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 Disabled New Yorker Has Sued 195 Businesses Since 2010
A double-amputee from Brooklyn has sued nearly 200 businesses in the last seven years for failing to accommodate customers in wheelchairs—which some see as abusing the legal system while others classify as fighting for fellow citizens with disabilities. Zoltan Hirsch, age 37, has filed 195 claims since 2010, the New York Post reported Saturday. The…
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Fast Forward White Supremacist Church Shooter Dylann Roof Wants To Fire Jewish Lawyer
The white supremacist who was convicted of killing nine people at a South Carolina church has requested that he be allowed to fire his lawyers because one is Jewish and another is Indian-American. “Because of my political views, which are arguably religious, it will be impossible for me to trust two attorneys that are my…
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Fast Forward Sanders Scoffs At Clinton Criticism: ‘I Worked As Hard As I Could’ To Elect Her
Sen. Bernie Sanders rebuffed former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s claim that he did not do enough to help his former Democratic party nomination rival win the 2016 presidential election. “I worked as hard as I could to see that Hillary Clinton would be elected president,” Sanders told “Meet the Press” on Sunday. In…
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Fast Forward Trump Retweeted Video From Anti-Semitic Twitter User
President Trump retweeted a video on Sunday posted by a user with a history of making anti-Semitic statements. The video, posted by user @fuctupmind on Wednesday, shows Trump teeing off on a golf course before a ball hits Hillary Clinton, causing her to fall down. (It uses footage from a 2011 incident when Clinton fell…
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Fast Forward Facebook Allowed Ads To Target Users Who Liked ‘How To Burn Jews’
Facebook allowed users to buy ad space targeting people who had expressed interest in anti-Semitic topics like “Jew hater” and “How to burn jews,” the news organization ProPublica reported Thursday. ProPublica used Facebook to buy $30 worth of ads targeting those groups. Those ads were approved within 15 minutes, the report claimed. Facebook allows advertisers…
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Fast Forward Joe Lieberman Hates Bernie Sanders’s Medicare-For-All Plan
Joe Lieberman and Bernie Sanders may have a lot in common—proud Jews born less than a year apart, failed presidential candidates representing New England, political independents willing to buck the Democratic party line (though Lieberman skewed right and Sanders left). But despite having overlapped in the Senate together for six years, Lieberman did not have…
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Israel News $2 Billion Israeli-American Research Campus Opens In New York City
A $2 billion high-tech university research campus built by two prestigious universities, one in the United States and one in Israel, of has opened on New York City’s Roosevelt Island. Cornell Tech, a joint venture between Cornell University and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, held its grand opening on Wednesday with remarks by New York…
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Fast Forward Florida Holocaust Survivors Went Days Without Food Or Water After Hurricane
Volunteers with a Jewish funeral society discovered dozens of Holocaust survivors in one Florida condo building who had lasted through Hurricane Irma and its aftermath for days without food, water or power, Yeshiva World News reported. The Chesed Shel Emes society had received a request to check on an elderly Jewish woman at the Olympic…
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