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.
Helen Chernikoff
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Fast Forward Stephen Miller Helped Sink Trump’s ‘Muslim Ban’ 2.0
President Donald Trump has cheered the performance of top aide Steven Miller when he’s gone on television to support the president’s ban on travel from a group of Muslim majority countries. Congratulations Stephen Miller- on representing me this morning on the various Sunday morning shows. Great job! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 12, 2017…
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News Trump Lashes Out At Ultra-Orthodox Reporter After Softball Question About Anti-Semitism
A reporter for a small ultra-Orthodox publication’s dream turned into a nightmare today when President Trump called on him during a rare solo press conference — and then slammed him. The reporter, Jake Turx, had long wanted to participate in such a high-level event, even publicly begging spokesman Sean Spicer to call on him. He…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Did Kellyanne Conway Just Break The Law Shilling For Ivanka?
“Go buy Ivanka’s stuff, is what I would tell you,” Kellyanne Conway said on Fox News. “I hate shopping, but I’m going to go get some for myself today.” The first daughter formally severed ties with her businesses, including her eponymous clothing lines, when Donald Trump was elected. But several retailers who used to carry…
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Breaking News SCOTUS Nominee’s High School ‘Fascism Forever Club’ In His Name Was a Joke
The “Fascism Forever Club” that the Daily Mail stated President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch founded in high school was actually a joke, according to fact-checking website Snopes.com. A spokesman for the school told Snopes that such a club never operated there, and Snopes also quoted America, a Jesuit magazine, which stated that…
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Fast Forward SCOTUS Nominee Neil Gorsuch Founded ‘Fascism Forever Club’ in High School
Update: According to fact-checking website Snopes.com, the “Fascism Forever Club” mentioned on Neil Gorsuch’s yearbook page and cited by the Daily Mail in its article was a joke. For more information, click here. As a high school student in the 1980s, President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch was so riled by the liberal…
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News BREAKING: Jews March, Bearing Signs Playful, Solemn and Defiant
“I am here because Women’s rights are humans rights,” said Rachel, 59, (left), who came to the Washington, D.C. march with a big group of Jewish women. The Metro trains into Washington, D.C. from the suburbs were packed with pink pussy hats. Friends smile as the crowd gathers at the Women’s March on Washington, the…
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News Inspired by Ancient Practice, Rabbi Leads Interfaith Inauguration Day Fast
Jews fast on Yom Kippur, the annual day of atonement — but not only then. The tradition includes age-old and modern instances of fasts called to plead for rain, and one still on the calendar that mourns the assassination of a righteous government official about 2,500 years ago. Rabbi Burt Visotzky of the Jewish Theological…
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Fast Forward Enraged Donald Trump Compares United States to Nazi Germany
Incensed at news reports that the Russian government holds compromising information about Donald Trump, the president-elect vented his anger on Twitter on Wednesday morning, including a comparison of the United States to Nazi Germany, the fascist state led by Adolf Hitler that killed about 15 million civilians, including 6 million Jews. Intelligence agencies should never…
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