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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Fast Forward WATCH: Archived Footage Shows Trump, Epstein Laughing About Women At Mar-a-Lago
Producers at NBC News uncovered a 1992 clip showing President Trump and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein talking about women at a party at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort. The footage was captured for a profile of Trump’s then-bachelor life on Faith Daniels’ NBC talk show. It features a party Trump threw with NFL cheerleaders at Mar-a-Lago…
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Fast Forward Jewish Reporter Responds To Conway’s ‘Bizarre’ Question About His Ethnicity
Reporter Andrew Feinberg said Tuesday night that his interaction with White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, in which she asked him about his ethnicity, was “bizarre.” “It’s not the first time she’s asked me an irrelevant or inappropriate question in response to one of my questions,” Feinberg told CNN. “Around the Fourth of July, when I…
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Fast Forward Israeli Election Poster Promoting Likud Proclaims ‘Make Israel Great Again’
Election posters promoting Israel’s conservative Likud Party were spotted in Tel Aviv with an unusual English-language slogan: “Make Israel Great Again.” The posters echoed President Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan. Likud party leader Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is one of Trump’s closest global allies. #MakeIsraelGreatAgain Likud election posters in Tel Aviv (photo courtesy of…
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Fast Forward Meet Ayanna Pressley, The Fourth Member Of AOC, Omar and Tlaib’s ‘Squad’
Freshman Democratic Rep. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts attracted more attention than ever this week after President Trump took thinly-veiled shots at her and other members of “The Squad,” the quartet of first-term progressive congresswoman of color who have taken the political world by storm. In tweets on Sunday and Monday that were widely criticized as…
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News American Jews Divided On Israel Are Uniting — In Anti-ICE ‘Never Again’ Protests
If you’re liberal, Jewish and Zionist, it has been difficult to find a home in the earth-shaking activist movements of the past decade. A leading Black Lives Matter group called Israel an “apartheid state” in its platform. Leaders of the Women’s March earned the ire of many Jews for their unapologetic anti-Zionism and ties to…
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Fast Forward Jeffrey Epstein’s Charity Donated $50K To New York Jewish Federation
Sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s charity donated $50,000 in 2017 to UJA-Federation of New York, the nation’s largest local Jewish federation. A U.S. Virgin Islands-based charity called Gratitude America, Ltd. donated more than $1.2 million to a variety of organizations in 2017, including $50,000 to the federation, according to tax records. The Daily Beast reported in…
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Fast Forward Tlaib’s Congressional West Bank Trip In Doubt After Organizer Pulls Out
Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s planned congressional delegation to Israel and the West Bank is in jeopardy after the group organizing the tour dropped out, the New York Daily News reported Thursday. A not-for-profit group called the Humpty Dumpty Institute, which describes itself on its website as being “dedicated to tackling difficult global and domestic issues,” had…
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Fast Forward Jewish Day School Teacher Arrested On Child Pornography Charges
A teacher at one of Australia’s most prominent Jewish day schools has been charged with four counts of child exploitation, the Australian Jewish News reported Wednesday. Dean Kaplan, who has worked at the Emanuel School as a fitness instructor since 2016, was charged with two counts possessing child pornographic material and one count each of…
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