
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.
The man who allegedly killed nine people in Dayton, Ohio on Sunday showed a woman footage of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting on their first date, the woman told the Associated Press. Adelia Johnson said she met suspect Connor Betts in a college psychology class this year and that they dated for a few months until…
Presidential candidate Rep. Tulsi Gabbard is having a moment — she received praise from commentators for her attacks on Sen. Kamala Harris’ prosecutorial record during last week’s Democratic presidential debate, and the latest New Hampshire poll has seen her rise to sixth place. But some of America’s most prominent white nationalists have taken credit for…
A New York state court has ordered Fordham University to recognize a chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, ending a two-year legal saga. The dean’s office at Fordham, a Jesuit Catholic school with campuses in the Bronx, Manhattan and Westchester County, had banned SJP in 2017 after the student government voted to approve it….
The Anglican Church of Canada voted last month to remove a call to convert the Jews from one of its prayer books, the Canadian Jewish News reported. The Church’s General Synod voted 99% in favor of replacing the entry in the Book of Common Prayer with a new invocation called “For Reconciliation with the Jews.”…
The government needs to invest more in combating the threat of violent domestic extremism, the acting Secretary of Homeland Security told CBS News on Tuesday. Acting Secretary Kevin McAleenan was asked on CBS This Morning about a Los Angeles Times report that found that a new Homeland Security office tasked with countering “racially motivated violence”…
In 2008, Jeffrey Epstein, a financier and philanthropist, pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution from a minor and registered as a sex offender. In 2017, one of the biggest Jewish charities in America accepted a $50,000 donation from him. In 2019, Epstein was accused of new sex trafficking charges. Now what? That charity, UJA-Federation of New…
Eight-year-old First Granddaughter Arabella Kushner recently had her first experience at Jewish summer camp, according to photos posted to social media and first reported Tuesday by the Jewish news website Matzav. Kushner, the oldest child of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, was dropped off at the bus by her mother to attend a three-day session…
Walking through the “spin room” after her surprisingly successful debate performance on Wednesday night, Democratic presidential and spiritual guru Marianne Williamson stopped to conduct an interview with a 10-year-old boy. Jeffrey Kraft of KidScoop Media asked Williamson if she had a pet. “I had a cat and the cat died,” Williamson replied mournfully. Kraft was…
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