Aiden Pink is the Deputy News Editor for the Forward. Contact him at [email protected] or on Twitter, @aidenpink.
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By Aiden Pink
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News Lee Harvey Oswald? ‘I Was A Better Shot Than Him.’
Lee Harvey Oswald is known as the crack marksman who killed President Kennedy from 88 yards away 54 years ago on Wednesday, but Aron Vigushin, who went shooting with Oswald years before that, was surprised to hear of his friend’s involvement. Vigushin was a 23-year-old Jewish resident of Minsk when he was introduced to Oswald,…
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Fast Forward Richard Spencer Kicked Out Of Farm Halfway Through Event
A conference organized by white nationalist Richard Spencer on a farm this weekend was quickly curtailed after the farm owners discovered his role in the event. Spencer’s think tank, the National Policy Institute, hosted around 100 people at an events space at Rocklands Farm in Maryland on Saturday, The Washington Post reported. The event space…
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Fast Forward Turkey Poop Can Help The Planet Go Green, Israeli Scientists Find
Here’s a fun fact for the Thanksgiving dinner table: Saving the planet could come down to turkey droppings. Researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev published a study determining that poultry excrement could be effectively converted to biofuels and replace approximately 10 percent of coal used in electricity — providing an alternative energy and reducing…
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Fast Forward 23andMe CEO’s Complicated Friendship With Ivanka Trump
Anne Wojcicki, CEO of the genetic testing company 23andMe, opened up to The New York Times on Saturday about her former marriage to Google co-founder Sergey Brin, her relationship with former New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez and the role that Ivanka Trump played in helping her recover from divorce. After Brin cheated on her…
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Fast Forward Rabbi Shares Her #MeToo Moment About Sexual Harassment At Shul
A rabbi at one of the largest synagogues in the United Kingdom came forward last week with details of sexual harassment that she and female rabbinic colleagues had received from their own congregants, urging the community to pay closer attention to the issue. Rabbi Hannah Kingston of North Western Reform Synagogue in London said in…
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Books Children’s Alphabet Book ‘P Is For Palestine’ Includes ‘I Is For Intifada’
A is for argument, which has been started About a new kids’ book that only just charted. It’s called “P is For Palestine,” and it’s been bought coast-to-coast To the anger of Jewish moms found by the Post. B is for book talk on the Upper West Side, Which scribe Golbarg Bashi attempted with pride….
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Fast Forward Writer Quits Lena Dunham Project: ‘It’s Time For Women of Color To Divest’
Author Zinzi Clemmons announced Sunday that she would no longer be contributing to Lena Dunham’s newsletter “Lenny Letter” in response to the growing controversy over Dunham’s defense of a “Girls” writer accused of rape. Actress Aurora Perrineau filed a police report last week alleging that Murray Miller had sexually assaulted her in 2012, when she…
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Fast Forward Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin Flattered By Bond Villain Comparisons
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, a multimillionaire former banker and Hollywood producer, said that he enjoyed being compared to a James Bond bad guy after an image of him and his wife went viral last week. Mnuchin and wife Louise Linton posed with new dollar bills bearing his signature at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing…
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