Aiden Pink is the Deputy News Editor for the Forward. Contact him at [email protected] or on Twitter, @aidenpink.
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Fast Forward Did Jewish Billionaire Donate $200M To Build ‘Fake Science’ Homeopathy Center?
The University of California, Irvine has accepted a $200 million donation to its medical program from a couple that critics believe want to use their philanthropy to promote fake science. The donation earlier this month by Henry and Susan Samueli, the owners of the Anaheim Ducks hockey team, is the largest in school history. A…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Holocaust Survivor Explains Why She Forgave Dr. Mengele
A Holocaust survivor explained in a video for BuzzFeed that has been watched more than 40 million times why she forgave the Nazi doctor who experimented on her and her twin sister. Eva Mozes Kor and her family were deported from Romania to Auschwitz in May 1944. She and her twin sister Miriam were saved…
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Fast Forward Former Neo-Nazi Removes Swastika Tattoos After Befriending Black Parole Officer
A former neo-Nazi was inspired to turn his life around—even going through the painful process of covering up his swastika tattoo—after befriending his African-American parole officer. Michael Kent of Colorado, who spent years as a member of a violent skinhead gang, told ABC News that officer Tiffany Whittier also inspired him to remove the Nazi…
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Fast Forward Hurricane Aftermath Wreaks Havoc With High Holidays In Virgin Islands
The damage caused by Hurricanes Irma and Maria and the curfew imposed in its aftermath has affected Jewish life during the High Holidays in the U.S. Virgin Islands, a rabbi there told The Washington Post. Rabbi Michael Feshbach of the St. Thomas Synagogue — the second-oldest synagogue in the Western Hemisphere, and the oldest in…
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Fast Forward Fried Chicken Festival Apologizes For Using Holocaust Memorial As Break Area
New Orleans’s annual Fried Chicken Festival has apologized for using a Holocaust memorial as an employee break area and pledged not to use the space next year, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reported Tuesday. The memorial, in the Big Easy’s Woldenberg Park, was covered by tables and ice chests holding beer. Festival organizers said in a…
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Fast Forward Maggie Haberman, Nate Silver Spar Over Whose 2016 Coverage Was Worse
Two of the most prominent political observers in the country got into a Twitter tiff on Tuesday over whose coverage of the 2016 presidential election was more misleading and inaccurate. It started when Nate Silver—the former New York Times statistical wunderkind who left in 2013 to run his own ESPN-backed website, 538—noted a Haberman report…
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Fast Forward Ed Asner Had The Best Response To The NFL Protests
The world of sports and politics collided over the weekend as President Trump repeatedly criticized football players for kneeling during the national anthem as a protest against racism and police brutality. While many people (including NFL owners) announced their support for the players and their right to protest peacefully, perhaps the most surprising statement of…
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Fast Forward Jared Kushner Used Private Email Account For Official White House Business
Presidential senior adviser/son-in-law Jared Kushner has been using a private account to correspond with other White House officials about official business, Politico reported. The account was reportedly set up in December, during the presidential transition. Politico reported that Kushner had verified around two dozen emails from that private account about issues like media planning and…
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