Cnaan Liphshiz
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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Fast Forward Belgian state TV apologizes for video parodying ‘Schindler’s List’
The show segment dubbed alternative dialogue about an apparent cookie shortage over some of the film’s footage.
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Fast Forward Polish-Jewish journalist quits newspaper after it demands different description of ‘neo-Nazi’ Ukrainian militia
(JTA) — One of Poland’s most prominent journalists, Konstanty Gebert, said he is quitting what many regard as the country’s newspaper of record after it demanded that he describe Ukraine’s controversial Azov Battalion as “far-right” instead of “neo Nazi.” The Azov militia, a small subset of a few thousand soldiers within Ukraine’s military, often sport…
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Fast Forward Despite danger and disruption, Ukrainian Jews prepare to celebrate Passover in public seders
(JTA) — Between air-raid sirens in Odessa, Svetlana Niselevitch, an 84-year-old Ukrainian-Jewish Holocaust survivor, has been preparing to join a Passover seder for the first time in her life. “We didn’t observe Jewish traditions in my family,” Niselevitch, a poet who was born in Kharkiv, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. But she said Russia’s invasion…
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News Refugees with Jacuzzis: the surreal life of 200 Jews at a 4-star resort In wartime Ukraine
IRSHAVA, Ukraine (JTA) — Like dozens of displaced persons camps that now dot Eastern Europe, the one in this Ukrainian town near the Hungarian border has inhabitants whose lives were turned upside down by Russia’s war. But the refugee camp at Irshava is different. For one thing, it’s equipped with a kosher kitchen and accommodates…
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Fast Forward European Jewish Congress head Moshe Kantor resigns following UK sanctions
(JTA) — Moshe Kantor, the Russia-born president of the European Jewish Congress, resigned from the Jewish group after the United Kingdom imposed sanctions on him because of his alleged involvement with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime. Kantor, a dual citizen of Russia and Britain who has been living in London for over decade, resigned on…
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Fast Forward Meet Sarah Knafo, the 28-year-old French Jew advising, and dating, right-wing Jewish presidential candidate Éric Zemmour
(JTA) — The fact that Sarah Knafo rose quickly to the top echelon of French politics came as no surprise to people who know this 28-year-old Jewish woman from the Paris region. A studious, charming and well connected law graduate of the prestigious Sciences Po university who works as a public funds auditor, Knafo was…
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Fast Forward A French Jewish man was killed by a tram. His family believes an antisemitic attack might have been the cause.
(JTA) — A young Jewish man was hit and killed by a tram car in a suburb of Paris in February, and his family believes his death may have followed an antisemitic attack. The family of Jérémie Cohen, who was 31 when he died Feb. 16 in the northeastern suburb of Bobigny, is looking for…
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Fast Forward Hungary’s Orban wins 4th term, declaring victory over enemies including Soros and Zelenskyy
BUDAPEST, Hungary (JTA) – Hungary’s nationalist prime minister, Viktor Orban, has won a fourth term in office, dashing the hopes of a broad opposition alliance of unseating him after 12 years in power. In his victory speech Sunday night, Orban said he had prevailed against a slew of perceived enemies: “the left at home, the…
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