Cnaan Liphshiz
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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Breaking News French Court: Robbery And Rape Of Jewish Couple Not A Hate Crime
(JTA) — French prosecutors omitted any reference to hate crimes from the indictment of four men suspected of rape and robbery at a suburban Paris home they acknowledged was targeted because it belonged to Jews. The handling judge of inquiry — a magistrate who in France is responsible for conducting the investigative hearing that precedes…
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Fast Forward Poland Sets 6-Month Deadline For Warsaw Restitution Claims
(JTA) — The municipality of Warsaw published a list of 48 buildings claimed in now-dormant restitution suits, opening a six-month window for new claims under recent legislation. If no action is taken on the property before the deadline, it will be transferred permanently to the city, the World Jewish Restitution Organization, or WJRO, wrote in a…
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Fast Forward Jonathan Safran Foer Says Israeli Friends Want To Flee
(JTA) — Jewish-American novelist Jonathan Safran Foer said that his Israeli friends no longer wish to raise their children in a country which is encouraging boycotts against it by excluding itself from the Western World. Foer, 40, who is among the world’s best-known Jewish writers of fiction, delivered his harsh criticism of Israel under Prime…
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Breaking News Lithuania Reconsiders Plans For Convention Center On Site Of Former Jewish Cemetery
(JTA) — Lithuania’s government is reconsidering plans to build a convention center atop what used to be a Jewish cemetery in Vilnius, rabbis said after meeting with the country’s ambassador to the United States. The seven-member delegation of American haredi Orthodox rabbis and activists met Rolandas Kriščiūnas last week to discuss the controversial plan to build…
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Breaking News Meet The Gonzo Jewish Filmmaker Behind Trump’s Sweden Fake News Claim
(JTA) — Pressed to explain his false claim that something terrible had happened in Sweden last week, President Donald Trump traced the canard back to the reporting of Ami Horowitz, a gonzo Jewish-American filmmaker who spoke about Sweden’s problem with Muslim immigrants on Fox News. On Saturday, during a campaign-style speech in Florida on border security…
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Breaking News Remote Pacific Island Gets Its Own Chabad House
(JTA) — Chabad, the Hasidic movement that operates Jewish centers in more than 90 countries, has set up shop in the Pacific island archipelago of New Caledonia, which has 250,000 residents and 250 Jews. The movement’s emissaries to the island, which is a French territory, are Rabbi Menachem and Bassie Sabbach. The rabbi is a…
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Breaking News January Terrorist Attacks In Israel Bloodiest In Half A Year
(JTA) – The slaying of five Israelis in January by Palestinian terrorists made that month the deadliest since June, according to the Shin Bet security service. Four of the victims were killed by a terrorist in Jerusalem on January 8, when the assailant drove his truck into a crowd of soldiers near the Armon Hanatziv…
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Breaking News Trump Gets Endorsement From Jewish Journalist He Called A Liar
(JTA) — The Jewish reporter whom Donald Trump accused of lying at a press conference where the president was asked about anti-Semitism defended Trump’s actions as owing to a misunderstanding. Jake Turx, a reporter for Ami Magazine, told Fox News he believed Trump acted defensively before hearing out Turx out at the press conference because…
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