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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News Women’s March Leaders Slam Starbucks For Tapping ADL To Defuse Racism Furor
Left-wing leaders of the anti-Trump Women’s March have blasted Starbucks for tapping the Anti-Defamation League to help defuse the mushrooming controversy over a Philadelphia coffee shop manager’s decision to call the police on two young black men. Tamika Mallory and Linda Sarsour accused the civil rights group of bias against “black and brown people” and…
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News Divided Barnard College Votes On Israel Divestment — On Eve Of Jewish State’s Independence Day
On Wednesday night, Columbia/Barnard Hillel will host a ceremony marking the transition from Yom Hazikaron, Israel’s Memorial Day, to Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israel’s Independence Day. Israel Defense Forces veterans will speak about fallen comrades minutes before a big, festive party. Emotions at that moment always run high. This year, though, is sure to be even more…
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Fast Forward Comey: Rosenstein ‘Acted Dishonorably’ But Probably Won’t Fire Mueller
Former FBI director James Comey harshly criticized Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in a wide-ranging interview Sunday in which he also revealed his personal conversations with President Trump, about whom he believes that it is “possible” that the Russian government have material that could be used for blackmail. Rosenstein wrote a memo in May 2017…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Ben Stiller’s Michael Cohen Gets Grilled By De Niro’s Mueller On SNL
The first “appearance” on “Saturday Night Live” of Trump attorney Michael Cohen doubled as a “Meet the Parents” reunion. In the sketch, former SNL cast member Ben Stiller plays Cohen, “attorney at law — and also sometimes not at law.” Cohen’s offices were raided by the FBI this week, a fact the lawyer’s fictional counterpart…
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Fast Forward Gingrich Calls FBI ‘Gestapo’ Over Michael Cohen Raid
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said in an appearance on Fox News Channel that the F.B.I.’s raid of the offices of Trump lawyer Michael Cohen was akin to the Gestapo, the Nazi regime’s secret police. “We’re supposed to have the rule of law, it ain’t the rule of law when they kick in your door…
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Fast Forward Bannon’s Secret Plan To Save Trump: Fire Rosenstein
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, who is still in contact with allies and employees of President Trump, is proposing a plan to save the presidency from the probe into Russian election interference by firing Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, The Washington Post reported Wednesday. Rosenstein oversees special counsel Robert Mueller and signed off…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Dan Markel’s Parents Break Silence On Son’s Killing
The parents of Dan Markel, the Florida law professor who was allegedly murdered in a hit-for-hire, will be making their first public comments on NBC on Friday. “You don’t repair from that, you really don’t repair from that,” Markel’s mother said in a preview for NBC’s “Dateline” program. “The day was just the most unbearable…
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Fast Forward Four Arrested At L.A. Jewish Federation After Protesting Gaza Violence
Four activists affiliated with the leftist Jewish group IfNotNow were arrested Wednesday after blocking the doors of the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles and protesting the national Federation group’s silence on the deaths of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the protesters said in a statement. IfNotNow had called on the Jewish Federations of North…
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