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 Poll Shows Jon Ossoff With 7-Point Lead
Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff is maintaining a seven-point lead in what has become the most expensive House of Representatives race in American history. Ossoff, a former congressional aide and documentary filmmaker, has 51% of the vote in the red-leaning 6th District in the Atlanta suburbs, according to an Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll released Friday. His Republican…
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Fast Forward Did London’s ‘Bagel Belt’ Help Stop Jeremy Corbyn’s Surge?
The United Kingdom’s ruling Conservative Party may be able to maintain power — just barely — after disastrous results in the Thursday election cost the Tories their overall majority in the House of Commons. But things could have been much worse for Prime Minister Theresa May had it not been for Jewish voters in key…
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Fast Forward Bernie Dislikes A Central Tenet Of Christianity And Will Vote Accordingly
The normally staid Senate Budget Committee became quite tense on Wednesday when Senator Bernie Sanders lit into an executive branch nominee for writings that he perceived as privileging Christianity over other faiths. Russell Vought, whom President Trump nominated to be deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget, wrote in the evangelical blog The…
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Fast Forward Meet Daniel Richman, The Man Comey Trusted To Leak His Memos
Former FBI Director James Comey revealed in testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday that he had instructed a friend to share the contents of memos he wrote summarizing his meetings with President Trump with the media, because he “thought that might prompt the appointment of a special counsel.” Shortly thereafter, that friend, Daniel…
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Fast Forward Jewish Lawmaker Becomes Second Democrat To Join Trump Impeachment Push
Rep. Brad Sherman announced on Wednesday that he would join a nascent congressional effort to draft articles of impeachment against President Trump. Sherman, a 10-term Democrat who represents parts of Los Angeles and its suburbs, joined Rep. Al Green of Texas in a press conference to announce their plan to oust the president on the…
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Fast Forward ‘Anti-Semitic’ British Campaign Poster Shows Theresa May With Star Of David Earrings
A giant campaign banner hung in a popular outdoor venue in one of England’s largest cities on Tuesday shows Prime Minister Theresa May in Star of David-shaped earrings, which some Jewish observers called “anti-Semitic.” The banner, which was hung Tuesday at the Bear Pit roundabout in Bristol, lists positive statements about Labour Party leader Jeremy…
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Fast Forward Idaho Woman Finds Nazi Explosive In Parents’ Shed
An Idaho woman discovered a Nazi artillery shell while cleaning out her parents’ shed last week. Diana Landa said that her parents had rarely used the shed in their longtime home outside of Boise and had no idea how the explosive got there. The device had a Nazi insignia and was etched with the year…
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Fast Forward Congress Wants To Know If Kushner Hoped Russia Would Bail Out Manhattan Skyscraper
Among the topics that congressional committees plan to ask presidential advisor/son-in-law Jared Kushner is whether his meetings with Russian officials in December were to sell a loss-making skyscraper his business owns to a Russian firm, NBC News reported Monday. Kushner originally neglected to disclose those meetings on his security clearance application form, drawing investigators’ interest…
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