Cnaan Liphshiz
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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Fast Forward Banker With Jewish Roots Wins Peru’s Presidential Race
(JTA) — Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, a Peruvian banker and former prime minister whose father was Jewish, was elected as Peru’s president. Kuczynski won a bare majority of votes — 50.12 percent — over Keiko Fujimori, Peru’s national election office announced on its official Twitter page Thursday evening. Kuczynski, 77, was born in Lima to a…
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Fast Forward 70 Eastern European Jewish Cemeteries Preserved
— A German-funded pilot program for protecting Eastern European Jewish cemeteries has helped preserve at least 70 graveyards since 2015, the effort’s initiators told Council of Europe delegates. The briefing Wednesday in Strasbourg about the European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative, or ESJF, came two years after its inception with an initial budget of $1.35 million, Yossi…
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Fast Forward Swiss Jews Oppose Punishing Students for Not Shaking Teacher’s Hand
— Swiss Jews spoke out against a regulation that makes it illegal for schoolchildren to refuse to shake hands with their teachers because of religious reasons. A regional school board last month ruled that schools in Basel Country can fine parents up to $5,000 if their children refuse to shake hands with teachers, as is…
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Fast Forward British Jews Condemn Donald Trump Ahead of Visit
— Ahead of Donald Trump’s planned visit to Britain, leaders of that country’s Jewish community condemned what they said was the Republican presidential nominee’s “divisive and troubling” rhetoric. Trump, who is scheduled to visit Britain on June 22, earlier this month told the Wall Street Journal that an Indiana-born judge with Mexican heritage who is overseeing…
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Fast Forward BDS Motions Scrapped in 4 Spanish Cities After Judicial Ruling
— Following legal action by supporters of Israel, four Spanish municipalities dropped their former policy of support for boycotts of the Jewish state. Occurring amid an unprecedented judicial crackdown in Spain against the phenomenon, three of the four reversals last month came following court-issued injunctions that suspended municipal motions passed in support of a boycott, ACOM,…
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Fast Forward Tel Aviv Gay Pride Parade Draws 200,000 Revelers
JTA — Approximately 200,000 people, including many tourists, gathered in central Tel Aviv for the city’s 23rd gay pride event. The event, whose theme this year is women in the gay, lesbian and transgender community, kicked off Friday morning at Gan Meir, a park that houses the Tel Aviv Municipal LGBT Center. A representative of the…
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Fast Forward Austrian Jewish Leaders Plan to Work With Far-Right Party
JTA — Leaders of Austria’s Jewish community said they are willing to normalize ties with the far-right Freedom Party, which they have previously shunned because of some party members’ Nazi sympathies. Oscar Deutsch, the president of the Jewish Community in Vienna, and his predecessor, Ariel Muzicant, told the nrg news site they have put together a…
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Fast Forward Moscow Chief Rabbi Frets Over Ukraine Honor for Anti-Semites
(JTA) — The chief rabbi of Moscow condemned the honoring in Ukraine of nationalists whose troops massacred Jews. Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, who is also the president of the European Conference of Rabbis, spoke of his “concern” over the trend in an interview Tuesday with JTA during a gathering of the standing committee of the Conference…
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