Cnaan Liphshiz
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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Fast Forward Serbia Blocks Plan To Build Mall On Site Of Former Concentration Camps
(JTA) — Serbia’s parliament will block plans for construction, including of a shopping mall, on former concentration camps, the country’s president said. President Aleksandar Vucic told Efraim Zuroff, the Eastern Europe Director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, on Thursday in Belgrade that a bill that would make the plans impossible would be passed this year,…
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Fast Forward Jeffrey Epstein Criminal Case Closed Due To His Death
(JTA) — A federal judge in New York formally ended the criminal case against Jeffrey Epstein, the Jewish financier who authorities say killed himself while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges. Judge Richard Berman of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York shelved the indictment on Thursday charging Epstein, 66, with sex…
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Fast Forward Germany Eases Citizenship For Families Who Fled Nazis
(JTA) — Germany said it will make naturalization easier for some people, including Jews, who fled the Nazi regime because of persecution. The move Friday is announced in two decrees unveiled by the interior ministry. They affect several hundred applicants who applied for Germany citizenship but had been rejected because they were born to a…
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Fast Forward 2nd Assault This Week Against Orthodox Jewish Man In Crown Heights
(JTA) — For the second time in less than a week, an identifiably Jewish man has been attacked in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn with a stone. Police said a group of men threw a rock at a delivery driver, an Orthodox Jew, as he sat in his truck at the corner of Brooklyn…
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Fast Forward Spanish City Gathers Descendants Of Converso Jews Named After It
(JTA) – In a bid to reconnect with its Jewish history, the city of Marchena in southern Spain organized an international reunion for foreigners named after it. The two-day gathering, that will begin Friday in the city of about 40,000 residents near Sevilla, was organized under the assumption that foreigners whose last names contains the…
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Fast Forward Israel Attacked In Iraq, Citing Threat From Iran, For The First Time Since 1980s
(JTA) — Israel has carried out an airstrike on a weapons depot in Iraq that officials said was being used by Iran to move weapons to Syria, the New York Times reported. The attack, which happened last month and is believed to be the first Israeli bombing in Iraq in nearly four decades, represents an…
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Fast Forward Norway’s Public TV Station Apologizes For ‘Jewish Swine’ Cartoon
(JTA) — Norway’s public broadcaster has apologized for airing a cartoon in which a Scrabble player forms the word “Jewish swine.” NRK initially defended the video, which was pulled offline this month, against allegations of anti-Semitism out of its desire to “defend the freedom of speech,” NRK broadcasting manager Thor Gjermund Eriksen told the Aftenposten…
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Fast Forward Polish Woman Who Saved Jewish Family From Holocaust Dies At 102
(JTA) — Krystyna Danko, one of the oldest and most celebrated non-Jews recognized by Israel for saving Jews from the Holocaust, has died. She was 102. Danko, who became deaf and blind a few years ago, passed away Wednesday in her Warsaw home. She died in her sleep in a hospital bed recently purchased for…
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