Cnaan Liphshiz
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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Fast Forward Trump Aides Give Mixed Messages on Jerusalem Embassy Move — and Iran Deal
— Advisors to president elect Donald Trump issued conflicting statements on whether he will keep his campaign pledge to move the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Walid Phares, a senior foreign policy advisor to president elect Donald Trump, said during an interview for the BBC Thursday that, “Many president of the…
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Fast Forward European Far Right Celebrates Donald Trump Victory
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Far-right leaders from across Europe congratulated Donald Trump on his victory in the U.S. presidential election, which they celebrated as a historic turning point. Geert Wilders, a Dutch politician on trial for promising to make sure that the Netherlands has fewer Moroccans, wrote Wednesday on Twitter: “Congratulations, !! A historic victory, a…
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Fast Forward British Jews Warn America: Brexit Vote Shows Donald Trump Could Win
(JTA) — If you’re a Jewish-American liberal who believes that Donald Trump could never become president, British Jews have one word of warning: Brexit. Following the shocking referendum vote in June favoring a British exit from the European Union, many British Jews now believe that their liberal circles and cosmopolitan lifestyles had left them largely…
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Fast Forward 1,000 Jews Gather in Lviv — Ukraine City Honors Far Right Wing Nationalists
LVIV, Ukraine — Nearly 1,000 people attended the largest Jewish gathering held in decades in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, which has numerous monuments honoring Holocaust-era alleged war criminals. The mostly Jewish crowd of 900 people on Saturday night filled the Lviv Theater of Opera and Ballet for a concert and ceremony celebrating a decade…
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Fast Forward Orthodox Rabbis Demand Western Wall compromise
— An Orthodox rabbinical organization joined the call by non-Orthodox Jewish groups in demanding the implementation of a compromise at the Western Wall. The International Rabbinic Fellowship, which was founded seven years ago by Orthodox rabbis in the United States, Canada, South America and Israel, issued its statement Thursday following the latest friction at the…
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Fast Forward Teens in Avignon Synagogue Arson Trial Get Justice, Are Thanked
— Two French teenagers who were suspected of trying to burn down a synagogue were exonerated by video footage showing they prevented a third and older person from setting the fire. The incident, which resulted in neither injury nor damage, occurred on Monday in the southern city of Avignon, the Actualite Juive newspaper reported Wednesday. The…
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Fast Forward Clinton Staff Kibitz About Abedin and Weiner’s Marriage in New Emails
— In leaked correspondence from 2011, Hillary Clinton associates discussed flippantly their concern for her top aide Huma Abedin over her cohabitation with disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner, her husband. The correspondence, released by the WikiLeaks website, took place on June 10 of that year, four days after Weiner admitted that he had sent inappropriate…
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Fast Forward Letter From European President Increases Pressure for Holocaust Restitution on Eastern Europe
— Amid growing pressure on Poland and other Eastern European countries to offer full restitution for plundered Jewish property, the European Parliament’s president reiterated his support for such moves. Martin Schulz, whose European Parliament has passed two resolutions in the 1990s calling for restitution, spoke about the issue in a letter he sent last month to…
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