Cnaan Liphshiz
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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Fast Forward Hanukkah’s early start this year put a Siberian tradition on thin ice
(JTA) — The ice menorah of Tomsk has become something of a Hanukkah tradition in that Russian city in Siberia, situated about 2,000 miles east of Moscow. At 10 feet tall and featuring LED lights incorporated into the branches, it shines in the yard of the city’s Chabad synagogue and is seen as a Jewish…
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Fast Forward A Polish ice cream shop owner runs a local Jewish museum. Should he get a prize — or a penalty?
(JTA) — In a small town in Poland, a local ice cream maker is serving up an unusual side dish: a gallery of items once owned by local Jews, including the family that lived in the building before the Holocaust. Jozef Gucwa opened a makeshift museum adjacent to his ice cream parlor in Bobowa, a…
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Fast Forward Israel bars travelers from Africa as new COVID variant puts country ‘on the verge of a state of emergency’
(JTA) — Israel announced a temporarily entry ban for foreigners arriving from Africa following the detection of a resistant coronavirus variant that is sparking global concern. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Friday announced the ban affecting travel from and to seven African countries. “We are currently on the verge of a state of emergency,” Bennett…
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Fast Forward In Poland, plans to build a museum on Schindler survivors’ former camp spark environmental protest
KRAKOW, Poland (JTA) — The concentration camp that the Nazis built in the heart of this picturesque city was “the innermost circle of hell” to Holocaust survivor Leon Leyson. Executions at Plaszow, where prisoners who worked for Oskar Schindler had lived, occurred publicly and daily. The camp commandant, Amon Göth, was a notorious sadist who…
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Fast Forward As more Israelis choose pure olive oil to light the Hanukkah menorah, counterfeiters see an opportunity
JERUSALEM (JTA) — In a supermarket here, Ohad David makes a beeline for the most expensive olive oil in the store. He takes three bottles of the award-winning Midnight Coratina brand, which goes for about $3 per ounce. It has “medium potency, green fruitiness and a green-leaf, grassy bouquet,” according to its description on the website…
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Fast Forward Italian politician apologizes for referring to Holocaust survivor by her Auschwitz tattoo number
(JTA) — A local politician in Italy apologized for referring to a well-known Holocaust survivor Liliana Segre by her concentration camp tattoo number in a Facebook comment criticizing her support for COVID-19 public health measures. Fabio Meroni, a member of the city council of Lissone, a suburb of Milan, who represents the far-right Northern League,…
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Fast Forward A quarter of European Jewish community leaders say they’ve considered emigrating amid concerns about growing antisemitism
(JTA) — In a survey among 1,054 Jewish community leaders in Europe, 23% said they were considering emigrating. The survey, which the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, or JDC, published Thursday, did not ask respondents their reasons for contemplating emigrating. Only 3% said they had made active preparations and 67% said they had not considered…
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Fast Forward Following outcry, Lithuanian city halts construction of bike path near Holocaust mass grave
(JTA) — Municipal authorities in Lithuania have halted the construction of bicycle path near a mass grave of Jewish Holocaust victims, according to a rabbi who raised alarm about the project. Rabbi Kalev Krelin, a former chief rabbi of Lithuania, posted on Facebook about a bike path that was being built in Šiauliai, a city…
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