Cnaan Liphshiz
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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Fast Forward French Teacher at Elite High School Shares Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories
— The French education ministry began investigating a Parisian high school teacher who allegedly shared anti-Semitic conspiracy theories with her pupils on Facebook. CRIF, the umbrella group of French Jewish communities, complained to the ministry about the teacher earlier this week, according to a report Thursday in the group’s newsletter. It did not name the female teacher…
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Fast Forward French Aliyah Down by 32% in 2016
– Jewish immigration from France to Israel decreased by 32 percent in the first half of 2016 compared to the corresponding period last year. The decrease in French immigration is part of a 10-point drop in overall Jewish immigration to Israel, or aliyah, according to a Jewish Agency for Israel interim report obtained by JTA….
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Fast Forward Scottish Jews Feel Less Comfortable Amid Independence and Brexit Drama
– The organization representing Scottish Jewry reported a significant deterioration from 2013 in congregants’ level of comfort living as Jews in Scotland. The Scottish Council of Jewish communities, or ScoJeC, released on Wednesday a report that it called “sobering” and “very perturbing” based on a survey filled out by 300 people after 2014. Nearly one-third of respondents…
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Fast Forward Firebomb Attack on Hasidic Luminary’s Grave in Ukraine
– Unidentified individuals hurled firebombs at the gravesite of a Hasidic luminary in the central Ukrainian city of Shpola. The incident in the city located 120 miles south of the capital, Kiev, occurred on Sunday evening, according to Eduard Dolinsky, director of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee. Dolinsky wrote on Facebook Monday that the perpetrators intentionally tried to…
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Fast Forward Infamous Lithuania Concentration Camp Now Used as ‘Mysterious’ Wedding Venue
(JTA) — In the drab city of Kaunas 55 miles west of Vilnius, there are few heritage sites as mysterious and lovely looking as the Seventh Fort. This 18-acre red-brick bunker complex, which dates to 1882, features massive underground passages that connect its halls and chambers. Above ground, the hilltop fortress is carpeted with lush…
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Fast Forward 2 Prominent Dutch Jews Die Hours Apart on Same Day
AMSTERDAM — Two of Dutch Jewry’s best-known public figures, Uri Coronel and Bloeme Evers, died on the same day. Coronel was the chairman of the Israelite Portuguese Community of the Netherlands. He died on Monday at the age of 69 after he collapsed at a gym while exercising, the Dutch Israelite Religious Community, or NIK, said in…
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Fast Forward Why Did Paris Grand Synagogue Host Far-Right Historian
— A leader of French Jewry criticized a major Paris synagogue’s hosting of a debate featuring a controversial Jewish historian popular in far-right circles, who said France’s pro-Nazi puppet government saved French Jews during the Holocaust. Francis Kalifat, the president of the CRIF umbrella group of French Jewish communities, on Friday told JTA that Eric…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Calls Mahmoud Abbas To Offer Condolences Over Brother’s Death
– Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to offer condolences on the death of Abbas’ brother. Omar Abbas died in Qatar Thursday, with the funeral taking place on Friday. He had been suffering from cancer and had been undergoing treatment in Tel Aviv’s Assuta Medical Center, the AFP news agency…
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