Cnaan Liphshiz
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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Fast Forward Czech Children’s Volleyball Team named for Poison Used by Nazis
— Czech Jews protested the naming of a children’s volleyball team after the poison that Nazis used to kill Jews and Roma in gas chambers during the Holocaust. The team Cyklon B – the Czech-language transliteration for the Zyklon B pesticide that the Nazis used — participated recently in a Prague tournament featuring teams from…
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Fast Forward British Labour Activist Jackie Walker Suspended Over Anti-Semitic Comments
— A British Labour Party activist who once accused Jews of financing slavery was suspended from her party for bemoaning Jews’ centrality at Holocaust commemorations. The Oct. 1 suspension of Jackie Walker over comments about the Holocaust follows the publication last month of a video showing her speaking about the issue at a public meeting about anti-Semitism, where she…
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News Why Bukharian Jews Are Already Missing Uzbekistan’s Late Strongman Islam Karimov
(JTA) — Driving through this dusty desert city of many ornate and ancient mosques, Shirin Yakubov recalls the ruthlessness of her country’s recently deceased president of 25 years. “He killed all of them, every last one,” she says of Islam Karimov’s role in the 2005 police massacre of hundreds of suspected Islamists in the eastern…
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Fast Forward Ehud Barak Says Netanyahu’s Feud with Obama Cost Israel $4.5B in Defense Aid
— Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak said Benjamin Netanyahu cost Israel $4.5 billion in defense aid because of Netanyahu’s strained relations with President Barack Obama. Barak’s latest criticism of Israel’s current prime minister came during an interview for Army Radio on Thursday in which Barak quantified for the first time claims he made recently —…
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Fast Forward Israeli Statue Lures Women Hoping to Conceive
— An Israeli municipality near Tel Aviv urged young religious women to refrain from touching a statue that some visitors believe has the power to increase fertility. The unusual statement by Ramat Gan Deputy Mayor Adva Pollak follows pilgrimages in recent weeks to a statue titled “Birth,” by the late artist Menashe Kadishman, which was…
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Fast Forward Portuguese Town Unveils 400-Year-Old Torah used by Crypto-Jews
— A small city in northeast Portugal unveiled for the first time a 400-year-old Torah scroll that a local contractor had found 10 years ago at a demolition site and kept wrapped up in linen. The ancient scroll, written on parchment, was put on display in Covilha’s city hall on Friday, Portugal’s Diario de Noticias…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Incidents Drop Dramatically in France
— Anti-Semitic incidents in France have decreased by 64 percent in the first half of 2016 compared to a year ago, according to a French official who credited his government’s policing around Jewish institutions. Gilles Clavreul, France’s interministerial delegate for the fight against racism and anti-Semitism, said this week that the drop began in June 2015…
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Fast Forward ‘Real Housewives’ Dumps Socialite Jules Wainstein as Marriage Crumbles
— The cable network Bravo dropped from its popular reality television show “The Real Housewives of New York City” the socialite Jules Wainstein, who is involved in a messy alimony fight with her estranged husband. Wainstein, whose mother is Jewish and whose father is Japanese, joined the show last year for its eighth season but…
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