Cnaan Liphshiz
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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Fast Forward Greece’s top court rules against ritual slaughter, following recent EU decision upholding bans
(JTA) — The highest court in Greece has ruled against allowing ritual slaughter, fulfilling fears that some Jewish leaders voiced last year after the European Union’s top court ruled in support of such bans. Last December, the EU’s highest court upheld the bans imposed in regions of Belgium against slaughtering animals for meat without stunning…
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Fast Forward Inspired by a 2011 movie, Ukrainian researchers have found the sewer where dozens of Jews escaped the Nazis
(JTA) — The dozens of Jews who escaped the Nazis by hiding in the sewers of Lviv became local and international lore almost immediately after World War II. “In the summer, when the rain seeped in, there was a lot of water everywhere,” Krystyna Chiger recalled in testimony in 1947, when she was 11. “Then…
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Fast Forward Swedish education agency recommends exercise that has students argue the Holocaust never happened
(JTA) — Sweden’s National Agency for Education recommended that teachers should make students try to prove that the Holocaust never happened, as part of a push to help them understand conspiracy theories. The recommendation came in a recently published handbook for high school teachers that the government’s institution in charge of scholastic issues had created,…
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Fast Forward Alta Fixsler, a 2-year-old Jewish girl, taken off life support in UK despite parents wishes
(JTA) — A 2-year-old Jewish girl died in the United Kingdom Monday after she was taken off life support despite her parents’ objections. Alta Fixsler of Manchester, England, had serious natal complications that made her dependent on life support from birth. When medical authorities at the hospital where she was treated wanted to take her…
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Fast Forward In Europe, antisemitism is highest in countries with the fewest racist attacks on Jews
BRUSSELS (JTA) — In an opinion poll on antisemitism in 16 European Union countries, respondents from Poland, Hungary and Greece displayed the highest prevalence of hostile attitudes toward Jews. But despite a high level of antisemitic attitudes, those countries rarely see violent attacks on Jews while countries that experience more frequent attacks on Jews are…
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Fast Forward EU publishes ‘strategic plan’ for countering antisemitism
(JTA) — The European Union has published what it called a strategic plan for combating antisemitism. The 26-page document that the European Commission, the executive branch of the European Union, published Tuesday lists and explains a number of strategies that have been advocated or implemented by various E.U. bodies in recent years. This includes the…
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Fast Forward Auschwitz museum hit with antisemitic graffiti
(JTA) — Police in Poland are investigating antisemitic vandalism at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum. Spray-painted slogans in English and German, some of them “antisemitic in nature,” were found on the museum’s grounds recently, the institution wrote in a statement Tuesday. There were “two references to the Old Testament, often used by antisemites, and denial…
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Fast Forward Alleged Nazi-era war criminal, 96, caught in Germany after skipping trial
(JTA) — Police in Germany arrested a 96-year-old suspected war criminal after she failed to show up for the first day of her trial. The woman, Irmgard Furchner, was indicted in February for complicity in the murders of 10,000 people at Stutthof, a camp in occupied Poland where she served as a secretary during World…
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