Cnaan Liphshiz
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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Breaking News Socialite Shelli Azoff Asks Celebs Not To Mention Donald Trump at Women-Only Bash
— Socialite Shelli Azoff asked guests at her annual women-only glamour gala in Los Angeles to refrain from making any mention of Donald Trump. Azoff, the wife of music mogul Irving Azoff, who is Jewish, presented the house rule at the 17th annual “Just Us Girls” holiday bash on Wednesday at the Forum in LA, where…
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Breaking News Dovish Groups Worried Over David Friedman as Trump’s Israel Ambassador — Hawks Cheer
— Dovish Jewish groups spoke of their concern over Donald Trump’s nomination of David Friedman as U.S. ambassador to Israel, but their more hawkish counterparts celebrated it as momentous. Friedman, a bankruptcy lawyer who has for years worked for the Republican president elect and his real estate development business, has expressed hardline right-wing views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,…
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Breaking News Norway Town Will Boycott West Bank Settlement Products
– The city council of Tromso in Norway adopted a resolution calling on its residents to boycott products made in the West Bank, eastern Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. The resolution was adopted Wednesday, according to the municipality’s website. Seventeen members voted against the resolution, which stated that “the municipal council encourages Tromso Municipality’s residents to boycott…
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Breaking News Bullet Holes Found at French Synagogue
– Police in western France found bullet holes in the mailbox of a synagogue in Western France. Police, who are investigating the incident as a possible hate crime, were twice called over the past three weeks to the synagogue of Le Havre, the news website Paris-Normandie reported. The first set of bullet holes was discovered in the…
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Breaking News Vincent Peillon, Leftist With Jewish Roots, Will Run for French President
— Vincent Peillon, a former education minister of France, announced his candidacy to lead France’s Socialist Party, where he is already receiving key endorsements from the party’s left wing. Peillon, a lawmaker in the European Parliament whose mother is Jewish, announced his candidacy Sunday to succeed President Francois Hollande and run as their party’s presidential candidate in…
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Breaking News See Holocaust Righteous Gentiles in Posthumous 3D at New Polish Museum
— Polish and Israeli officials announced the future opening of an innovative museum honoring non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews from the Holocaust. The museum is slated to open in 2018 in the center of Warsaw under the auspices of the TSKZ cultural association of Polish Jewry and the commemoration group From the…
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Breaking News Dutch Politician’s Conviction for Racist Incitement Will ‘Help Him’
AMSTERDAM — The incitement conviction of Geert Wilders, a Dutch far-right politician who vowed to ensure his country has fewer Moroccans, will strengthen him electorally, the former leader of Dutch Jewry’s watchdog on racism said. Wilders was convicted on Friday for incitement to discrimination over that 2014 pledge, but the court in Schiphol imposed no…
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Breaking News Is the FBI Stalling on Transferring a Guantanamo Inmate to Israel?
(JTA) — The United States asked Israel to take and prosecute a Kenyan imprisoned at Guantánamo implicated in the 2002 attack on Israelis in Mombasa, Kenya, but the proposed transfer has hit a snag over reported FBI foot dragging. A report on the existence of talks to deliver Mohammed Abdul Malik Bajabu, 43, for trial…
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