Cnaan Liphshiz
By Cnaan Liphshiz
-
Fast Forward British-Muslim Principal Teaches That Jews Want To Rule The World
(JTA)— The founder of a private Muslim school in northern England published anti-Semitic leaflets featuring the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” a British television channel reported. The Sky News report Thursday about Mufti Zubair Dudha, founder and head of the Islamic Tarbiyah Academy in Dewsbury, said the institution of 140 pupils is rare among…
-
Fast Forward Watch: Belgians Protect Israeli Flag at Memorial for Brussels Terror Victims
(JTA) — In the wake of last week’s terror attack in Brussels, Belgians transformed a central square in the capital into an impromptu memorial for the victims. Thirty-five people died last Tuesday in a series of suicide bombings at the city’s main airport and a subway station. Starting the next day, people gathered in Place…
-
News Can Belgium Protect Its Jews? A Community Has Its Doubts
ANTWERP (JTA) – The hundreds of rifle-toting police and soldiers who patrol Isaac Michaeli’s neighborhood have done little to improve his sense of safety. “When the right hand doesn’t know what the left hand is doing, the soldiers might as well be cardboard cutouts,” he said. A jeweler in his 40s, Michaeli lives with his…
-
News Real-Life Anatevka Offers Refuge for Jews in Strife-Torn Ukraine
(JTA) — At the age of 53, Sergey and Elena Yarelchenko fled their native city of Lugansk with three suitcases and moved into a wooden room in a muddy refugee camp outside Kiev. Like hundreds of thousands of refugees from Ukraine’s war-torn east, life for this Jewish couple in 2014 went from a normal bourgeois…
-
Fast Forward Hungary Camp Molds Next Generation of Jewish Leaders — and Couples
(JTA) — Escaping a sudden downpour in the summer of 2012, Andras Paszternak and Barbi Szendy ran to find cover inside an empty cabin at their Jewish summer camp, Szarvas, 100 miles east of Budapest. The two senior counselors, then 31 and 36, respectively, chatted as rain drenched the sprawling compound, where they had passed every…
-
Fast Forward How Facebook Post Brought Closure to Painful Dutch Holocaust Story
(JTA) — Two months before they were deported from the Netherlands to Auschwitz, Louis Barzelay and Flora Snatager invited a few guests to their wedding in Amsterdam. Instead of the yellow star he was legally required to wear, Louis wore a white flower on his lapel as he posed with Flora in a doorway for…
-
The Schmooze Lithuania Book Sparks Soul-Searching About Holocaust Complicity
(JTA) — As the author of a best-seller that deals with female sexuality after 50, the Lithuanian novelist Ruta Vanagaite is used to embarrassing questions from journalists about her private life. But even she was astonished when a reporter for a popular television station demanded to see her birth certificate to ascertain the veracity of…
-
Fast Forward Portugal Right of Return Law Breathes New Life Into Tiny Community
(JTA) — Five years ago, this city’s tiny Jewish community was so strapped for cash it couldn’t afford to fix the deep cracks in its synagogue’s moldy ceiling. The Jewish Community of Porto was also too poor to hire a full-time rabbi because of its small size (50 members) and the paucity of donors in…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Fast Forward Rep. Max Miller says driver called him a ‘dirty Jew’ and threatened to kill his family. A local doctor turned himself in.
- 2
News As Israel attacks, what is life like for Jews in Iran?
- 3
Opinion Bombing Iran, Donald Trump is triggering a tragedy that Thucydides foretold long ago
- 4
Fast Forward Mamdani tells Colbert — and a national audience — why NYC Jews shouldn’t fear him as mayor
In Case You Missed It
-
News Why claims of antisemitism didn’t stop Zohran Mamdani
-
News What a Mayor Mamdani would mean for New York Jews
-
Fast Forward German court overturns ban on far-right antisemitic magazine, citing freedom of expression
-
Fast Forward Majority of Republicans support US joining Israel-Iran conflict while majority of Democrats oppose
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
