Cnaan Liphshiz
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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Fast Forward Israel suspends school trips to Poland, citing interference in content and security issues
The move, which affects 7,000 students this year, follows a diplomatic crisis between the two countries on how to talk about the Holocaust.
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Fast Forward A chief rabbi in Ukraine denies sexual misconduct allegations
U.K. Jewish group cuts ties to European Jewish Congress over claims against its treasurer, Yaakov Dov Bleich.
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Fast Forward In 1st, pope hosts Yad Vashem director at Vatican — but didn’t discuss Catholic Church’s Holocaust controversies
None of the Holocaust-related controversies straining Jewish-Catholic relations came up during the 30-minute meeting by Francis and Dani Dayan.
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Fast Forward Moscow’s chief rabbi in exile after refusing to back Putin’s war on Ukraine, relative says
Pinchas Goldschmidt, who was briefly kicked out of Russia in 2005, is generally tight lipped about politics.
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Fast Forward Jewish man beaten and allegedly called ‘dirty Jew’ while campaigning for his political candidate wife in France
Several men ran down Liron Rozenhaft while he was putting up posters for his wife in Strasbourg.
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Fast Forward Orthodox rabbis don’t enter churches. So why did Britain’s chief rabbi attend service at one?
A special concession designed to strengthen Jews' ties with royalty permitted Ephraim Mirvis to attend Queen Elizabeth II's jubilee bash
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Israel News After decades of waiting, 300 of Ethiopia’s Falash Mura to leave for Israel this week
“I have been waiting to leave because this is not my home,” Kefale Tayachew Damtie, a father of six whose family is bound for Israel, told JTA.
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Fast Forward After unearthing social media posts, French prosecutors now suspect antisemitism in elderly Jew’s death
A coalition of French Jewish groups said it welcomed the development but questioned why the press, not the police, first identified the alleged killer’s social media posts.
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