Cnaan Liphshiz
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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Fast Forward British Jewish Leaders Condemn French Burkini Police
— The Board of Deputies of British Jews condemned what it called police harassment in France of Muslim women who wore the full-body bathing suit known as burkini in defiance of a municipal ban. The board, which is the main Jewish group in Britain, was referencing the enforcement of bans adopted earlier this month in…
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Fast Forward Russian TV Doubles Down on Jewish Titanic Sinking Conspiracy Theory
— A privately-owned Russian television channel reran a documentary from 2012 which claimed the Titanic was sunk partly due to a conspiracy by Jews. REN-TV aired the anti-Semitic documentary last month, according to the Coordination Forum for Countering anti-Semitism. The documentary suggested a “group of 300” Jews, freemasons and “illluminati” had sunk the ship in…
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Fast Forward How Paris Public Schools Became No Go Areas for Jewish Students
Twenty-five years after he graduated from a public high school in the French capital, Stephane Tayar recalls favorably his time in one of the world’s most thorough education systems. As for many other French Jews his age, the state-subsidized upbringing has worked out well for Tayar, a 43-year-old communications and computers specialist. Eloquent but down…
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Fast Forward French Rabbi Defends Controversial Ban of Burkini Swimsuit
— A senior Paris rabbi defended a string of controversial municipal bans in France on wearing publically the full-body swimsuit known as burkini. Moshe Sebbag, the rabbi of the Grand Synagogue of Paris, told JTA Tuesday he supported in principle the regulations adopted earlier this month in 15 French municipalities, including the famed beach resort Cannes,…
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Fast Forward Palestinian With Israeli Roots Wins Jordan’s First Olympic Medal
— Jordan won its first-ever Olympic medal thanks to the performance of a Palestinian taekwondo fighter whose family left Israel 20 years ago. Abu Ghoush, who was born in Jordan, received a call from Jordan’s King Abdullah II, who congratulated him on winning gold Thursday at the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Games. In addition…
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Fast Forward Macedonia’s Tiny Jewish Community Rallies to Aid of Flood Victims
–Members of the tiny Jewish community of Macedonia and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee distributed hundreds of aid packages to victims of deadly floods that forced thousands out of their homes in the Balkan nation. The Joint, or JDC, along with the Jewish Community of the Republic of Macedonia and the Holocaust Fund of…
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Fast Forward 40 Orthodox Clergy Condemn Donald Trump’s ‘Hateful Rhetoric’
(JTA) — Forty American Orthodox clergy co-signed a letter condemning Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump for what they called his “hateful rhetoric and intolerant policy proposals.” The letter — whose signatories included Irving “Yitz” Greenberg, the founding president of Clal-The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership in New York City — was Friday on the website Cleveland.com. Noting that…
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Fast Forward Is Dutch Aliyah Killing Its Jewish Institutions?
AMSTERDAM — The effects of the Holocaust in the Netherlands and Jewish emigration have made Dutch Jewry’s communal institutions unsustainable, a key figure of that community said. Michel Waterman, the director of the Crescas institute for Jewish culture, made the unusual statement during an interview published Tuesday in Het Parool daily ahead of his retirement…
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