Aiden Pink is the Deputy News Editor for the Forward. Contact him at [email protected] or on Twitter, @aidenpink.
Aiden Pink
By Aiden Pink
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Fast Forward Tel Aviv Suburb Races To Become First Israeli City To Name Town Square For Trump
Petach Tikvah will become the first city in Israel to name a town square after President Trump when it does so in July, mayor Rami Greenberg said Monday. The dedication, which is expected to take place on the 4th of July after a few months of renovations to the site, is “in gratitude to and…
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Fast Forward Nearly Half Of Jewish Democrats Backing Biden In Presidential Primary: Poll
Nearly half of Jewish Democrats prefer former vice president Joe Biden to win the Democratic presidential nomination next year, a Morning Consult poll revealed Monday. Biden is polling at 40% overall among registered Democratic voters, more than double the second-place candidate, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is sitting at 19%. But despite Sanders’s Jewish heritage,…
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Fast Forward Williams College Council Votes Against Recognizing Pro-Israel Student Club
The student government of Williams College in Massachusetts voted last month not to recognize a pro-Israel club as an official student organization – the first time in more than ten years that a club complied with all relevant bylaws but failed to gain recognition status, The Williams Record reported. The Williams College Council voted 13-8…
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Fast Forward Dallas JCC Turned Blind Eye To Employee Raping Teen, Lawsuit Claims
A woman is suing a Jewish community center in Dallas for failing to protect her from an employee who allegedly raped her when she was 14. The lawsuit claims that in 2014, an employee of the Aaron Family JCC’s fitness center named Randy Lee Adrian groomed and sexually assaulted her at the gym and offsite…
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Fast Forward No Joke: White Nationalists Are Now Using Clowns To Spread Hatred
Last month, my colleague Ari Feldman received a strange email from an anonymous source. That normally wouldn’t be very notable – the Forward gets unsolicited emails all the time, ranging from news tips to complaints to apocalyptic prophecies – except for the unexpected closing line: “Honk honk, motherfucker!” Another gracious email from a lovely @jdforward…
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Fast Forward These States Had The Most Anti-Semitic Incidents In 2018
The Anti-Defamation League’s annual audit of anti-Semitic incidents, which was released Thursday, revealed some grim statistics: While the reports of anti-Semitism the ADL received – 1,879 in total – were down slightly from last year, they still constituted the third-highest tally since its records began in 1979. More than 70% of those incidents were tied…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Feinstein, Barr Clash Over Mueller Report, Trump’s Actions
Attorney General William Barr clashed Wednesday with Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, over his summary of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, and whether the Barr was right to say that the report’s details of Trump’s actions did not rise to the level of obstruction of justice. In one exchange…
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Fast Forward Poway Synagogue Shooting Suspect’s Family Won’t Pay For His Lawyer
The family of the man accused of conducting a mass shooting at a California synagogue aren’t planning on paying for a lawyer for their son, the Associated Press reported Tuesday. Nineteen-year-old John Earnest will be arraigned on Tuesday and charged with felonies in connection to the synagogue shooting, as well as the arson of a…
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