Cnaan Liphshiz
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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Fast Forward Impeachment trial to pause for Shabbat after Trump’s lawyer requests accommodation
(JTA) — The impeachment trial for Donald Trump will pause for Shabbat, after the former president’s lawyer requested accommodations for his religious observance. David Schoen, the Orthodox attorney leading Trump’s defense, asked for the trial to be paused for the duration of the Jewish day of rest, which begins this coming Friday in Washington, D.C.,…
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Fast Forward Swastikas painted in front of California campus’ Jewish fraternity house
(JTA) — Police in California are investigating after a Jewish fraternity at the California Polytechnic State University reported finding swastikas and other anti-Semitic graffiti painted outside its house. The symbols were scrawled in front of the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity house in California’s San Luis Obispo County on Friday night, campus authorities said. “We awoke…
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Fast Forward Jewish baker iced out of Dutch Muslim political party — over her X-rated cakes
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Putting a small-town Jewish baker on the ticket was supposed to change the public image of the Netherlands’ Party of Unity — but not like this. Run by Islamic fundamentalists, the tiny party has had little impact at the ballot box since it launched in 2014. But propelled by the inflammatory comments…
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Fast Forward Russian university fires lecturer who denied Holocaust
(JTA) — A prestigious university in Moscow said it would fire a professor who denied the Holocaust on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Vladimir Matveyev, a lecturer on international relations, told teachers from the St. Petersburg region on Thursday that “no gas chambers were found to kill people in concentration camps,” “the gas was used by…
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Fast Forward In Belarus, Marc Chagall’s synagogue is for sale to anyone willing to restore it
(JTA) — The remains of the synagogue in Belarus where the family of painter Marc Chagall used to pray are up for sale to anyone willing to restore the building. The municipality of Vitebsk is seeking a nominal fee only for the dilapidated exterior walls of what used to be the Great Lubavitch Synagogue, according…
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Fast Forward In first, Luxembourg offers $1.2 million in symbolic compensation to noncitizen Holocaust victims
(JTA) — The government of Luxembourg, which for decades has avoided paying Holocaust restitution to most of its survivors for property they lost, has agreed to pay $1.2 million in symbolic compensation. On Wednesday, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the grand duchy signed an agreement with the World Jewish Restitution Organization and the local Jewish community…
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Fast Forward Antwerp mayor says haredi Orthodox ignoring COVID measures has triggered antisemitism — and it could get worse
(JTA) — The mayor of Antwerp, a city in Belgium where about 15,000 haredi Orthodox Jews live, warned that their failure to comply with COVID-19 measures has triggered anti-Semitism — and it could turn into a wave. “In the Jewish community, not everyone realizes this, they have their own logic, but the backlash of public…
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Fast Forward For centuries, Jews thrived in Khujand, Tajikistan. Now the city’s last Jew has died.
(JTA) — For many centuries, the city of Khujand in Tajikistan, a mountainous Muslim-majority country, had been a center of Jewish presence in Central Asia. But the once-rich communal life of Bukharan Jews in Khujand ended last week with the passing of the city’s last remaining Jewish person: Jura Abaev died Jan. 15 at the…
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