Aiden Pink is the Deputy News Editor for the Forward. Contact him at pink@forward.com or on Twitter, @aidenpink.
Aiden Pink
By Aiden Pink
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News Jewish teens sign up as poll workers to save seniors from COVID and serve democracy
Lily Gray, a college senior from Minnesota, wants her generation to turn out at polling stations this November – not just as voters, but also as election day poll workers. “When younger people think of civic engagement, all they think about is voting, but really there’s a vast variety of opportunities that they can do,”…
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Fast Forward Orthodox man attacked by three strangers on Brooklyn street corner
An Orthodox Jewish man in Brooklyn was attacked by three strangers in what the New York Police Department is investigating as a possible hate crime, the Daily News reported Thursday. The Jewish man, 51, was crossing Kings Highway when three other men yelled “F—-ing Jew” at him from a passing SUV, officials said. The Jewish…
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Fast Forward Congress’s two Jewish Republicans voted against removing Confederate statues
The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to call for the removal of Confederate statues from the U.S. Capitol complex. The measure passed 305-113. Every Democratic member of Congress, including the 26 Jewish Democrats in the House, voted in favor, while the Republican caucus was split about evenly. The House’s two Jewish Republicans, Reps. Lee Zeldin…
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Fast Forward Nick Cannon and several other Black celebrities attended Farrakhan’s July 4 speech
Several prominent Black celebrities attended anti-Semitic Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan’s July 4 public address, the Anti-Defamation League revealed Wednesday, citing the Nation of Islam’s own newspaper. Among those in attendance included actor Nick Cannon and former NBA basketball player Stephen Jackson, both of whom had been criticized in the past week for making…
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News ViacomCBS ends decades-long relationship with Nick Cannon over anti-Semitic statements
ViacomCBS is ending its decades-long relationship with Nick Cannon after the actor and TV host propagated anti-Semitic conspiracy theories on his podcast. Related story: Nick Cannon demands apology, declares network “on wrong side of history” “While we support ongoing education and dialogue in the fight against bigotry, we are deeply troubled that Nick has failed…
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Fast Forward Trump nominates Gorka for national security education role
President Trump nominated former aide Sebastian Gorka to serve on the board that oversees the federal government’s national security education program. An April 2017 Forward investigation revealed that Gorka, then a White House counterterrorism advisor, had decades-long associations with Hungarian groups that had historic Nazi ties. Gorka continued to serve in the White House until…
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News Booker: Blacks and Jews must work together to fight prejudice
African-Americans and Jewish Americans must unite to challenge violence and prejudice as they did in past generations, Sen. Cory Booker said in a Zoom interview Monday with Forward editor-in-chief Jodi Rudoren. Booker is pushing to pass his police reform bill, which has been blocked in the Senate, but said that the most significant change in…
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Fast Forward Michael Cohen taken back into custody for violating terms of release
Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former personal attorney, was taken into custody for violating the terms of his furlough from prison, his attorney said Thursday. Cohen, who pleaded guilty in 2018 to campaign finance violations and lying to Congress, had been released to home confinement earlier this year as part of the federal Bureau of Prisons’…
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