Cnaan Liphshiz
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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Fast Forward Gad Elmaleh, popular comedian who has been source of pride for French Jews, converts to Catholicism
'This is no doubt a joke,' one Jewish fan wrote on Twitter
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Fast Forward In rare rebuke, Russian chief rabbi accuses senior defense official of antisemitism
Berel Lazar’s top spokesperson said he feared a remark linked to the war in Ukraine marks “a new era” for the country’s Jews
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Fast Forward Where does Rishi Sunak, new UK prime minister, stand on Israel and Jewish issues?
He’s the latest in a new generation of Conservative leaders to challenge the kingdom’s longstanding orthodoxies on keeping Israel at a distance
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Fast Forward In a first, EU invites Jews and Muslims to stand up for kosher and halal slaughter amid local bans
The European Union's point person for fighting antisemitism, who has been increasingly outspoken against bans on ritual slaughter, initiated the event
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News Budapest’s Chabad-run Milton Friedman University eyes a major expansion — with more Jewish students a goal
The school’s president wants to use a government grant to make the university a 'major player in Hungarian academia.'
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Fast Forward As Putin’s war sputters, antisemitism seeps into the Russian media landscape
A popular talk show host named Jews who he found insufficiently patriotic, and a think tank accused a prominent Jewish philosopher of siding with Ukraine “for good money.”
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Fast Forward Kandinsky painting returned to Jewish family as Netherlands shifts approach to looted art
The decision reverses a 2018 ruling against the descendants of Johanna Margarethe Stern-Lippmann, who died in Auschwitz
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News In London, a special needs school is rare meeting point for haredi Orthodox and secular Jews
Gesher meets the needs of Jewish families of all denominations and splits the religious difference by committing to a Modern Orthodox approach
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