Cnaan Liphshiz
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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Fast Forward American-Style Jewish Community Center Opens in Kiev
(JTA) — The Ukrainian capital of Kiev, where Jewish cultural life has largely revolved around the city’s synagogues, opened its first American-style Jewish Community Center. The Halom JCC officially opened Tuesday at a ceremony attended by hundreds of guests in central Kiev, where it is expected to serve thousands of community members every month, according…
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Fast Forward Kuwaiti’s Anti-Semitic Facebook Post, Punished in France
— A French court convicted a university student from Kuwait of incitement to hatred following her anti-Semitic rants in social media. The High Court of Paris convicted Amira Jumaa, 21, on Wednesday, Le Monde Juif reported. The report did not say whether she was sentenced. Last year, Junaa lost her internship at the French Consulate…
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Fast Forward Israeli Officials Named as ’50s Soviet Agents in KGB Papers
— Dozens of Israeli defense officials, journalists and even lawmakers were listed in documents containing the names of alleged spies for the Soviet Union’s KGB intelligence arm mostly in the 1950s. Among the names listed in the documents published Friday by the Yediot Acharonot daily was Moshe Sneh, a senior member of the Haganah prestate…
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Fast Forward Tiny Forbidden Pendant Unearthed in Auschwitz Attic
– A tiny carved wooden clog that once belonged to a woman the Nazis deported to the Auschwitz death camp has been discovered after more than 70 years. Smaller than a matchstick, the pendant “is a real piece of art from Auschwitz,” Agnieszka Molenda, who runs the Foundation of Memory Sites near Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland,…
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Fast Forward Dutch Jews ‘Outraged’ by Anti-Gay Fliers Citing the Torah
AMSTERDAM — Dutch police are considering whether to indict for incitement to hatred three men who passed out fliers in Amsterdam condemning homosexuality, citing it “being forbidden by Judaism, Christianity and Islam.” The men, aged 29 to 39, surrendered themselves to police after officers questioned a man whose car the suspects said they borrowed to…
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Fast Forward Schindler’s Factory Moves Closer to Becoming Czech Museum
— Oskar Schindler’s former factory in the Czech Republic will be declared a listed monument by the country, the Oskar-Schindler Foundation said. The foundation took over the management of the dilapidated building in the village of Brnenec in August. It plans to restore the building and turn it into a Holocaust memorial by 2019, the…
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Fast Forward Burial Slab of Jesus Uncovered for First Time in Centuries
— Researchers recently uncovered in Jerusalem a stone burial slab that many believe Jesus Christ’s body may have been laid on following his death. The original surface of the tomb was uncovered in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in the Old City during restoration work and has been covered by marble cladding since at…
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Fast Forward Hungary Church Pitches In To Build Torah Ark for Fire-Ravaged Synagogue
— A Methodist church in Hungary offered to pay for the construction of Torah ark for a Budapest synagogue ravaged by fire. The Zuglo Synagogue in the Hungarian capital’s 14th district sustained heavy damage in a blaze that broke out Monday night, possibly as a result of an electric failure. No one was injured but…
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