Aiden Pink is the Deputy News Editor for the Forward. Contact him at pink@forward.com or on Twitter, @aidenpink.
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By Aiden Pink
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Fast Forward Elderly Jewish Man Assaulted With Brick In Brooklyn City Park
A Jewish man in his 60s was attacked with a brick in a city park in Brooklyn on Tuesday, Yeshiva World News reported. The man was reportedly doing an exercise walk in Rochester Park in the heavily Jewish neighborhood of Crown Heights when he was attacked by a man holding a giant brick. He was…
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Fast Forward Laura Loomer Sues Tlaib For $2 Million For Allegedly Grabbing Her Phone
Conservative provocateur Laura Loomer filed a lawsuit against Rep. Rashida Tlaib on Friday, seeking $2 million in damages related to a incident in which Tlaib allegedly grabbed Loomer’s cell phone when the activist tried to confront the politician at a campaign event. Loomer crashed a campaign event in Minneapolis in October for Tlaib and Rep….
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Fast Forward Doctor Who Lost Job Over Tweets About Giving Jews Wrong Meds Seeks Hearing
A doctor whose job offer was withdrawn after the hospital discovered her history of anti-Semitic tweets is seeking a hearing with the State Medical Board of Ohio, the Cleveland Jewish News reported Monday. An attorney for Dr. Lana Kollab confirmed that she had requested a board hearing but declined to reveal what course of action…
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Fast Forward Bret Stephens, Apoplectic At Being Called A Bedbug, Quits Twitter
New York Times columnist Bret Stephens deactivated his Twitter account on Tuesday, one day after his over-the-top reaction to a professor’s joke about him on social media. After reports emerged on Monday that there was a bedbug infestation in the Times’s office, George Washington University professor David Karpf tweeted, “The bedbugs are a metaphor. The…
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Fast Forward Trump’s Washington Hotel Adds Kosher Food To Attract Orthodox Customers
The Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. has started a kosher menu in order to attract more Orthodox Jewish customers, The Jerusalem Post reported Saturday. The meals will come pre-sealed from a kosher catering company in Maryland, the Post reported. Washington has long been known for its lack of kosher restaurant options — there’s only…
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Fast Forward New York Times Editor Apologizes For Anti-Semitic, Racist Tweets
An editor at The New York Times has apologized for having written several anti-Semitic and racist tweets. Tom Wright-Piersanti is a senior staff editor at the Times, according to his LinkedIn profile. In the years 2008-2010, Wright-Piersanti wrote several offensive tweets, which were first uncovered by the right-wing website Breitbart. On New Years’ Day 2010,…
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News Why Don’t More Jews Like Bernie Sanders?
The first sign of trouble might have been in May, when a poll showed him doing far worse among his fellow Jews than with Democratic voters in general. Or it could have been in July, when the Forward found that Jews formed a smaller part of his major donor base than nearly every other candidate….
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Fast Forward Trump Doubles Down: Jewish Democrats Are ‘Very Disloyal To Israel’
President Trump on Wednesday stated that Jews who vote for the Democratic Party were “very disloyal to Israel,” doubling down on language that led several major Jewish organizations to condemn him the previous day. “If you vote for a Democrat, you’re being disloyal to Jewish people and you’re being very disloyal to Israel,” Trump said…
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