
Aiden Pink is the Deputy News Editor for the Forward. Contact him at [email protected] or on Twitter, @aidenpink.
Aiden Pink is the Deputy News Editor for the Forward. Contact him at [email protected] or on Twitter, @aidenpink.
Police in a suburb of New York City suspect arson in a December house fire on a property tied to Moshe Lax, a longtime friend and former business partner of Ivanka Trump who is the subject of several lawsuits and a multi-million-dollar IRS judgment. The home in Monsey was owned by Lax’s family until it…
Students at a high school in Arizona were investigated last week after some pupils shared on Snapchat an image of eight people lying on the ground in the shape of a swastika. The school district governing Paradise Valley High School in Phoenix said in a statement on Thursday that the high school would investigate and…
Students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Parkland, Florida, were expecting a slightly unusual day Wednesday. It was Valentine’s Day, so in addition to bringing calculators and textbooks, some students brought balloons and candy. But the day ended up breaking everyone’s heart — in the school and across the nation — after a gunman…
Alex Schachter, a 14-year-old Jewish student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, was among the 17 people killed there by a gunman on Wednesday. Schachter’s death was announced by Congregation Beth Am, a Conservative synagogue in nearby Longwood where a friend of the family belongs. Schachter, a freshman, played the trombone in…
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida was on lockdown during the school shooting on Wednesday that left 17 people dead and many more wounded. But the outside world was able to learn what was happening in real time because of the Twitter posts of freshman Aidan Minoff. His tweets were shared thousands of…
Meadow Pollack, a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, was named among the 17 people killed by a school shooter on Wednesday. Pollack, a senior, planned to attend Lynn University in the fall. On Monday, Pollack shared a photo on Facebook of her and her grandmother, Evelyn Silverberg Pollack. “Nothing makes…
Paul Nehlen, the “alt-right” congressional candidate who was permanently banned from Twitter on Sunday after a series of racist and anti-Semitic tweets, has been dumped by the state Republican Party. Wisconsin Republican Party spokesman Alec Zimmerman said Tuesday that Nehlen’s membership dues paid to county parties were being refunded or donated to charity. “Paul Nehlen…
After being banned from Twitter, “alt-right” congressional candidate Paul Nehlen said Monday that his removal from the social media service was illegal election interference done at the behest of the Anti-Defamation League and possibly the British government. Nehlen has repeatedly associated himself with white supremacists and was previously suspended from Twitter for a week for…
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