from Baltimore-area Jewish institutions about suspicious packages on Monday. Two employees of the Pauline Mash School For Early Childhood Education, a Jewish preschool operated by Beth El Synagogue in Pikesville, became ill after opening an envelope sent to the shul, the Baltimore Sun reported. The nature of…
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Fast Forward Airbnb Denies Israeli Claim That It’s Reversing Its Settlement Ban
Update 3:55 p.m. Airbnb denied claims made by Israel’s Ministry of Tourism that the hospitality company was reversing its month-old policy of banning listings of properties in West Bank settlements,. After a meeting in Jerusalem on Monday between Israeli government officials and a delegation from the company, Tourism Minister Yariv Levin announced that Airbnb had…
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News Local Women’s Marches Worry National Leaders’ Troubles Will Sink Their Events
Multiple times over the past year, as leaders of the national Women’s March organizations became embroiled in controversy over their ties to the anti-Semitic Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, many of the dozens of local Women’s Marches around the country have tried to do damage control. Some have done so by condemning the national…
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News The Rise And Fall And Rise Of Jewish Comedian Leah Forster
Leah Forster is the Orthodox world’s favorite lesbian Jewish comedian. Admittedly, there’s not much competition for that title. But for nearly a decade, Forster was one of the most popular entertainers in the community, until she walked away from the business and her strict ultra-observant lifestyle. Now she’s making a comeback in both the religious…
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Fast Forward Nazi Posters Found On Campus At SUNY Purchase
Nazi-themed posters were found on campus at Purchase College in New York on Sunday, the last night of Hanukkah. The posters had images of Adolf Hitler and a swastika, a university spokeswoman told the Rockland/Westchester Journal News on Monday. The university police has identified a suspect, the school’s officer in charge and vice president for…
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Fast Forward Rabbis Force Brooklyn Kosher Restaurants To Cancel Show With Lesbian Comic
A popular Jewish comedian has twice been forced to find new locations for her show after Brooklyn rabbis threatened to revoke the kosher status of the restaurants that had been booked because she is a lesbian. Leah Forster, who grew up in the Hasidic community and frequently pokes fun at Orthodox habits and lifestyles, was…
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