Cnaan Liphshiz
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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Fast Forward Lithuania Archeologists Unearth Buried Parts of Demolished Vilna Great Synagogue
VILNIUS, Lithuania — An international team of archeologists unearthed part of the complex that housed the former Great Synagogue of Vilnius, which Soviet authorities destroyed after World War II. An underground floor of a building belonging to the complex that housed the 17th century synagogue was exposed for the first time since 1957 earlier this…
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Fast Forward Manchester Lures British Jews as London Cost of Living Soars
(JTA) — When Yitzchak Horwitz’s family opened one of the first Jewish businesses in this leafy suburb of Manchester — a bookstore that also sold Judaica items — it served a small Jewish community that had only recently moved there from the downtown area. “The center was run-down after the war, living conditions deteriorated, we…
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Fast Forward Polish Mayor Skips Memorial for Jews Massacred by Neighbors
JEDWABNE, Poland (JTA) — Some 150 people attended a commemoration on the 75th anniversary of a massacre of hundreds of Polish Jews by their neighbors in the country’s northeast. Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, also attended Sunday’s ceremony in the town of Jedwabne, whose history is controversial in Poland because it involves…
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Fast Forward Jewish Couple Murdered, Their Bodies Mutilated in Morocco
– Two Moroccan Jews were killed in Casablanca in what police said was a crime motivated by greed, but which some media said may have had a racist element. The victims of the killing on July 3 were Sam Toledano and Vicky Chetrit, a couple based in the coastal city, the online edition of Le360 daily…
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Fast Forward Spanish Leftists Under Fire for ‘Anti-Semitic’ Depiction of Barack Obama
— Spanish Jews condemned a left-wing party’s use of alleged anti-Semitic imagery to protest against President Barack Obama’s upcoming visit to the country. The Madrid branch of Izquerda Unida, or United Left, on Thursday tweeted the controversial image, which shows a depiction of a thick-lipped Obama standing behind a wall amid explosions while hugging an…
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Fast Forward Newt Gingrich Denounces Star of David Attacks on Donald Trump as ‘Smear’
— Newt Gingrich defended Donald Trump’s use of an image resembling the Star of David in a tweet criticizing Hillary Clinton as corrupt. The former House speaker, who is one of the top candidates to be Trump’s vice presidential nominee on the Republican ticket, said in a phone interview with CNN Thursday that he was…
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Fast Forward 5 Police Officers Killed at Dallas Rally Against Brutality — Federation Denounces Violence
— Five officers were shot dead in Dallas at a protest against police violence. Several suspects were implicated in the firing at the officers on Thursday night during protests against police in downtown Dallas, marking the deadliest single attack on U.S. law enforcement since September 11, 2001, CNN reported. Some of the shots were sniper fire. The…
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Fast Forward Belgian Jews Demands Europe Action on Mahmoud Abbas ‘Blood Libel’
— A Jewish newspaper from Belgium urged European leaders to condemn a false statement by Mahmoud Abbas, who spoke in Brussels about Jewish settlers seeking to poison water wells. The Joods Actueel monthly on Monday published an open letter on the matter by its editor-in-chief, Michael Freilich, to German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Freilich’s letter was about…
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