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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Fast Forward Steve Bannon Denounces McCain’s Funeral, Calls It ‘High Holy Days’
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon was frequently accused of publishing anti-Semitic dog whistles when he ran Breitbart News, which he bragged in 2016 was “the platform for the alt-right.” Now some are seeing one of his latest interview as yet another call-out to Jew-haters. Asked by the Daily Beast about his thoughts on…
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News Trump Turns Rosh Hashanah Tradition Into Scripted Right-Wing Lovefest
Updated 3:50 p.m. President Trump’s annual pre-Rosh Hashanah phone call to Jewish groups on Thursday lasted only 20 minutes but featured four allies singing his praises to an audience far more right-wing than calls under past administrations. Similar calls under President Obama featured longer back-and-forth conversations — and sometimes tough questions from rabbis. Trump’s first…
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News A Very Jewish Town Feuds Over Israel Like Only Jews Can
Newton, Massachusetts is one of the most Jewish cities in the United States, with Jews making up between 20-30% of the Boston suburb’s population. Newton is so Jewish that there’s a part of town with three synagogues in a one-block radius. Newton is so Jewish that its Jewish population is not only mentioned on its…
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Fast Forward Event Trying To Show Labour Party Isn’t Anti-Semitic Scheduled For Yom Kippur
Updated September 3rd A group hoping to defend British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn from mounting public claims that he is an anti-Semite scheduled an event to defend him on September 18 — which happens to be Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. The event, called “Corbyn, Antisemitism and Justice for Palestine,”…
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Fast Forward What Was Louis Farrakhan Doing At Aretha Franklin’s Funeral?
Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan — who has for decades been criticized for anti-Semitism and homophobia — had a prominent place on the dais at Aretha Franklin’s star-studded funeral, sitting three seats away from former president Bill Clinton. Farrakhan wrote in The Final Call, the Nation of Islam’s newspaper, that Franklin had shown support…
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News Remembering Rabbi Rachel Cowan, The ‘Mother Of Jewish Healing’
The Jewish community is extending its condolences to the family of Rabbi Rachel Cowan, an innovative American Jewish leader who died Friday at the age of 77. Here’s what the Forward has written about her over the years: Cowan wasn’t born Jewish. She comes from a family that traces its roots all the way back…
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News Durham JCC Calls Police On Jewish Group That’s Critical Of Israel
Jewish community tensions over the Durham, North Carolina city council’s April vote to ban police officers from educational programs in Israel spilled over last week after police escorted two members of the group Jewish Voice for Peace out of the Jewish Community Center when they tried to hand out flyers criticizing local Jewish leaders. The…
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Fast Forward Kushner Companies Fined More Than $200K For Filing False Documents
The real estate company of Jared Kushner was given a $210,000 fine by New York City regulators for filing dozens of false housing permits, the Associated Press reported Monday. The AP had reported earlier this year that the Kushner Companies had filed at least 80 permits in which they falsely claimed that there were no…
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