Cnaan Liphshiz
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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Fast Forward Fashion giant Zara condemns Jewish designer for lashing out at Palestinian model who called Israel ‘evil’
(JTA) — The fashion retailer Zara condemned one of its Jewish designers for telling a Palestinian model that “maybe if your people were educated then they wouldn’t blow up the hospitals.” Zara on Tuesday made the statement about Vanessa Perilman, the head designer for Zara’s women’s department, who wrote the comment on Instagram to model…
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Fast Forward London Orthodox school drops teacher because she was ordained as a rabbi
(JTA) — An Orthodox Jewish school in London ended its relationship with an educator following her rabbinical ordination. The London School of Jewish Studies revoked the honorary title of research fellow from Rabbi Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz in connection with her attending and graduating from the Yeshivat Maharat Orthodox egalitarian rabbinical school in New York, an employee…
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News Ukraine honors 2 tiny sects with Jewish roots as ‘indigenous peoples,’ and Putin is furious
(JTA) — Two tiny sects with Jewish roots have been dragged into yet another diplomatic fight between Russia and Ukraine. The few hundred Karaites who remain in Ukraine today are remnants of a sect that broke off from mainstream Judaism in eighth-century Iraq. They were was documented in Crimea in the 13th century and nearly…
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Fast Forward An EU ruling on kosher slaughter tells rabbis how to go about their business
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Jewish leaders in Europe say the European Union is not only banning some methods of kosher and halal slaughter, but telling Jews and Muslims how to practice their religions. That’s according to many who have read a recent ruling by the EU’s highest court. It upholds bans in Belgium on producing kosher and…
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Fast Forward German army to get first rabbi chaplain since the Holocaust
(JTA) — The thought of leaving his native Hungary to study Judaism in Berlin “seemed totally crazy” to Zsolt Balla when he first considered it. “I mean, Germany of all places?” he said. But a decade in the country that engineered the destruction of European Jewry has changed him. Balla became one of the first…
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Fast Forward Krakow city official says good-luck figurines of Jews are ‘antisemitic’ and should not be sold
(JTA) — A spokesperson for the city of Krakow, Poland, condemned as antisemitic the figurines of Orthodox Jews that are on sale as good luck charms there. “This figurine is anti-Semitic and it’s time for us to realize it,” Robert Piaskowski, the city’s alderman for cultural affairs, was quoted as saying during a meeting Thursday…
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Fast Forward Journalist who vandalized Warsaw Ghetto wall is teaching British teachers about antisemitism
(JTA) — A journalist who wrote “Free Gaza and Palestine” on the walls of the former Warsaw Ghetto has been tasked with teaching members of a British teachers union about antisemitism. Ewa Jasiewicz, who spray-painted the slogan in Poland in 2010, has given three sessions titled “Understanding Antisemitism,” the Jewish News of London reported Tuesday….
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Fast Forward Brazilian parents protest teaching of new Anne Frank diary containing sexual descriptions
(JTA) — Parents in Brazil are protesting a school’s teaching of Anne Frank’s famous Holocaust diary, citing what they say is sexual content inappropriate for seventh graders. In a letter sent to the management of the Sao Paulo branch of Escola Mobile, a network of private schools, more than 90 parents complained about Frank’s descriptions…
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