Cnaan Liphshiz
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Incidents Drop by 26% n the Netherlands
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — A watchdog on anti-Semitism in the Netherlands recorded 126 incidents it considers anti-Semitic in 2015 — a 26-percent decrease from the previous year. Of the incidents recorded by the Center for Information and Documentation on Israel, or CIDI, in 2015, 36 were in the victims’ direct environment, meaning incidents involving neighbors or…
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Fast Forward Polish Clergy Mark 70th anniversary of Pogrom as Complicity Debate Rages
— Polish clergy and researchers will hold a seminar in Kielce about a historically significant pogrom in which locals killed Holocaust survivors in that city 70 years ago. Occurring amid an acrimonious debate in Poland on local complicity in the Holocaust and the attention it merits, the conference planned for July in Kielce, 110 miles south of Warsaw,…
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News How Whimsical Comic Books Helped One Couple Stay in Love — and Survive the Holocaust
As a Dutch Jewish couple hiding separately from the Nazis, Emmanuel Joels and Hetty van Son were literally drawn together by a comic book of Emmanuel’s romantic invention. After narrowly avoiding deportation to Auschwitz thanks to a policeman’s tip, the young couple spent 2 1/2 years living less than a mile apart, each in the…
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Fast Forward Anti-Israel Activist Elected Head of British Student Union
(JTA) — An activist who supports the BDS movement against Israel was elected president of Britain’s national student union, leading Jewish students to express concern. Malia Bouattia, who is Muslim, on Tuesday became the first black woman to be elected president of the union. In 2014, Bouattia wrote an essay in support or the Boycott,…
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News Is ‘Jeremy Corbyn Effect’ Driving Jews Away From Britain’s Labour Party?
(JTA) — Even before he was kicked out of Britain’s Labour Party for saying that Israel runs the Islamic State terrorist group, Bob Campbell was a marginal figure within the party. A former forest ranger and first-aid trainer from northern England, Campbell, 49, began his Labour career last year volunteering to help the campaign of…
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The Schmooze Kevin Costner in Israel Dismisses BDS Champion Roger Waters
(JTA)— At the Israel premiere of a film starring Kevin Costner, the Hollywood actor said he does not care whether anti-Israel activists, including Roger Waters, disapprove of his visit to the Jewish state. “I don’t ask anyone’s permission to travel,” Costner said in an interview Tuesday a press conference earlier this week at the Cinema City multiplex…
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Food My Overpriced Dinner at Ukraine’s Faux Jewish Eatery
(JTA) — There’s a Jewish-themed restaurant attached to the ruins of the 16th-century Golden Rose Synagogue here. It first caught my eye last month when I was taking photographs of Meylakh Sheykhet, a haredi Jewish man who is fighting to preserve what’s left of the once beautiful structure. Sheykhet insisted I train my lens in…
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Fast Forward Thousands Run Bethlehem Marathon To Protest Israeli Restrictions
(JTA)— More than 4,000 people participated in a Bethlehem marathon designed to highlight travel restrictions imposed on Palestinians by Israel. First conceived in 2013, the fourth annual “Right to Movement” marathon set out Friday from the Church of the Nativity past Israel’s security barrier, which cuts around much of the city, before passing Duheisha refugee camp…
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