Cnaan Liphshiz
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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Fast Forward Belgian Jews Cheer Freezing Of Aid To Palestinian School
(JTA) — Belgian Jewish groups welcomed the decision by their country’s foreign ministry to freeze $3.8 million in funding for Palestinian schools following the renaming of a recipient institution for a terrorist who killed Jewish civilians. Tuesday’s move, which the Forum of Jewish Organizations of Belgium’s Flemish Region said was “the right thing to do,”…
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Fast Forward Australian Lawmaker Attacks National Broadcaster Over ‘Anti-Israel Bias’
SYDNEY (JTA) — A Jewish member of the Australian government advertised with taxpayer money perceived examples of anti-Israel bias in the media. Michael Danby paid The Australian Jewish News to publish two half-page ads pointing out treatment differences on two stories reported by the Jerusalem correspondent of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Sophie McNeill. Danby’s gripe,…
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Fast Forward The Gritty Town That’s England’s Fastest Growing Jewish Community
It’s lunchtime, and as they wait for their sandwiches at a kosher deli, five young haredi Orthodox men have a lively discussion in Yiddish about Jewish texts. Such a scene may be mundane in Jerusalem or New York, or even Antwerp or London. But it’s not a sight that many outside Britain would associate with…
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Fast Forward Celebrating Sukkot In Japan Requires Creativity — And A Bit Of Smuggling
KOBE, Japan (JTA) — Like many international smugglers, the one servicing the Jewish community of this port city 300 miles east of Tokyo has perfected his poker face to avoid customs inspections. He brings in kosher meat and, ahead of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, three of the four species — the plants that Jews…
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Fast Forward Barcelona Chaos Had This Israeli Lawmaker Dodging Rubber Bullets
(JTA) — Seeing armed police in riot gear outside a school in Barcelona, the Israeli lawmaker Ksenia Svetlova felt the instincts kick in from her days as a Middle East reporter for Russian-language media. “One look was enough to see these officers were preparing for something bad,” said Svetlova, a Zionist Union lawmaker who was in…
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Fast Forward Catalonia Jewish Community Divided By Independence Vote
(JTA) — Violence between police and pro-independence protesters in Barcelona will not disrupt holiday services there, a leader of the Jewish community said. Victor Sorenssen, a leader of the Jewish community of the capital of Catalonia, an autonomous region with its own language and many residents who seek independence from Spain, said the city’s Jewish…
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Fast Forward Why Amsterdam’s Spectacular Sephardic Jewel Goes Candle-Lit For Yom Kippur
(JTA) — As one of Europe’s oldest and most impressive Jewish buildings, this city’s Portuguese Synagogue is known far and wide for its majestic beauty. Its architect is said to have drawn inspiration from Solomon’s Temple. While the Portuguese Synagogue was later eclipsed by even larger and more magnificent shuls — like the one on…
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Fast Forward Tunisia’s Ancient Jewish Community Braves An Uncertain Future
DJERBA, Tunisia (JTA) — Anticipating the sun’s rapid ascent in the African skies, six barefoot men align themselves early in the morning in a drafty corridor of the still-cool interior of Africa’s oldest synagogue. Casually humming a biblical hymn in Hebrew, they and an Israeli journalist hold off on holiday prayers in the hope of…
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