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 Michael Cohen Is ‘One Of The Most Popular Guys In Prison’
Michael Cohen’s three-year stint in federal prison seems to be off to a good start: The Daily Beast reported that Cohen’s fellow prisoners are flocking to him. “People have been asking him for legal advice. He is one of the most popular guys in the prison. Many people have been approaching him for help,” a…
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Fast Forward Rep. Steve King Was Kicked Off House Committees Over White Nationalism. Now Some In The GOP Want Him Back.
Some Republicans in the House of Representatives are trying to get Rep. Steve King back on congressional committees, months after he was kicked off them for making offensive comments about white nationalism, Politico reported Monday. Politico named three leaders of the effort, but noted others were involved as well. “It was unfair the way it…
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Fast Forward Man With ‘Kill List’ Of Famous Jews Pleads Guilty To Planning Synagogue Attack
An Orange County, California man who created “kill lists” of prominent Jews was sentenced to more than two years in jail after pleading guilty to threatening two churches and a synagogue. Nicholas Rose, 28, was arrested last year after his parents told police their son wanted to “get a gun and kill some Jews,” the…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Kushner Won’t Say If Trump’s Birtherism Was Racist
White House senior advisor Jared Kushner repeatedly refused to say in an interview with Axios aired on HBO Sunday whether his father-in-law President Trump’s conspiracy theories about Barack Obama’s heritage were racist. After Kushner told interviewer Jonathan Swan that he had never seen Trump say or do anything racist, Swan asked, “Was birtherism racist?” “Look,…
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Fast Forward Uber Driver Kicked Out Jewish Women Because They Were Coming From Israeli Event
Two women in California said they were kicked out of their Uber after their driver discovered they were coming from a pro-Israel festival, the Jewish Journal reported. The women, who were identified in the article by pseudonyms, said they had ordered the Uber to pick them up on May 19 from the Celebrate Israel Festival,…
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Fast Forward Sanders Is First Presidential Candidate To Address CA Dem Arab-American Caucus
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Sunday became the first presidential candidate to ever address the California Democratic Party’s Arab American Caucus. Sanders, an independent senator from Vermont, was one of several presidential candidates to travel to the California state party’s convention in Oakland over the weekend and address the assembly and its various caucuses. While there,…
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Fast Forward That Hateful Video Mocking A Hasidic Child Won’t Disappear Because The Internet Is Forever
Updated 1:05 p.m. A video of a man taunting a Hasidic boy for his appearance went viral last year, garnering more than two million views on Twitter and Facebook. But the man who created the video, Quai James, quickly and repeatedly apologized, even volunteering at a Jewish soup kitchen. That was supposed to be the…
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Fast Forward Fox News Host Laura Ingraham Defends White Supremacist Paul Nehlen
Updated 2:00 p.m. Fox News Channel host Laura Ingraham listed white supremacist Paul Nehlen as a “prominent voice” in a segment on her show on Thursday. During a segment claiming that liberals are trying to “silence conservative voices” on Facebook ahead of the 2020 election, a graphic listed Nehlen, as well as other far-right figures…
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