
Aiden Pink is the Deputy News Editor for the Forward. Contact him at [email protected] or on Twitter, @aidenpink.
Aiden Pink is the Deputy News Editor for the Forward. Contact him at [email protected] or on Twitter, @aidenpink.
A unit of the United States Army is facing criticism for posting on its Facebook page a photo of a Nazi officer who committed war crimes against American soldiers, The Washington Post reported. The XVIII Airborne Corps Facebook page stated that it was beginning a series commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Battle of the…
A trustee of the Jersey City Board of Education is being criticized for writing a Facebook message that seemed to blame the Jewish community for the attack on a kosher grocery store last week, the website Insider NJ reported. “Mr. Anderson and Ms. Graham went directly to the Kosher supermarket,” board of education trustee Joan…
The man and woman accused of killing three people in a Jersey City, N.J. kosher grocery store were both found to have keys that could unlock handcuffs — the man’s in his underwear, local news station NBC4 reported Monday, citing law enforcement sources. Police searching through the clothes of David Anderson and Francine Graham, the…
A man who lives across the street from a Des Moines, Iowa elementary school is defending his decision to display artwork with Confederate and Nazi imagery, the Associated Press reported Monday. William Stark had been harshly criticized by local parents and the school district for showcasing the painted wooden pallets stacked on his property. In…
Many British Jews group expressed their relief that the Labour Party suffered their worst electoral defeat in decades on Thursday. Party leader Jeremy Corbyn had been criticized for years amid claims that he allowed anti-Semitism to fester within the party, and a poll found that 87% of British Jews believed that he was personally anti-Semitic….
Amid the mourning and sorrow in the aftermath of the attack on a kosher grocery store in Jersey City, some Jews felt something else: The sense that attacks on Orthodox Jews don’t garner as much sympathy from their non-Orthodox brethren. Few seem to care about the attacks on Jews in Brooklyn. Why? The Jews being…
A Jewish teenager working on a school project about her ancestors discovered that she is related to White House senior advisor Stephen Miller – and wrote an op-ed in the Orlando Sentinel condemning him. Georgia Bernbaum was doing a school project about Fannie Nisselbaum, her great-great-great-aunt who had immigrated to the United States from a…
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shared a campaign video made by Britain’s Labour Party on Thursday, the day of the British election. “The hoarding of wealth by the few is coming at the cost of peoples’ lives,” she wrote. “The only way we change is with a massive surge of new voters at the polls. UK, Vote!”…
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