Cnaan Liphshiz
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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Fast Forward Hungarian Government Denies Cutting Short Anti-Soros ‘Laughing Jew’ Campaign
(JTA) — Hungary’s government denied reports that it prematurely ended its media campaign against billionaire George Soros amid pressure by leaders of Hungarian Jewry and Israel’s Foreign Ministry. The report appeared Wednesday on the news website of the ATV television station, which is highly critical of the policies of Hungary’s right-wing prime minister, Viktor Orban. The decision to take…
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News The Nazis Built A Luxury Camp To Lull Jews — Then Slaughtered Them
(JTA) — WESTERBORK, Netherlands (JTA) — Nothing about the footage that Rudolf Breslauer filmed here on May 30, 1944, suggests that it was taken inside one of Europe’s largest Nazi concentration camps. In the film by Breslauer, a German-Jewish inmate of the Westerbork camp in Holland’s northeast, prisoners are seen playing soccer enthusiastically in team…
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News This 400-Year-Old Jewish Library Survived The Inquisition — And Hitler
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Livraria Ets Haim is the world’s oldest functioning Jewish library. As such, it is no stranger to the prospect of imminent destruction. Founded in 1616 by Jews who fled Catholic persecution in Spain and Portugal, the three-room library is adjacent to Amsterdam’s majestic Portuguese Synagogue in the Dutch capital’s center. The 30,000-volume collection…
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Fast Forward British Jewry Feels Left Behind By Election Turmoil
(JTA) — Nearly 50 years after she left her native South Africa for Britain to escape apartheid, Sharon Klaff again is finding herself unable to imagine a future for her family in her country and society because of racism. And this time, the problem is hitting nearer to home, said Klaff, 69, a yoga teacher and…
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Fast Forward Jared Kushner’s Family Is A Legend In This Belarus Town
NOVOGRUDOK, Belarus (JTA) — People in Jared Kushner’s ancestral town tend to speak very highly of President Donald Trump. That’s generally the norm in the former Soviet Union. After all, Trump’s style goes over well in this part of the world — a survey conducted in November in Russia found that 45 percent of respondents said they…
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Fast Forward 5 Reasons Some British Jews Are Backing Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party
(JTA) — Relations between British Jewry and the country’s Labour Party, which used to be their political home, appear to be at a historic lowpoint. Ahead of the June 8 general elections in the United Kingdom, a Jewish Chronicle poll from last week put support for the center-left party — which has seen repeated scandals involving…
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Fast Forward Israeli Minister, Goldman Sachs CEO Criticize Trump’s Pullout From Paris Accords
(JTA) — Israel’s energy minister and the CEO of Goldman Sachs joined the chorus of critics who condemned President Donald Trump’s decision to exit the Paris climate deal. Minister Yuval Steinitz criticized the move implicitly. “Even if there is a 50-percent chance that climate change and global warming is man-made, we must act to reduce risk,”…
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Fast Forward Bitter Ethnic Struggle For Control Of Lithuania’s Jews
(JTA) — Dan Sofer and his wife considered it a great honor when they became the first couple since the Holocaust to be wed in Lithuania by a chief rabbi of that country. Sofer, a Ukraine-born businessman from Israel, said his wedding in 2004 was a chance to play a small part in the revival of…
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