Cnaan Liphshiz
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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Fast Forward How Matzo Became A Household Item For Dutch Christians
([JTA](http://www.jta.org ” “JTA”)) — For most matzah bakeries, Passover is their lifeline and only claim to financial viability. After the weeklong holiday, during which Jews are commanded to consume matzah to commemorate their ancestors’ hurried flight out of Egypt, demand for the famously tasteless cracker drops sharply. Except, that is, in the Netherlands. A centuries-old…
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Fast Forward Anti-BDS Activist To Be Tried For ‘Intimidation’ In Spain
(JTA) — A Spanish judge granted an anti-Israel group’s motion to initiate a trial for alleged incitement to hatred and intimidation against the leader of a group that fights boycotts of the Jewish state. The Committee for Solidarity with the Arab Cause, which receives funding from several municipalities in Spain, filed the criminal lawsuit against…
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News Explore All 3,318 Synagogues In Europe With This Amazing Online Tool
A new British organization has created an incredible tool that should fascinate anyone remotely interested in European Jewish culture: an interactive map of all of the continent’s 3,318 synagogues. The map catalogues the European synagogue buildings that are still standing — but less than a quarter of those are not actually used as synagogues today….
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Fast Forward Hundreds Join Nazi War Veterans In Latvia March
RIGA, Latvia (JTA) — Police arrested a man for displaying a poster of soldiers killing Jews at the annual march by local veterans of two SS divisions that made up the Latvian Legion during World War II. The man was arrested Friday morning on the margins of the annual march of the Remembrance Day of…
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Fast Forward Swedish Politicians Call To End All Religious Schools
(JTA) — Citing Muslim extremism, two Cabinet ministers in Sweden called for closing all faith schools in the country. At a news conference Tuesday, Secondary Education Minister Anna Ekström and Public Administration Minister Ardalan Shekarabi said they supported banning faith schools. “The important thing for us is that in school there are no confessional elements,”…
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Fast Forward Why Jews In Russia Say Putin’s Comment Wasn’t Anti-Semitic
(JTA) — When Boruch Gorin, a well-known rabbi in Moscow, traveled for the first time from Russia to the United States, a U.S. Customs officer asked him whether he was Russian. “I said, ‘No, I’m not Russian — I’m Jewish,’” Gorin recalled Monday, 27 years after the exchange at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New…
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Fast Forward Why More Women Run Jewish Groups In The Former Soviet Union
(JTA) — For a man to gallantly open a door for a female stranger is neither common nor universally appreciated in Ukraine, where gender salary gaps used to be illegal and female tank crews fought the Nazis. Throughout the former Soviet Union, the communist revolution instituted far-reaching gender equality at a time when women in…
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Fast Forward Iran Tripled Its Missile Production, Senior Commander Says
(JTA) — Iran has tripled its production of missiles, a senior Revolutionary Guards commander said Wednesday, according to the Fars news service. The commander did not explain during what time period the production increase had taken place, Reuters reported. “In the past we had to do a lot of explaining to various bodies for our…
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