Cnaan Liphshiz
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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Fast Forward IDF Chief Rabbi Sorry for Remarks Justifying Wartime Rape
(JTA) – Eyal Karim, the rabbi whose appointment as the chief chaplain of the Israeli army was suspended over his remarks on raping women, was sworn in to the position. Karim’s appointment as the chief rabbi of the Israel Defense Forces follows a Supreme Court review of his suitability last month. The court found no…
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Food Why Brazilian Jews Are Celebrating Historic UN Vote on Israel With Prime Beef and a Ton of Garlic
JTA — Brazilian Jews rarely require excuses for combining their love for a good party with their other great passion: red meat. Weddings, bar mitzvahs, britot — even funerals — all serve as perfectly legitimate pretexts for throwing churrascos, the Portuguese-language word for barbecues featuring morsels served rodizio-style: Meat that is sliced for each diner…
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Fast Forward Meet the Dutch Jewish Journalist Who Unmasked a Nazi “Monster’
(JTA) — Forty years after his reporting exposed one of the worst war criminals in Dutch history, Hans Knoop is still celebrated in his native Netherlands as a hero. On Nov. 23, more than a million television viewers watched a public broadcaster’s historical period drama on how Knoop, a Dutch Jewish journalist, unmasked the art…
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Fast Forward French Presidential Candidate Says Jews Once Wanted to Break the Law
– Francois Fillon, a leading contender in the upcoming French presidential election, suggested Jews do not respect French law. Fillon, a former prime minister who this week won the first round of the presidential primary in France’s center-right Republicans party, made the assertion during an interview Wednesday with Europe1 radio, in which he cited Jews as proof that…
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Fast Forward Righteous Gentile’s Son Wants Name Pulled From Razed Palestinian Village
AMSTERDAM — The son of a Dutch couple that hid Jews from the Nazis is seeking the removal of his father’s name from a monument that was built on what used to be a Palestinian village. Erik Ader, whose father and mother, Bastiaan Jan and Johanna Ader, are believed by the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum to have…
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Fast Forward Is Europe’s Far Right Enjoyng a Populist ‘Trump Bounce’?
(JTA) — European far-right politicians were quick to hold up Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election as a harbinger of their own impending triumphs. Marine Le Pen, head of France’s far-right party, said that what Europeans call “the Trump effect” — that is, right-wing nationalism fueled by anger toward political elites and mistrust…
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Fast Forward Swiss Government Wants Jews to Fund Their Own Security Costs
— Switzerland’s Jews need to fund their own security costs even though doing so is really the government’s responsibility, a Swiss government agency said in a report on anti-Semitism. The unusual assertion came in a report published last week by the Swiss interior ministry’s Service for the Fight against Racism. It prompted a mixed reaction…
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Fast Forward Trump Names Mike Pompeo, Iran Deal Critic, as CIA Director
— An Alabama senator who once reportedly called the NAACP “un-American” and a congressman who blasted the Iran nuclear deal were tapped to serve as attorney general and CIA director, respectively, under the Trump administration. A spokesperson for President-elect Donald Trump announced Friday the selections of Sen. Jeff Sessions and Rep. Mike Pompeo to the two…
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