Cnaan Liphshiz
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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Fast Forward Film on Famed French Fraudster Living Free In Israel Stirs Unease
PARIS (JTA) — An authoritative voice and phone credit was all Gilbert Chikli needed to steal millions of euros from seasoned bankers and businessmen in his native France. One of France’s most famous criminals, the 50-year-old Chikli was sentenced in May by a Paris court to seven years in jail for defrauding dozens of telephone…
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The Schmooze How Klezmer United Jews of One Post-Soviet Russian City
Kazan, Russia — When the six members of the Simcha klezmer band hauled their instruments into a dilapidated rehearsal space, no one suspected they were about to hijack a government building in this large, clean city some 450 miles east of Moscow. But that’s exactly what happened in 1995 when this popular ensemble — founded in…
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Fast Forward French Jews, Struggling After Aliyah, Consider Saying ‘Au Revoir, Israel’
RAANANA, Israel (JTA) – Before she traded her native France for Israel, Catherine Berdah ran a successful drug store in an affluent suburb on the eastern edge of Paris. A 50-year-old pharmacist with a master’s degree in business and decades of experience, Berdah earned over $6,000 per month and presided over an expanding business with…
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News Do Anti-Semitic Attacks Signal End of ‘Marseille Miracle’?
(JTA) — Only three years ago, the Jews of Marseille were able to congregate without security and in relative safety in their synagogues and community centers. While violence by Muslim extremists rose throughout France, it largely spared the southern port city, where 80,000 Jews and 250,000 Muslims live. When I visited in late 2012, I…
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Fast Forward The Real Reason French Jews Are Leaving France in Record Numbers
PARIS (JTA) — Last year may have been traumatic for France and its Jews, but it was a pretty good one for Rudy Abecassis. In a year that began with the Charlie Hebdo shooting and the subsequent killing of four at a kosher supermarket in Paris, Abecassis, 32, a Marseille-born computer specialist who moved to…
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Opinion ‘Stalin Spins in Grave’ as Jewish Reporter Spends Hanukkah at the Kremlin
(JTA) — Like many tourists in Red Square, I have often wondered what lies beyond the tall walls that separate this Moscow attraction from the Kremlin, the official residence of Russia’s president and the nerve center of the state. As a journalist long obsessed with Russia, I’ve wanted to take a peek inside the Kremlin for…
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Food Dutch Hummus Joint Serves Healthy Palestinian Cuisine
Yuval Gal at his hummus restaurant in The Hague. JTA — Like many Israelis in Europe, Yuval Gal and Muawi Shehadeh decided to market their hummus restaurant specifically to health-minded vegetarians. A Jew from Tel Aviv and an Arab-Israeli from Nazareth, the duo this year began peddling their native country’s signature chickpea paste at an…
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Fast Forward Gleaming $20M JCC Opens in Luxe Moscow Suburb
(JTA) — On the only road connecting this affluent village on Moscow’s western outskirts, Russian secret service agents are blocking all inbound traffic. Drivers bound for Zhukovka pull over and step out to smoke while chatting with other motorists as a line of luxury cars grows on the shoulder of a two-lane road. The closures are…
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