Helen Chernikoff is the Forward’s News Editor. She came to the Forward from The Jewish Week, where she served as the first web director and created both a blog dedicated to disability issues and a food and wine website. Before that, she covered the housing, lodging and logistics industries for Reuters, where she could sit at her desk and watch her stories move the stock market. Helen has a Master’s of Public Administration from Columbia University and a BA in History and French from Amherst College. She is also a rabbinical school dropout. Contact her at [email protected] and follow her on Twitter at @thesimplechild.
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By Helen Chernikoff
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Fast Forward School Shooter ‘Trained’ With Florida White Supremacist Group
The alleged perpetrator of the most recent American mass shooting, which took place on Wednesday at a Florida high school, was a participant in a white supremacist group, reported the Anti-Defamation League. A spokesman for the group Republic of Florida told the ADL that Nikolas Cruz, 19, had participated in training exercises conducted by the…
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Fast Forward Donald Trump Tells Porn Star During ‘Affair’: You Remind Me Of Ivanka
The porn star named Stormy Daniels reportedly told a magazine six years ago that during an affair with now-President Donald Trump, he told her that she was “smart and beautiful” like his daughter Ivanka. Trump is known for making creepy comments about Ivanka, who along with husband Jared Kushner works in the White House as…
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Fast Forward New Tax Bill To Cause Challah Price Hike, Deli Man Warns
The Gray Lady visited Livingston, New Jersey last week to take the temperature of a town that’s worrying itself sick about the impact of the Republican tax bill on its home prices and broader economy. The town of about 30,000 is about half Jewish, so natch the New York Times article featured several Jewy names:…
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Fast Forward Lena Dunham Warned Hillary Clinton About Weinstein’s Treatment Of Women
Feminist allies of Hillary Clinton’s warned her before the 2016 election about movie mogul Harvey Weinstein’s treatment of women, troubled by his high profile at her side during the campaign, according to the New York Times. Both Lena Dunham, creator of the HBO series Girls and a loud voice on a range of women’s issues…
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News Met Suspends Conductor James Levine After 3 Men Accuse Him Of Sexual Harassment
Another powerful man in an iconic position at the top of his field has lost his job after being accused of sexual harassment, with one small difference — this time, the people making the allegations are also men. The Metropolitan Opera suspended its beloved conductor James Levine, 74, on Sunday, reported the New York Times,…
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Fast Forward Zuckerberg: ‘As A Jew’ I’ve Wondered My Whole Life Why Nazis Hate
The mustering of neo-Nazis and white supremacists at Charlottesville on August 12 has caused some Jews not normally known for foregrounding that part of the identity to do so. Trump consigliere Michael Cohen did so on Twitter, trying to defend himself from charges of racism-by-association. Now Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has chimed in…
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Fast Forward Trump’s Jewish Wingman: ‘Some Of My Best Friends Are Black’
President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen wants you to know that he’s not a racist, just because his boss doesn’t see much difference between white supremacists and those who protest against them, per his Tuesday remarks about the Charlottesville protests. His proof? A photo collage of Cohen with assorted African-American pals, tweeted Wednesday morning….
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Fast Forward BREAKING: Neo-Nazi Sued For Anti-Semitic ‘Troll Storm’
A human rights group is suing the publisher of the internet’s biggest neo-Nazi website, alleging that he broke the law in the state of Montana by coordinating a campaign of anti-Semitic harassment against a Jewish real estate agent living in the town of Whitefish. Andrew Anglin, who runs the Daily Stormer website, launched the campaign…
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