Cnaan Liphshiz
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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Fast Forward Bulgaria Jews Raise Money for Muslim Victims of Train Explosion
— Bulgarian Jews donated some $6,000 to victims of an explosion inside a heavily populated Muslim village, in one of the most successful fundraisers in the history of their impoverished community. The fundraiser organized by the Shalom Organization of the Jews in Bulgaria was for victims of the Dec. 10 accident in Hitrino, in northeastern…
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Fast Forward 650-Year-Old Synagogue in South of France Town of Carpentras Gets Renovation
– Local authorities in the city of Carpentras in southern France allocated $1.25 million for renovating the ceiling of the country’s oldest synagogue ahead of its 650th anniversary next year. The city intends to defray some of the cost through admission fees to exhibitions that it is preparing to put on next year of items connected…
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Fast Forward French Jewish Historian Sued Over ‘Far-Right Rhetoric’ Against Muslims
— One of the world’s leading historians on the Jewish communities in Arab countries is being prosecuted in France for alleged hate speech against Muslims. The Morocco-born French-Jewish scholar Georges Bensoussan, 64, is due to appear next month before a Paris criminal court over a complaint filed against him for incitement to racial hatred by the…
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Fast Forward Reputed Jewish Gangster Shot 5 Times in Paris
— A Jewish man described by French police as a gangster was shot five times and severely wounded in Paris. The incident occurred Sunday evening in Paris’ upscale 16th district, which features the Eiffel Tower. The victim, identified as Dominique Guez, sustained at least one shot to the head from a drive-by shooting as he was parking his…
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Fast Forward Was Anne Frank Caught in Probe of Trade in Ration Coupons?
AMSTERDAM — The raid on Anne Frank’s hiding place in Amsterdam may have been over illegal trade in food rations and other issues and not the result of betrayal, new research suggests. On Friday, the Anne Frank House in the Dutch capital published the results of its research into what led policemen working for the Nazi occupation…
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Fast Forward Was Auschwitz an ‘Architectural Achievement’ of Bauhaus Movement?
— A French arts museum defined the death camp Auschwitz as “an architectural achievement of the Bauhaus movement.” The “Spirit of the Bauhaus,” which opened in October at the Museum of Decorative Arts, includes SS officer Fritz Ertl’s designs for the extermination camp among the major achievements of the modernist art movement and school active…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Appeals to Amona Settlers To Spare Children in Evacuation Fight
— Calling his Cabinet “more committed than any other” to West Bank settlements, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged the residents of Amona to leave peacefully ahead of the evacuation of their illegal outpost. Netanyahu made the plea Friday on his Facebook page, where he posted an open letter addressed to the some 40 settler…
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Fast Forward 72% Drop in Jerusalem Terror Attacks in November
— The number of terrorist attacks recorded in Israel dropped last month by 38 percent over October nationally — largely thanks to a 72-percent drop in incidents in Jerusalem. The Israel Security Agency, or Shin Bet, recorded a total of 95 attacks in November, with only nine in Jerusalem, compared to 153 attacks in October…
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