
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.
Actor Seth Rogen said on Monday that the porn star Stormy Daniels had told him “around 10 years ago” about her alleged affair with Donald Trump. Rogen said in his interview on “Ellen” that Daniels had shared her story when she made cameo appearances in his films “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” and “Knocked Up.” “At the…
The latest battle in the “free speech wars” on college campuses took place at the University of Pennsylvania this month, where a professor known for her controversial views on affirmative action was removed from her position teaching mandatory first-year classes. Amy Wax, a tenured professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, had made disparaging…
The Hillel at Harvard University is sponsoring a Seder this Passover that is aligned with a protest movement critical of Israel, a move that required the students to position the event carefully in order to hold it under Hillel’s auspices. Scheduled for the evening of April 5, the seventh night of Passover, the festive meal…
The umbrella group of Conservative Judaism announced Wednesday that its leader will be stepping down from his position. Rabbi Steven Wernick, who has served as CEO of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism since 2009, will not seek a renewal of his contract when it expires in 2019, the movement announced on Wednesday. “We are…
El Al, the Israeli national airline, issued a petition to the country’s Supreme Court on Wednesday asking it to stop Air India’s new flight route between New Delhi and Tel Aviv. The Air India flight is the first Israel-bound route that Saudi Arabia has allowed to use its airspace. El Al says that the new…
Updated March 27 A prominent Republican fundraiser has sued the country of Qatar and a lobbyist for that country for allegedly hacking into his emails and distributing its contents to journalists. Elliott Broidy, a top donor to both the Trump election campaign and the Republican Jewish Coalition, alleged in his lawsuit that the Gulf kingdom…
One of the most powerful speeches at the March for Our Lives gun control rally in Washington, D.C. was given by 11-year-old Naomi Wadler, who said she was there to represent other African-American women whose experiences with gun violence are often not covered by the media. Wadler, who is African-American and Jewish, had organized a…
Joshua Kushner, the brother of presidential advisor/son-in-law Jared Kushner, attended the “March for Our Lives” gun control rally in Washington, D.C. on Saturday. Joshua Kushner, who has described himself as a “lifelong Democrat,” had already donated $50,000 to help support the march. He attended the march with his girlfriend, supermodel Karlie Kloss, and posted about…
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