Cnaan Liphshiz
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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Fast Forward French Jew Survives ‘Anti-Semitic’ Stabbing in Strasbourg
— A French Jew in his sixties was stabbed in Strasbourg in a suspected anti-Semitic attack. The man, who was wearing a kippah when the incident happened, was leaving his home when a suspect who is in police custody allegedly stabbed him in abdomen Friday morning, Le Figaro reported. According to Le Monde, the victim,…
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Fast Forward Judge Nixes Jewish Community Service for Orthodox Men in Racial Beating Case
– Two Orthodox Jews who beat up a gay black man in New York were sentenced to 150 hours of community service — and a judge rejected their proposal to work for a Jewish organization. Pinchas Braver and Abraham Winkler, who admitted to participating in the December 2013 beating, were sentenced Tuesday in New York…
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Fast Forward Jewish Doctor Named as Key Figure in Russia’s Olympic Doping Scandal
— A Russian physician of Jewish descent who for decades has been illegally doping athletes is one of the central figures in the scandal that led to the partial ban on Russia in the Rio Olympics, The New York Times reported. The report Saturday on Dr. Sergei Portugalov was based in part on a document…
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Fast Forward Jared Kushner Once Broke Up With Ivanka Trump Over ‘Religion Issue’
— Prior to Ivanka Trump’s conversion to Judaism in 2010, she and her then-boyfriend Jared Kushner broke up briefly over their religious differences before marrying a year later, The New Yorker reported. Kushner and Trump, the daughter of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, split in 2008, prompting a common friend, Wendi Deng Murdoch — the…
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Fast Forward Rabbinic Court Seeks End to ‘Alimony Inflation’ With $260K Cap
— Jerusalem’s regional rabbinical court asked Israel’s chief rabbinate to set a 1 million shekel limit on the compensation that Jewish grooms may prenuptially pledge to pay their wives in case of a divorce. The unusual request earlier this month follows a divorce in which a man’s ex-wife demanded he pay her NIS 555,555 (roughly…
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Fast Forward Polish President Pens Passionate Eulogy for Sobibor Survivor
– In an unusual gesture, the president of Poland published a long statement eulogizing a Holocaust survivor who was among a handful of people to have escaped the Sobibor death camp in the country’s east. Andrzej Duda published his 650-word eulogy of Filip Białowicz on the president’s official website on Friday. “We are saying goodbye to…
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Fast Forward Reform Jews Join Blacks in Voting Rights Push
— Reform Jews are preparing to kick off a nationwide initiative aimed at facilitating voter participation in the black community and beyond in the 2016 presidential election. The voting rights initiative of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism is scheduled to begin on Thursday in Raleigh, North Carolina in cooperation with NAACP and PICO…
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Fast Forward Bar Refaeli’s Father Busted for Scuffling With Police
— The father of top Israeli model Bar Refaeli was placed under house arrest for allegedly assaulting police officers who came to his home to investigate a neighbor’s noise complaint. Rafi Refaeli was arrested Saturday at his home north of Tel Aviv, Ynet reported Monday. He and a friend are accused of assaulting the officers outside the…
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