Aiden Pink is the Deputy News Editor for the Forward. Contact him at pink@forward.com or on Twitter, @aidenpink.
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Fast Forward ‘Graffiti Grandma’ Fined For Painting Hearts Over Swastikas In Germany
A woman in Germany was fined earlier this month for painting over neo-Nazi graffiti, after a court concluded that her actions constituted property damage, the Telegraph reported. Irmela Mensah-Schramm, a 74-year-old activist known as the “Graffiti Grandma,” has for decades painted over white nationalist slogans and symbols throughout Germany. But after she painted hearts over…
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Fast Forward Florida Principal Who Denied Holocaust Still On Payroll With Six-Figure Salary
A Florida high school principal who was removed from his school in July after refusing to take a position on whether the Holocaust happened is still being paid his six-figure salary by his heavily Jewish school district despite not having any work responsibilities, the Palm Beach Post reported Wednesday. After a parent emailed him in…
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Fast Forward White Nationalists Praise German Synagogue Gunman As A ‘Saint’
White nationalists have praised the alleged gunman behind the attempted synagogue shooting in Germany as a “saint,” Vice reported. The praise for the shooter – who killed two people after being thwarted from entering a synagogue in the eastern city of Halle on Yom Kippur – was prevalent on Telegram, an encrypted messaging service once…
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Fast Forward Liberal Rabbis Join Trump’s High Holiday Call After 2-Year Absence
Rabbis from the Reform and Conservative Jewish movements will participate in the White House’s annual High Holidays conference call on Friday, a change in procedure after two years without participating. Rabbi Debra Newman Kamin, the president of the Rabbinical Assembly, the union of Conservative rabbis, told the Forward on Thursday that their board had taken…
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Fast Forward Two Brandeis Students Stabbed, 16-Year-Old ‘Covered In Blood’ Arrested
A 16-year-old boy was arrested in connection to the stabbing of two Brandeis University graduate students early Monday morning, the Boston Herald reported. Police in Waltham, Massachusetts responded at around 1:37 a.m. to a report of a stabbing inside a home a block away from campus. They discovered the two female students, who had been…
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Fast Forward Fake News Trolls Are Trying To Tie Greta Thunberg To George Soros
Thousands of people on social media were exposed to a manipulated image that purported to show teen climate change activist Greta Thunberg posing with liberal financier and philanthropist George Soros, AFP reported Wednesday. “This is that climate change girl Greta with George Soros,” One person who spread the faked image wrote. “As soon as I…
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Fast Forward Homeless Man Pleads Guilty To Starting Synagogue Fire, Says It Was An Accident
A man experiencing homelessness pleaded guilty on Tuesday to starting a fire that burned down a synagogue in Minnesota earlier this month, the Duluth News Tribune reported. Matthew Amiot said he was seeking shelter from the cold in a sukkah, a temporary dwelling built behind the Adas Israel Congregation in Duluth. He had tried to…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Will Get First Shot At Forming Government After Unity Talks Fail
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin announced Wednesday that he was assigning Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the responsibility of going first in his attempt to form a governing coalition. Opposition leader Benny Gantz’s Blue and White alliance actually won one more seat in the Knesset than Netanyahu’s Likud party, but more elected Knesset members from all the…
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