Veronika Bondarenko
By Veronika Bondarenko
-
Fast Forward Observer Bars Open Letters From Its Writers About Paper — and Ties to Donald Trump
The New York Observer is pulling the plug on open letters from its writers that criticize the paper — and its controversial relationship to Donald Trump. Ryan Holiday, a journalist and editor-at-large at the Observer, said that the paper refused to publish his essay Dear Dad, Please Don’t Vote For Donald Trump and told staffers…
-
News Donald Trump Wins Surprising Jewish Fan Club — Among Russian Immigrants
At a senior center in South Brooklyn, the old Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet bloc can’t wait to vote for Donald Trump. “I like his honesty, that he’s against Muslims, that he’s against refugees,” said Valentina Albert, a former refugee from Moldova whose husband was Jewish. “I think that our lives, the lives of…
-
Fast Forward Pokémon Go Banned by Holocaust Museum as Fad Spreads
The Holocaust and Pokémon are not words that are often used in the same sentence. And yet, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C has been forced to delve into the world of computer gaming when it issued a call for visitors to stop playing Pokémon Go there, reported the Washington Post. “Playing the…
-
Fast Forward Jared Kushner Blasted for Defending Donald Trump — by Own Family
Some of Jared Kushner’s relatives are distancing themselves from his support of father-in-law Donald Trump in a flap over a Tweet many find anti-Semitic — and blasting the newspaper publisher for invoking their Holocaust survivor grandparents. The relatives called it “self-serving” and “disgusting” for Jared Kushner to use their family history as a way of…
-
News WATCH: Ultra-Orthodox Rip Up Prayer Book To Protest Western Wall Bat Mitzvah
A video by Israeli feminist organization Women of the Wall reveals an Orthodox man ripping a prayer book to shreds in protest of women reading at the Western Wall and an American girl’s bat mitzvah. Established in 1988, WOW gathers once a month at Rosh Hodesh to read from the Torah in protest of Orthodox…
-
Fast Forward Jared Kushner Defends Donald Trump After Observer Writer Denounces ‘Anti-Semitism’
Jared Kushner defended his father-in-law Donald Trump against claims of anti-Semitism after a Jewish journalist at his Observer newspaper denounced the Republican presidential candidate. Trump “does not at all subscribe to any racist or anti-Semitic thinking,” Kushner said in a statement Tuesday night, Politico reported “My father-in-law is an incredibly loving and tolerant person who…
-
News 4 Pro-Israel Park Slope Food Co-Op Members Push Back Against BDS Suspension
Four Park Slope Food Co-Op members who were suspended from the group for disrupting a presentation on boycotting Israeli products vow to keep up their fight — and are planning to sue the group. Co-op members Alan Ettlinger, Rhudi Andreolli, Milldred Rutner and Sharon Eagle were suspended for a year by a unanimous vote of…
-
Fast Forward Donald Trump Gave $5K to the Hebrew Home for the Aged — But Why?
As journalists continue to dig into Donald Trump’s charitable donations (or lack thereof), one particular donation stands out as not being like the others: a $5,000 contribution to the Hebrew Home for the Aged. An investigation by Washington Post reporter David A. Fahrenthold revealed that, between 2010 and Trump’s $1 million donation to a veteran’s…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
News Trump antisemitism executive order invokes anti-KKK law and targets ‘leftist, anti-American’ universities
- 2
Fast Forward UFC fighter says Hitler was a ‘good guy’ and the ‘Holocaust ain’t real’
- 3
Fast Forward Former Trump staffer fired for attending white nationalist conference tapped for top State Dept. position
- 4
Opinion Yarden Bibas is freed, but his family’s suffering continues. It should enrage us all
In Case You Missed It
-
Fast Forward South Carolina’s Holocaust council is divided after chair cuts rabbi’s ‘political’ remarks from Auschwitz memorial broadcast
-
News Trump’s pick for antisemitism task force previously blamed him for incidents targeting Jews
-
Culture How a socialist Valentine’s Day mixer turned into a messy debate over Zionism
-
Fast Forward Former Trump staffer fired for attending white nationalist conference tapped for top State Dept. position
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
