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 How Tabloid King David Pecker Turned On Trump — Like Michael Cohen
Like Michael Cohen, David J. Pecker was once one of President Trump’s closest allies. The National Enquirer boss turned his powerful supermarket tabloids into a veritable Bible of dirt aimed at Hillary Rodham Clinton — and allegedly protected Trump over the years from negative stories peddled by women who claimed to have had tawdry sexual…
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News 5 Things To Know About Lanny Davis, Michael Cohen’s Jewish Lawyer
Michael Cohen served for many years as President Trump’s loyal personal lawyer. But after Cohen pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to a series of crimes including tax fraud, bank fraud and campaign finance violations, more attention began to be cast on Cohen’s own personal lawyer, Lanny Davis — especially after Davis told multiple media…
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Israel News How Did A Youth Group Rabbi Become David Friedman’s Top Aide At Embassy In Israel?
David Friedman’s nomination as President Trump’s ambassador to Israel raised a lot of eyebrows last year — not only due to Friedman’s harsh condemnations of liberal Jewish groups and his financial support for Israeli settlements, but also because his background was in bankruptcy law and not international relations or diplomacy, as was true of all…
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Fast Forward Trump Speechwriter Attended Conference With White Nationalists
Updated 5:00 p.m. A speechwriter for President Trump no longer works at the White House after CNN reported Sunday that he had attended a conference popular with white nationalists. CNN revealed that speechwriter Darren Beattie had been listed as speaking at the 2016 H.L. Mencken Club Conference, named after the legendary early 20th-century journalist whose…
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Fast Forward Florida Official Joel Greenberg Under Fire For Islamophobic Facebook Post
An elected official in the Orlando area is facing calls to resign after he wrote a post on Facebook questioning whether Muslims add anything to society. “Very simple question,” Seminole County Tax Collector Joel Greenberg wrote on Saturday. “Name just ONE society in the developed world that has benefited in ANY WAY from the introduction…
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Life 18 Best Colleges For Jewish Life
What do you need for Jewish life to thrive on campus? Start with having lots of Jewish students — the fact that you need a minyan of ten people to properly pray shows how much Judaism values coming together. Add thriving Hillel and Chabad chapters to provide a wide variety of popular religious and cultural…
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Life Love Israel? These 21 Colleges Are For You
It can be tough to be a Zionist on campus. Israel’s popularity is dropping among Millennials, and the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign appears to be growing in strength on campuses. At the same time, there have never been more options to engage with Israel at universities — from going on Birthright, to taking classes…
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Life 33 Universities With Great Jewish Scholarships
As the cost of attending college continues to increase faster than inflation, the question of how to afford four years of university weighs heavily on students and parents. Many organizations offer scholarships and essay contests that can provide a bit of help in paying for tuition and textbooks. Some of them can be quite specific,…
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