Cnaan Liphshiz
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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Fast Forward How Manchester Jews Prepared For Attack Like Ariana Grande Concert Bombing
(JTA) — Britain’s bloodiest terrorist attack in over a decade occurred Monday just two miles from Rabbi Yisroel Cohen’s synagogue. Yet one day after the deadly bombing in Manchester, Cohen told JTA he has no intention of changing security arrangements at his congregation. In fact Cohen, a Chabad emissary who works in a Jewish enclave…
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Fast Forward Jews Split Over Hungary’s Government Campaign Against George Soros
(JTA) — On a recent Sunday, eight far-right activists filmed themselves on what they called a “raid” on the Aurora Jewish community center in Budapest. Sporting crewcuts and black clothes, the men affixed posters with a crossed-out picture of the Hungary-born Jewish American billionaire George Soros to the entrance of the building, which along with having…
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Fast Forward Macron And His French Jewish Supporters May Be On A Collision Course
PARIS (JTA) — French Jews may have voted en masse for Emmanuel Macron in the final round of France’s presidential elections, but that doesn’t make him their dream president. Like many other supporters of the 39-year-old former investment banker, who on Sunday became the youngest French president in recent history, Jews voted for Macron mainly to block…
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Fast Forward Jews Hail Macron’s Landslide Win Over Le Pen As ‘Victory Against Hate’
(JTA) — Emmanuel Macron, the centrist candidate in the French presidential elections, beat the far-right candidate Marine Le Pen 65 percent to 34 percent in the final round Sunday, according to exit polls. The result marks both the best electoral result ever obtained by Le Pen’s National Front party — which leaders of French Jewry…
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Fast Forward Monaco Hosts Largest-Ever Jewish Gathering As 1,000 Russians Jet In
(JTA) — The city state of Monaco, which is sandwiched between France and Italy, saw the largest Jewish gathering in its history during a visit to the principality by more than 1,000 Russian Jews. The celebration Thursday, which was hosted by the tiny Jewish community of Monaco, was organized by its president, Aaron Frenkel, and…
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Fast Forward Buoyant Marine Le Pen Blows ‘Globalist’ Dog Whistle As France Campaign Kicks Off
(JTA) — Supporters of Emmanuel Macron were not alone in cheering his victory Sunday in the first round of France’s presidential elections. Far-right candidate Marine Le Pen, who finished second in the voting, saw it as excellent news. The two will face off in the final round next month after the centrist Macron won 23 percent…
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Fast Forward French Jews Worry About Rising Communist Presidential Candidate
(JTA) — Even before the communist candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon emerged as a serious contender for the presidency in France, the elections were shaping up to be a fateful moment for the country’s 500,000 Jews. Many of them are deeply worried about the rise in the polls of Marine Le Pen of the far-right National Front…
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Fast Forward Prince Charles Recalls Grandmother’s Rescue Of Jews From Holocaust
(JTA) — Prince Charles of the United Kingdom spoke with Holocaust survivors in Austria about his grandmother’s role in saving the lives of a Jewish family during the Shoah. Charles and his wife, Camilla, spent the final day of a nine-day tour of Europe in Vienna, meeting British and Austrian survivors of Nazi persecution at the…
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