Dave Goldiner is the Forward’s director of digital media. Dave is a veteran journalist who has spent two decades working at newspapers in the United States and Africa. A native New Yorker, Goldiner wrote for the New York Daily News, where he covered some of the biggest stories of our time, including the attacks of September 11, along with thousands of stories of hope and heartbreak. He also studied and worked in Southern Africa and has written for publications in South Africa and Zimbabwe. He holds masters degrees in journalism and public administration from Columbia University. Dave can be reached at goldiner@forward.com, or follow him on Twitter @davegoldiner
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By Dave Goldiner
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Fast Forward Ivanka And Jared’s Landlord Is Chile Mining Mogul Who’s Suing The U.S.
Remember the opulent $5.5 million mansion that Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump chose for their Washington D.C. home? Turns out they didn’t buy the spread in the tony Kalorama neighborhood, just a stone’s throw away from the place where ex-president Barack Obama and his family are living. The couple is renting it from Andronico Luksic,…
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Fast Forward Is David Friedman Blowing Off Pledge To Meet With J Street?
As David Friedman prepares for a first Senate test of Donald Trump’s nominee to be ambassador to Israel on Thursday, J Street accused him of reneging on a pledge to meet with its leaders. “Senators and other pro-Israel Americans should know before the final vote on your confirmation whether you stated willingness to meet with…
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Fast Forward South African Students Sing In Hebrew To Fight Back Against BDS
Pro-Israel students at Johannesburg’s University of the Witwatersrand fought back against a BDS-inspired effort to shut down a rally featuring an Arab-Israeli speaker. The group of mostly Jewish students formed a protective ring around the speaker when anti-Israel students tried to storm their rally on Tuesday. “The BDS people came waving their flags, screaming and…
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Fast Forward Babs Says Trump Is Making Her Fat — With His Lies On Twitter
Barbra Streisand has a problem with Donald Trump — and it’s getting heavy. The songbird says the president’s unhinged tweets are making her eat too much when she wakes up and sees what he’s been ranting about on Twitter overnight. Donald Trump is making me gain weight. I start the day with liquids, but after…
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Fast Forward Vandalism Ruled Out In Fallen Headstones At Brooklyn Jewish Cemetery
Fallen tombstones at a Jewish cemetery in Brooklyn were felled years ago — and not toppled by anti-Semitic vandals, police and cemetery officials said. “It was old damage, years if not decades,” old, an NYPD spokesman told DNAinfo. The cemetery had structural issues with older tombstones in the past, the spokesman added. Dov Hikind, a…
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Fast Forward Chuck Schumer Says Obama Wiretap Tweets Show Trump Is ‘In Trouble’
Chuck Schumer says President Trump’s flailing out at Barack Obama is a sign that he’s feeling squeezed by the federal investigation into his associates’ ties to Russia. The Senate Minority Leader said if Trump’s charge about Obama supposedly tapping his phones is proven false, it is proof he “doesn’t know how to conduct himself.” “It’s…
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Fast Forward Bob Dylan’s Harlem Townhouse Hits Market For Cool $3.7M
Wanna live in the Bard’s brownstone? Better start saving now. The opulent four story Harlem townhouse where Bob Dylan lived for 14 years has just hit the market for a cool $3.7 million. “Dripping with details,” the brownstone sits on Striver’s Row, a stretch of West 139th Street that attracted affluent African Americans during the…
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Fast Forward Al Franken ‘Very Troubled’ That Jeff Sessions Lied To Him About Meeting With Russian
Sen. Al Franken said he is “very troubled” that Attorney General Jeff Sessions lied about his contacts with the Russian ambassador during his confirmation hearing last month. The Jewish Minnesota Democrat tweeted about Sessions after the Washington Post revealed the two meetings, which Sessions specifically denied in an answer to Franken during his hearing. Very…
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