Cnaan Liphshiz
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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Fast Forward Israeli Diplomat Says British Labour Party Still Has Anti-Semitism Problem
— Repeated anti-Semitic incidents involving members of the United Kingdom’s Labour party show it must work harder to fix the problem, Israel’s envoy to the fight against anti-Semitism said. Gideon Behar, the director of the Israeli foreign ministry’s Department for Combating Antisemitism, spoke with JTA amid reports of a fresh string of hate speech by…
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Fast Forward Her Dying Wish To Be Buried in Dutch Jewish Cemetery Ends Century of Disuse
AMSTERDAM — To honor a woman’s dying wish, the Dutch Jewish community arranged for her body to be buried in a cemetery that had not been used in nearly a century. The funeral of Juliana Slaat-Luycx, who was born in 1941, was the first burial since 1920 at the Jewish cemetery of Den Ham 80…
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Fast Forward Morocco King Thanks Jewish Musician for ‘Lay Off My King’ Praise Song
— King Mohammed VI of Morocco thanked a Jewish composer from Casablanca who had written a song in the monarch’s honor. Albert Cohen, a novelist, composer and singer, earlier this week shared on Facebook a copy of the letter he received from the king for a poem entitled “Lay off my King” that Cohen had…
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Israel News Benjamin Netanyahu’s Uncharacteristic ‘Vow of Silence’ on White House Race
— Benjamin Netanyahu is adhering to a strict policy of silence on the US elections to avoid a repeat of his 2012 troubles over perceived meddling, the New York Times reported. The Israeli prime minister offered no comment on the subject during a recent 3-hour meeting with US political figures, The Time reported Thursday in an…
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Fast Forward Romania’s Jewish Theater Robbed of Equipment in New Blow
– In the wake of the theft of key pieces of equipment, Romania’s main Jewish theater may not be able to open its 2017 season, the theater’s director said. The theft of $12,000 worth of equipment occurred last week at a storage unit in Bucharest used by the Hebrew State Theater, Director Maia Morgenstern told…
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Fast Forward Polish Soccer Fans Burn Jews in Effigy as Rival Teams Battle
– Several dozen soccer fans in Poland hung a banner containing anti-Semitic language at a train station in Lodz at a demonstration that featured the burning of Jews in effigy. Approximately 50 men were photographed on a bridge at the Lodz Kaliska station on Aug. 26 with a banner reading “19.08, today the Jews got a…
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Fast Forward Apple Scrambles To Fix Israeli Firm’s iPhone Hack
— The discovery of an Israeli firm’s secret method of hacking in iPhones and iPads prompted Apple Inc to issue a patch to fix a flaw in the security of its products. The iPhone hack of the NSO Group, an Israeli company that makes software for governments which can secretly target mobile phones and gather…
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Fast Forward Elie Wiesel Honored by Russian Jews With Exhibit
— A Jewish organization working in the former Soviet Union inaugurated an exhibition in Moscow on the life of Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel. Also in the Russian capital, some 500 Chabad rabbis from across Europe gathered this week for a conference that may be the largest rabbinical gathering ever held there, according to the Chabad movement….
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