Cnaan Liphshiz
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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Fast Forward Brash Ukraine Oligarch Vadim Rabinovich Challenges Europe’s Jewish Leaders
(JTA) — The explosion that ripped through Vadim Rabinovich’s luxury SUV in central Kiev was strong enough to send a shock wave from the parking lot up to his third-floor office in the heart of the Ukrainian capital. “It was a shock for a day or two,” Rabinovich said, “and then I moved on.” The…
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Fast Forward Does Belgium’s Red Star Line Museum Underplay Jewish Rescue From Holocaust?
(JTA) — With the confidence befitting a septuagenarian grandmother, Ellen Bledsoe-Rodriguez briskly leads her family past the beer stalls and DJs that dot the Flemish capital’s historic port on sunny autumn days. Bledsoe-Rodriguez is uninterested in such diversions. She and nine of her relatives had traveled 5,600 miles from California for last week’s opening of…
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News Kenya Jews Stunned by Bloody Westgate Mall Terror Attack in Nairobi
(JTA) — When Rina Attias phoned to say that she was trapped with terrorists inside Nairobi’s Westgate mall, her husband Albert replied with a short instruction: Hang up right now. Albert Attias, the head of the Jewish community in the Kenyan capital and an Israeli military veteran, wanted to communicate with his wife by text…
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News London’s New American-Style JW3 Community Center Opens to Great Expectations
(JTA) — At his office in London’s newly opened, $80 million Jewish community center, Raymond Simonson fumbles with a state-of-the-art telephone switchboard. “Sorry, I’m embarrassed, but we’ve only just moved into our offices,” says Simonson, the 40-year-old boss of London’s first American-style JCC, which opened Sunday. “Now the article will say ‘New CEO can’t even…
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Israel News Israel Forges Close Ties With Azerbaijan — Both Eye Iran
(JTA) — With less than a month to go until presidential elections, the moustachioed smile of Ilham Aliyev stares down at his countrymen from giant posters scattered around this bustling metropolis on the Caspian Sea. The Azerbaijani president has been in office since 2003 and is widely expected to be re-elected, extending the leadership of…
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Fast Forward Jewish Savvy Gives Challenger Boost in Moscow Mayor Race
(JTA) — On the rooftop of a Soviet-era apartment block, a young man straps into climbing gear and rappels down the side as a small gathering of city workers and police officers watch from below. On the way down, the climber stops at a balcony and tears loose one of the thousands of banners hung…
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News Jewish Shtetl Survives in Heart of Muslim Azerbaijan
(JTA) — Even at 70, Yedidia Yehuda can negotiate a narrow mountain path in northern Azerbaijan with a confidence easily mistaken for carelessness. “You take care not to fall yourself and don’t worry about me,” he tells a visitor following him toward a small town on the northern bank of the Kudyal river, where 2,000…
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Opinion Mountain Jews, Dagestan and Dude Named Genghis
(JTA) — An awkward silence set in between me and Genghis after he tells me that I am welcome to spend the night at the Derbent Jewish Community Center, but that I first need to “get clean” in the mikvah. I have not heard of congregations with mandatory ritual immersions for visitors, but this is…
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