Cnaan Liphshiz
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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Fast Forward Nobel Laureate Says Poles Persecuted Jews in Holocaust
— A Belarusian Nobel Prize laureate has stirred controversy in Poland by saying that many Poles, including priests, participated in the persecution of Jews during the Holocaust. Svetlana Alexievich, who was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature, made the accusation last month during a visit to New York, the news website WPolityce reported earlier…
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Fast Forward Polish Leader Gets Death Threat Over Anti-Semitic Push
— A Polish lawmaker from a political party with a strong anti-racism agenda said her party head received a hand-written, anti-Semitic death threat whose author signed it as “Sniper.” The note, which is presumably addressed to the leader of the Modern Party, Ryszard Petru, read: “A bird that shits over its nest needs to be shot. Time…
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Fast Forward Just 26% of British Jews Intermarry — Half the Rate of Americans
LONDON — Intermarriage among British Jews in 2011 stood at 26 percent, or roughly half the rate documented among American Jews, according to a new demographic study. The report published Tuesday by the London-based Institute for Jewish Policy Research is based on data from the National Jewish Community Survey and the 2001 and 2011 national censuses….
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Fast Forward Will Scottish Jews Warm to Independence After Brexit Vote?
(JTA) — The last time that Scotland voted on whether to become independent from the United Kingdom, most of its 7,000 Jews thought doing so was a bad idea. Worried that Scottish independence would encourage nationalism and embolden an already aggressive anti-Israel movement with deep roots in the pro-independence camp, Jews here were relieved when,…
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Fast Forward Dutch Jewish Woman Who Suffered Anti-Semitic Abuse Is Evicted
AMSTERDAM — A Dutch court reviewing a neighborly dispute ordered the eviction of a Jewish woman whose neighbor reportedly threatened to kill her and used anti-Semitic insults against her. The court ruled in favor of the Ymere housing corporation, which asked the court to evict the woman, Gabriela Hirschberg, the AT5 television channel reported last…
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Fast Forward British Jews Voted 2-1 Against Brexit: Poll
— Twice as many British Jews voted to remain in the European Union rather than exit, according to a new survey. Conducted by the Survation polling firm earlier this week for The Jewish Chronicle, the opinion poll of 1,000 British Jews showed that 59 percent were displeased by last week’s narrow vote to leave the EU, compared…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Platform Guru Insists: ‘I’m Not Anti-Israel’
(JTA) — James Zogby, one of Bernie Sanders’ appointees to the the Democratic Party’s platform committee, said he had been unfairly typecast as an anti-Israel activist. “I’ve just been cast as the anti-Israel guy,” Zogby, the founder and president of the Arab American Institute, said in an interview Friday in The Jerusalem Post. “People will type you.” This…
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Fast Forward German Rabbi Says Jews Need To Save European Union
— A prominent rabbi in Berlin called on other Jewish community leaders to do everything in their power to prevent additional countries from leaving the European Union after Britain’s vote to exit the bloc. Yehudah Teichtal, a rabbi of the Jewish community of Berlin, made the call Tuesday in a statement about his meeting with…
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