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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Fast Forward BDS Campaign Wins Historic Victory At University Of Michigan On 11th Attempt
The student government at the University of Michigan passed a resolution early Wednesday morning that for the first time called on the school to investigate divesting from companies that do business in Israel, a possible watershed moment at a school with notably large Jewish and Arab-American populations. The vote, which passed 23-17 with five abstentions,…
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Fast Forward Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin Is Living His Best Life
At this time last year, Steven Mnuchin was best known as the producer of critically reviled films like “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” and “Suicide Squad.” But now, he’s in the money — literally. Mnuchin, now the Treasury Secretary, toured the Bureau of Engraving and Printing on Wednesday along with his wife Louise Linton…
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Fast Forward Roy Moore Race Sees Robocalls From Fake Jewish Reporter ‘Bernie Bernstein’
The Alabama Senate race, already rocked by allegations of pedophilia, just got even crazier, thanks to a mysterious robocaller going by the name “Bernie Bernstein.” WKRG, a TV station in Mobile, Alabama, reported Tuesday that at least one person had received a robocall from “Bernstein,” who claimed to be a Washington Post reporter willing to…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Survivors Celebrate Bar Mitzvahs 70 Years Later — At Western Wall
More than 40 Holocaust survivors who were never able to celebrate their bar or bat mitzvahs finally did so last week — at the Western Wall. The event, coordinated by the Western Wall Heritage Foundation, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews and Israel’s Office for Social Equality, was welcomed by participants who never got…
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Fast Forward Can You Help This Synagogue Solve The Meaning Of Its Mysterious Amulet?
A Reform synagogue in suburban London is in possession of a mysterious amulet — and the synagogue is looking for the public’s help in deciphering it. Barry Hyman, president of Radlett Reform Synagogue, wrote in the Jewish Chronicle about a graphic of unknown age and origin that was “dumped anonymously in the shul.” It is…
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Fast Forward Brooklyn Hebrew Israelite Synagogue Destroyed By Fire
A prominent Hebrew Israelite synagogue in Brooklyn was heavily damaged in a fire on Tuesday after a worker wielding a welding torch on the roof accidentally set the building ablaze. The fire at Bnai Adath Kol Beth Yisrael in Bedford-Stuyvesant began at around 9:10 a.m., the Daily News reported. The fire lasted more than two…
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Fast Forward Hebrew National Answers To A Higher Authority Than Fox News — Or Roy Moore
Hebrew National hot dogs announced Monday that it had pulled advertising from Sean Hannity’s Fox News program, the latest corporation to withdraw from sponsoring the conservative host amid his controversial coverage of the Alabama Senate race. Hannity’s interview Friday with the Republican candidate Roy Moore — who has been accused of having sexual relations with…
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Fast Forward Jewish Millionaires Tell Congress: Don’t Cut Our Taxes!
More than 400 millionaires and billionaires have signed a letter urging Congressional Republicans not to cut their taxes. The letter, organized by the nonprofits United for a Fair Economy and Voices for Progress, urges Congress not to pass a tax bill that “further exacerbates inequality.” The letter claims that the bills working their way through…
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