Cnaan Liphshiz
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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Fast Forward Budapest Rabbi Raises Hackles With Interview To Far-Right News Site
(JTA) — A senior rabbi from Budapest stirred controversy in his community by granting an interview to a news website that is widely identified with the far-right Jobbik party. Zoltan Radnoti, the chairman of the rabbinical council of the Mazsihisz Jewish umbrella group in Hungary, spoke with a reporter for the Alfahir news website in…
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Fast Forward Rabbis Slam European Ruling Allowing Ban On Religious Garb
**PARIS (JTA) — European rabbis condemned an E.U. court’s ruling allowing firms to prohibit employees’ religious clothes and symbols, saying the ruling amounts to saying that “faith communities are no longer welcome.” The ruling Tuesday by the European court of justice in Luxembourg also said that customers cannot simply demand that workers remove headscarves if…
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Fast Forward Dutch Muslims Shout Anti-Semitic Slogans During Protest Over Turkish Cabinet Minister
([JTA](http://www.jta.org ” “JTA”)) — Dutch Muslims shouted anti-Semitic slogans amid violent clashes with police over authorities’ refusal to allow a Turkish Cabinet minister to campaign in Holland for a Turkey referendum vote. Dozens of protesters gathered on Saturday night in front of the Turkish consulate in Rotterdam in the Netherlands to listen to Family Minister Fatma Betul…
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Fast Forward French Jewish Historian Cleared Of Anti-Muslim Hate Speech
(JTA) – A French court acquitted the Jewish historian Georges Bensoussan of hate speech charges over his assertion that Arabs receive anti-Semitism with their “mother’s milk.” Bensoussan was acquiteed on Tuesday, the AFP news agency reported, ending a polarizing trial that observers regarded as a significant test case for determining the boundaries of academic freedom…
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Culture Mask-Maker Draws Inspiration From Amsterdam’s Red Light District — Naughty And Nice
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — For someone who produces and sells masks for a living, it makes sense to set up shop in the center of this city’s famed Red Light District. After all, there are countless masks and costumes on sale in the many adult toy shops that dot this part of the Dutch capital, which…
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Fast Forward Ukrainian Historian Who Praised Nazi Collaborator Invited To Holocaust Conference
(JTA) — Ukrainian Jews protested the attendance at an international symposium on the Holocaust by a state historian who praised a Nazi collaborator whose troops killed Jews. Eduard Dolinsky, director of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee, last week condemned the planned attendance of Volodymyr Vyatrovych, director of Ukrainian National Memory Institute, at a conference planned for Paris this…
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Fast Forward Conservative Jewish Groups Join Interfaith Coalition For Transgender Rights
(JTA) — The Jewish Theological Seminary joined other Jewish Conservative groups in a U.S. Supreme Court appeal against a presidential move that allows schools to decide who may enter gender-segregated bathrooms. On Thursday, JTA wrote in a statement that it has joined an amicus brief designed to uphold the “rights of transgender students to use public…
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Fast Forward French Arab Coexistence Champion Authored Anti-Semitic Tweets
(JTA) – A former culture minister of France distanced herself from an up-and-coming journalist who interviewed her recently following the discovery of virulent anti-Semitic tweets he authored. Christiane Taubira, who last month granted a wide-ranging interview to Mehdi Meklat, 24, of the Les Inrocks magazine, said she would not have afforded him that access had…
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