
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.
South Bend, Indiana mayor and Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg slammed casino mogul and Republican megadonor Sheldon Adelson while speaking in Las Vegas on Saturday, using language that led a Republican Jewish leader to accuse him of anti-Semitism. In a segment of his speech about strengthening democratic norms and voting rights, Buttigieg mentioned, “I know…
Anti-Semitic trolling and disinformation is rising online – and so is harassment of Jews because of their views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, often at the hands of other Jews who disagree, a new study claims. The Institute for the Future, a California-based think tank, conducted a series of studies of online propaganda and harassment that…
A police officer in Bergen County, New Jersey has been disciplined after being photographed dressing as an Orthodox Jew at a party at the local firehouse – but local officials either don’t know or refused to say what the punishment was, the North Jersey Record reported Monday. While attending a party on December 28, Pete…
Former CIA spy Valerie Plame, who announced last week that she was running for Congress in New Mexico, attempted to do damage control on MSNBC on Sunday when asked why she had once shared anti-Semitic articles from a Holocaust-denying website on her Twitter account. “I’m human and we all make mistakes. It was just a…
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will convene a meeting of the state cabinet in Israel later this month, the News Service of Florida reported last week. DeSantis, a Republican, successfully ran for office last year promising to be the “most pro-Israel governor” in America. He said last week that while in the Jewish state between May…
An imam who has been praised for his social justice work but criticized for his statements about Israel delivered the daily prayer at the House of Representatives on Thursday. Omar Suleiman, the founder and president of the Dallas-based Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research, was introduced by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi after having been sponsored by…
Four members of a now-defunct white supremacist group have pleaded guilty to rioting charges in connection to the violence amid the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, the Department of Justice announced last week. Two members of the “Rise Above Movement,” group leader Ben Daley and former aerospace engineer Michael Miselis, pleaded guilty…
The Anti-Defamation League is offering a $5,000 reward for information in connection to an assault of an Orthodox Jewish man in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. In the incident caught on video Tuesday evening, a man sucker punched a visibly Jewish man near the headquarters of the Satmar Hasidic group. Exclusive Video of a Anti-semitic attack yesterday 7:30pm…
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