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A paralyzed man in Thornhill, Ont. who for has been an active member of the Beth Avraham Yoseph of Toronto Congregation (BAYT) for decades, was recently celebrated with a Torah dedication and procession.
Hard to say what’s going on with Netanyahu’s son, who has been praised by the neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer for posting an anti-Semitic meme on Facebook. Last month, after writing that the the anti-fascist Antifa movement and the Black Lives Matter movement are more dangerous than neo-Nazis, Yair Netanyahu was lauded via tweet by former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke. He has since taken it down.
Netanyahu’s son, nom de Facebook “Yair Hun,” is posting antisemitic memes against George Soros. https://t.co/fY346XiqAQ pic.twitter.com/NlH8hVzidT
— Noga Tarnopolsky (@NTarnopolsky) September 9, 2017
A German court has dropped its case against a 96-year-old former Auschwitz medic due to the latter having dementia. According to JTA, this could have been the last high-profile Nazi trial.
Polish-German documentary The Prince and the Dybbuk, about Moshe Waks, a poor Jewish blacksmith from what’s now Ukraine who went on to become a successful Hollywood producer and director, has won best documentary at the Venice Film Festival.