Shira Li Bartov
By Shira Li Bartov
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Fast Forward South Africa’s chief rabbi supports Donald Trump — but says his refugee program for Afrikaners is a ‘mistake’
The white South Africans are the only refugees the United States is still admitting
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Fast Forward For the first time since Henry VIII created the role, a Jew will helm Hebrew studies at Cambridge
Yeshiva University’s Aaron Koller will be the first Jewish Regius Professor of Hebrew.
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Fast Forward Latvia again closes case against ‘Butcher of Riga,’ tied to mass murder of Jews
Some far-right Latvians venerate Herbert Cukurs, whom Mossad agents assassinated in 1965
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Fast Forward 80 years after Auschwitz, kosher food will be sold in its town of Oświęcim
The Auschwitz Jewish Center is now selling packaged kosher food, in a move both practical and symbolic
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Fast Forward Citing post-Holocaust doctrine, Germany seeks to deport 4 pro-Palestinian protesters, including one American
One of the people who has been ordered to leave the country is a U.S. citizen.
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Fast Forward University of Amsterdam ends student exchange with Hebrew U, saying it’s complicit with Israeli military
About 10 students from each school had participated in the exchange annually
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Fast Forward Jesse Eisenberg receives Polish citizenship after ‘A Real Pain,’ set in Poland, wins Oscar
Eisenberg has said filming in Poland inspired him to seek citizenship in the country his great-aunt fled
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News Archaeology students excavating Warsaw’s main Jewish cemetery are uncovering a forgotten world
In a secluded burial ground blanketed with tragedy and neglect, a group of young people are revealing forgotten fragments of Poland’s Jewish history
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