Aiden Pink is the Deputy News Editor for the Forward. Contact him at pink@forward.com or on Twitter, @aidenpink.
Aiden Pink
By Aiden Pink
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News Muslims Have Raised Lots Of Money For Jews Recently. Here’s Where It’s Going.
Updated November 26 CelebrateMercy is a small Muslim not-for-profit with only three full-time staffers, but in the past year and a half, it has created crowdfunding campaigns that have raised $400,000 for Jewish cemeteries, synagogues and a Holocaust memorial. The campaigns started in February 2017, after more than 100 headstones were overturned at a Jewish…
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News L.A. Braces For Biggest Ever Pro-Palestinian Student Conference
Students for Justice in Palestine, the biggest pro-Palestinian student movement in the country, is holding its annual conference this weekend. It will convene from November 16-18 on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles — which has one of the largest Jewish student populations in the country. Predictably, controversy has ensued. National Jewish…
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News Muslim Trailblazer Ilhan Omar Admits She Backs BDS — Now That Election Is Over
Updated November 13 Tuesday marked the start of “freshman orientation” in Washington, D.C., where new members of Congress arrived to meet their colleagues and learn how the House and Senate actually work. Rep.-elect Ilhan Omar, a Democrat from Minneapolis and one of the first Muslim women elected to Congress, quickly met up with some of…
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News Rifts Deepen Over Women’s March Ties To Farrakhan
Rabbi Rebecca Einstein Schorr said her local Women’s March in 2017 was “exhilarating” and “amazing” — a precious memory, until she learned that the march’s national leaders had met with and praised Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. They also refused to repudiate him, despite his anti-Semitic and homophobic remarks. Schorr will not be attending…
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Fast Forward More Than 56,000 Vote For Nazi Leader In Illinois Congressional Race
Neo-Nazi Arthur Jones lost his longshot bid for an Illinois congressional seat on Tuesday. But he still received more than 56,000 votes. Jones, a former American Nazi Party leader, ran as a Republican candidate in the heavily-Democratic Third District outside Chicago. He was able to make the ballot because he was the only person to…
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News What Do The Midterms Mean For Israel? Not Much Is Going To Change — Probably
Rashida Tlaib, who won her Detroit-area House of Representatives race on Tuesday, is a history maker in more ways than one. Not only is she the first Palestinian-American woman elected to Congress, she also supports cutting military aid to Israel and the controversial boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement. Tlaib cruised her way to Washington,…
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Fast Forward Trump Fires Jeff Sessions — Is Rosenstein Next In Push To End Mueller Probe?
President Trump forced out Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday, increasing the possibility that the president could also sideline Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who is overseeing special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into foreign interference in the 2016 presidential election. “We are pleased to announce that Matthew G. Whitaker, Chief of Staff to Attorney General…
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Breaking News Nadler Could Run Impeachment In House As Jewish Democrats Sweep Top Committees
With Democrats grabbing control of the House of Representatives, Rep. Jerry Nadler will become the chairman of the Judiciary Committee — and could preside over impeachment proceedings against President Trump. Several other Jewish memebers of Congress are expected to take over key committees such as foreign affairs and the panel that allocates spending. Democrats rode…
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