
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.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claimed on Monday that the United States government was operating “concentration camps” on the U.S.-Mexico border, which critics said was insensitive to Holocaust survivors while defenders claimed the comparison was valid. During a livestreamed Instagram video, the freshman representative from New York decried the fact that some migrant children were being held…
Former “Daily Show” host Jon Stewart fired back at Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in a surprise appearance on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” on Monday, escalating their public feud over a bill to permanently endow the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund. The tiff began when Stewart, a longtime supporter of 9/11 first responders, testified…
The self-help guru Keith Raniere used his influence over his followers to prey on women, including underage girls, a federal prosecutor said in the closing arguments of Raniere’s six-week trial. “Even though his community members considered him a humanitarian, leader, mentor and guru, you saw him for what he was: a con man, a predator…
A survivor of last year’s deadly shooting at a Parkland, Florida high school who recently graduated said on Monday that Harvard College had rescinded his acceptance over racist comments he had made as a 16-year-old. Kyle Kashuv, who is Jewish, has become an advocate for gun rights in the year since the attack on Marjorie…
Birthright Israel has sent 650,000 young Jews to Israel over the past two decades, and few have complained about their free trip to the Jewish state. But last summer, something strange started happening. Members of IfNotNow, the Jewish organization that raises awareness about Palestinian suffering and American complicity in it, would go on the trips…
A new town in the Golan Heights will be called “Ramat Trump” — literally, “Trump Heights” — in honor of the American president’s recognition of Israeli control over the area, the Times of Israel reported Thursday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced in April that a town would be named after Trump to honor his…
A Jewish group that has raised the profile of the movement protesting the Israeli occupation of land Palestinians claim for their own is tied to the decision by a gay pride march to not allow the star of David flag at its event on Friday. Members of the D.C. chapter of IfNotNow — which has…
This is a developing story. The American Hebrew Academy, a prestigious Jewish boarding school in North Carolina, announced its closure abruptly on Tuesday, stunning faculty and students, the Forward has learned. The school began operating in 2001. An email to faculty and staff from Glenn A. Drew, the school’s CEO, and Leeor Sabbah, chair of…
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