Cnaan Liphshiz
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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News Report: Jewish Comic T.J. Miller Arrested After Hitting Uber Driver
— Comedian T.J. Miller was arrested for allegedly slapping his Uber driver following a heated discussion with him over Donald Trump. The driver, who was bringing Miller back to his Hollywood home from the GQ magazine’s Men of the Year bash, made a citizen’s arrest Thursday after he said the comic hit him on the…
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Fast Forward EU Official Says It Can Fight Anti-Semitism Without Solid Definition
BRUSSELS — The absence of an EU definition for hatred of Jews does not compromise efforts to fight the phenomenon, the body’s coordinator on combating anti-Semitism said. Katharina von Schnurbein, who last year became the first EU official to hold the title, defended the European Union’s ability to counter anti-Semitism in an interview with JTA at…
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Fast Forward Dutch Police Use DNA To Arrest Suspect From 1990 Murder Mystery
AMSTERDAN — Based on DNA analysis, Dutch police arrested an Israeli man whom they say killed an Israeli woman in the Netherlands 26 years ago. Officer re-investigating the case identified the suspect in the 1990 lethal stabbing of Miriam Sharon in The Hague as Daniel Amunah, a 52-year-old Israeli man with a history of property and…
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Fast Forward French Jews Rally Behind Manuel Valls — Does Socialist Have Any Chance of Winning?
(JTA) — Although his country is entering one of the most dramatic election campaigns in recent memory, Isy Morgensztern had no intention of exercising his right to vote. A left-wing Ashkenazi Jewish filmmaker from Paris, Morgensztern was too disappointed with the ruling Socialists under French President Francois Hollande to vote for them a second time…
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Fast Forward Complaint Filed After Dutch Party’s Muslim Founders Say Hitler Was Jewish
AMSTERDAM — A Dutch anti-discrimination group complained to police over a political party whose Muslim founders said Adolf Hitler was Jewish and that homosexuality was a contagious illness. The Bureau Against Discrimination on Wednesday filed the hate speech complaint over the Free Democracy Party, which was established last week ahead of the general parliamentary election scheduled for March,…
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Fast Forward Polish Restitution Group Launches Database on Looted Jewish Warsaw Property
(JTA) — Responding to legislation deemed harmful to efforts to return privately owned Jewish property in Warsaw, a major restitution group said it was building a database to facilitate claims. The World Jewish Restitution Organization, or WJRO, announced the new tool Monday, three months after regulations went into effect that drastically limited the window for filing claims for…
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Fast Forward Stolen Georgia Torah Scroll Found Destroyed
(JTA) — Unidentified individuals broke into a synagogue in the Caucasus republic of Georgia, stole its Torah scroll and destroyed it. The incident happened sometime after the synagogue of Gori, a city located 65 miles northwest of the capital Tbilisi, was temporarily closed on Nov. 26, police said. The Jewish community discovered the damage on Friday, when they reopened the synagogue. Parts of…
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Fast Forward Iran Owns 5% of German Firm Building Submarines for Israel
(JTA) — An Iranian state-owned firm has substantial shares in the German shipping giant that is supplying the Israeli Navy with submarines, a newspaper in Israel reported. The Iranian investments in ThyssenKrupp began in the 1970s and were inherited by the Islamic regime when it took over Iran in the 1979 revolution, Yediot Acharonot reported…
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