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 Is This Jewish Doctor Secretly A White Nationalist?
A Jewish doctor at a New York City hospital has been “placed off duty” after an article posted online Monday claimed that he was Facebook friends with white supremacists and had frequently commented on some of the web’s most high-profile hate sites, including the writing of “A Jewish Defense of Anti-Semitism” and approving reflections on…
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Fast Forward 7-Year-Old Chess Prodigy Banned From World Championships Because She’s Israeli
A seven-year-old Israeli chess prodigy will not be able to participate in the World Chess Championship because the host country, Tunisia, will not allow Israelis to compete, the Times of Israel reported Saturday. Schoolgirl Liel Levitan will instead participate in the World Alternative Championship, which is currently being crowdfunded via a campaign led by fellow…
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Fast Forward Google Translate Keeps Spitting Out Creepy Religious Prophecies
Does a new trend involve goofing around with Google Translate show something silly – or sinister? That’s what Vice wanted to know when they asked Google about something strange they had discovered: If you input random or meaningless words, the process doesn’t return gibberish back, but rather what appears to be knockoff biblical prophecy. For…
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Fast Forward U.K. Jewish Group Gives Info About Occupation To Birthright Groups At Airport
The debate over how Birthright Israel trips talk (or don’t talk) about Palestinians has gone global, with the latest action taking place in London. A new British Jewish group called Na’amod: British Jews Against Occupation traveled to Luton Airport on Sunday to hand out informational materials about the occupation to departing Birthright participants. The group…
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News Don’t Vote For Our Anti-Semitic Nominee, California Republican Party Says
The California Republican Party and its top statewide candidate are urging citizens in the 11th Congressional District not to vote for the party’s nominee because of his anti-Semitic statements and Holocaust denial. John Fitzgerald was the only Republican running in the reliably-Democratic district’s all-party primary last month, earning himself just under 25% of the vote…
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Fast Forward GOP Congressional Nominee Seth Grossman Shared White Nationalist Articles
New Jersey Republican congressional nominee Seth Grossman used his Facebook account to share articles from well-known white nationalist websites, Media Matters reported Monday. One article, published on the white nationalist website American Renaissance and shared in 2014, claimed that black people “are different by almost any measure to all other people. They cannot reason as…
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Fast Forward Gal Gadot Visits Children’s Hospital Dressed As Wonder Woman
Gal Gadot might really be a superhero. The Israeli actress, taking a break from filming “Wonder Woman 1984” in Virginia, visited a nearby children’s hospital in full costume. Gadot met with patients, parents and staffers at Inova Hospital in Falls Church. She even brought gifts, including toys, coloring and autographed pictures. #NEW – 06/07/18 –…
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Fast Forward Rabbis Say Trump Hotel Should Lose Liquor License Over ‘Good Character’ Law
Two Washington, D.C. rabbis have filed a complaint claiming that the local government should revoke the liquor license of the Trump International Hotel because President Trump is not a person of “good character,” which the law requires. The complaint, which was filed to the district’s Alcoholic Beverage Control Board last month, claims that Trump fails…
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