Alyssa Fisher
By Alyssa Fisher
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Fast Forward Who Is WeWork Co-Founder Adam Neumann?
Adam Neumann has been at the helm of WeWork since he co-founded it nearly 10 years ago. On Wednesday, it went public and filed its IPO paperwork, Business Insider reported. Here’s what you need to know about WeWork’s Israeli co-founder Neumann, who is now worth an estimated $4.1 billion. He lived for some time on…
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Fast Forward ‘Jude’ Etched On Front Door Of Los Angeles Synagogue
The word “Jude” was carved under a Star of David on the front door of a Los Angeles synagogue on Saturday, the Jewish Journal reported. A bystander saw an unidentified person create the symbols into the Temple Mishkon Tephilo in Venice and called the police, which notified Rabbi Gabriel Botnick. It was the synagogue’s first…
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Fast Forward Jewish Men Attacked During Attempted Robberies In Brooklyn
Three Jewish men were punched in the face in Brooklyn on Monday in what may have been attempted robberies, New York Post reported. There were three separate but similar attacks. The first was in the Williamsburg neighborhood around 5 a.m.; three men pushed a 71-year-old man to the ground to dig through his pockets. The…
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Fast Forward Curt Schilling, Baseball Star And Collector Of Nazi Relics, May Run For Congress
Former Major League Baseball pitcher Curt Schilling is considering running for Congress, Politico reported. In two recent interviews, Schilling said he was adamant about unseating ones of the five Democrats representing his home state of Arizona in the House of Representatives. “The state is not the state I grew up in,” he wrote in an…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Denier Banned From France For 40 Years
After getting stopped on her way to France, a convicted Holocaust denier learned she is banned from entering the country for 40 years, The Jewish Chronicle reported. Alison Chabloz took to Gab, a social media platform popular among the so-called “alt-right,” to let her online followers know she had been “banned from entering France until…
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Fast Forward Neo-Nazi Leader Must Pay $700K To Black Student Targeted In ‘Troll Storm’
A former American University student government president was awarded more than $700,000 on Friday in a case against the founder of the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer, The Washington Post reported. Taylor Dumpson, the university’s first black female student government president, sued Andrew Anglin of the Daily Stormer in 2017, accusing him of commanding his…
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Fast Forward As Candidates Descend On Iowa, So Do ‘Campaign Kippahs’
Democratic presidential candidates are spending the weekend giving speeches and eating fried food at the Iowa State Fair — where fairgoers can also check out personalized kippot promoting the political contenders. The “Campaign Kippahs” booth is near the Des Moines Register Political Soapbox stand, where candidates have been giving speeches. Rachel Stassen-Berger, an editor at…
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Fast Forward Stephen Ross Was Hesitant To Host Trump Fundraiser After Backlash – But It’s Happening Anyway
New York real estate developer Stephen Ross had second thoughts about his plans to host a fundraiser Friday for President Trump at his Southampton mansion, Axios reported. Ross, who is Jewish, chairs a company that owns fitness brands Equinox and SoulCycle. When news of the fundraiser came out, customers threatened to cancel their memberships, despite…
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