Cnaan Liphshiz
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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Fast Forward Polish Wants To Upgrade Treblinka Museum
— Poland’s government offered to take over from a local authority the responsibility for preserving the grounds of the former Nazi death camp Treblinka, where 870,000 people were murdered. The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage made the offer in a letter it sent last week to the regional government of Mazovia, the Rzeczpospolita daily…
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Fast Forward Lithuania Mayor Dismantles Soviet-Era Building Made From Jewish Headstones
(JTA) – The municipality of Vilnius in Lithuania began dismantled a Soviet-era structure made of Jewish headstones. Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Šimašius removed the first stone from the structure housing an electricity and heating generator on Olandų Street Wednesday, the mayor‘s office said in a statement. The generator was built by the Soviet authorities of Lithuania…
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The Schmooze How David Beckham’s Jewish Grandpa Made Him Feel ‘a Part’ of Tribe
— Former British soccer star David Beckham told a JCC audience in London that although he was not raised Jewish, he feels like a member of the tribe. Beckham, 41, was asked last week at a public interview at the JW3 center, “Do you see yourself as Jewish in any way?” He replied: “My grandfather was Jewish, that was on…
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Fast Forward Jewish Migrants Raise Few Hackles in Britain — Muslims and Roma Unwelcome
— The prospect of Jewish immigration raised the least amount of opposition among respondents to a British survey about attitudes to immigration. A study conducted by the Centre for Social Investigation at Nuffield College in Oxford found that 7 percent of British people would allow no Jewish migrants into the United Kingdom, while 17 percent would…
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Fast Forward Netherlands Bends Pension Law To Pay Jewish Settlers
AMSTERDAM — The Dutch government made a special exception to its own pensions laws in order to keep paying its citizens living in the West Bank, a Dutch newspaper reported. The practice, which applies to several dozen Dutch citizens living in the West Bank, was revealed in a 4,000-word expose published on June 18 in NRC…
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Food Falafel War Erupts in Paris — Who Will Win Battle of Jewish Quarter?
(JTA) — On a crowded sidewalk in the French capital, Yomi Peretz exchanges jokes and backslaps with customers who are waiting in a 20-yard queue in the rain to enter his falafel shop. This chummy interaction comes naturally to Peretz, a tall enthusiast of boxing and poker who owns and runs l’As du Fallafel (The Falafel…
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Fast Forward 2 Women Claim Sigmund Freud’s Grandson Sexually Abused Them
— Two elderly women in Britain said that they had been sexually abused, one of them as a child, by a late lawmaker who was a grandson of the Austrian Jewish psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. The accusations were leveled against Clement Freud, a celebrated British broadcaster and politician, to ITV in a documentary scheduled to be aired Wednesday, the television…
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Fast Forward French Jews Outraged by Islamist Murder of 2 Cops
— French Jews expressed their outrage over the murder of two police officers, a man and his wife, at their home near Paris by an Islamist. Francis Kalifat, president of the CRIF umbrella group of French Jewish communities, on Tuesday conveyed that sentiment, along with his solidarity with the family and security forces, on Twitter over the…
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