Cnaan Liphshiz
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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Fast Forward Antwerp Jews Protest Moving Of Holocaust Monument To ‘Quieter Place’
(JTA) — Belgian Jews protested the unilateral decision by the city of Antwerp to move its main Holocaust monument from a place where victims were rounded up to another part of the city with less traffic. The Forum of Jewish Organizations of the Flemish Region — one of the three autonomous entities that make up the…
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Fast Forward ‘Accident’ At French Cemetery Sparks Conspiracy Theories
(JTA) — Five days after a municipal truck plowed through a Jewish cemetery near Paris in what authorities said was a freak accident, Isabelle Zenou arrived at the scene of the incident with a camera — and a theory. The March 20 devastation of 13 gravestones in the suburb of Pantin was not an anti-Semitic…
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Fast Forward Serbia To Offer Restitution To Holocaust Survivors Abroad
(JTA) — Two months after landmark legislation offering restitution to Holocaust survivors was passed in Serbia, the Balkan country launched a program extending compensation also to former Serbian survivors living abroad. The World Jewish Restitution Organization, or WJRO, announced the launch of the program on Tuesday, adding that the estimated 1,000 Holocaust survivors from Serbia living…
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Fast Forward Amsterdam Couple Drops Lawsuit Over Holocaust Memorial
(JTA) — A Dutch couple who sued the municipality of Amsterdam over the placing of a postcard-sized Holocaust memorial plaque near their home have dropped their motion as a result of harsh criticism. The couple, who live in the upscale Old South neighborhood of the Dutch capital, told the Volkskrant daily on Sunday that the…
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Fast Forward Amsterdam Removes Holocaust Memorial Plaque After Residents Complain
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — City workers dislodged and relocated a postcard-sized memorial plaque from the entrance to the former home in Amsterdam of a Holocaust victim following complaints by residents. The plaque — a brass cobblestone bearing the name of Joachim Elte that in 2014 was embedded into the sidewalk of 3 Nicolass Maes Street —…
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Fast Forward Krav Maga Is Trending In Paris After Anti-Semitic Incident
PARIS (JTA) — In a dark alley in a poor suburb of this city, five men with violence on their minds closed in fast on 17-year-old Netanel Azoulay and his older brother, Yaakov. “Dirty Jews, you’re going to die!” one man yelled. The driving dispute quickly transformed into something physical, with one of the assailants…
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Fast Forward Did Brooklyn Man Lure Teen Boys With Notes In Tefillin Bags?
(JTA) — Police in New York arrested a Jewish man they say tricked at least two Jewish boys into a conversation that was inappropriate with notes in their tefillin bags. Menachem Tyk, 59, from the heavily Orthodox Borough Park park section of Brooklyn, was arraigned Thursday on charges of reckless endangerment and harassment. He allegedly put…
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Fast Forward Vandals Smash 40 Headstones In Historic French Jewish Cemetery
(JTA) – A Jewish cemetery in France saw 80 percent of its tombstones smashed by unidentified perpetrators. A passerby noticed the devastation earlier this week at the disused, 18th-century Jewish cemetery of Waldwisse, a village situated 215 miles east of Paris, the France3 television channel reported yesterday. The attack – the second one since 2014…
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