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February 2nd, 2016 
Awake Goy (JTA) — Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, the richest Jewish person in the world, has become the sixth-wealthiest overall.
Zuckerberg, 31, has a net worth of $47.5 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, slightly ahead of the Koch brothers’ fortune valued at $45.9 billion, Bloomberg Business reported last week.
He moved past the Kochs when his fortune rose $6 billion in trading Thursday, when Facebook reported record earnings. In October, Zuckerberg was listed No. 8 on the Bloomberg index.
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s military has imposed a partial closure on Ramallah, the West Bank city that is the seat of government for the Palestinian Authority.
The closure, which was imposed late Sunday night, is the first for a Palestinian city since the start of the current wave of Palestinian terror against Jewish-Israelis in October. It came hours after a Palestinian Authority police officer from Ramallah shot and wounded three Israeli soldiers at a security checkpoint near the city.
Under the edict, non-residents are banned from entering the city and residents are restricted from leaving.
The closure also was imposed due to security warnings for the area, Haaretz reported, citing an unnamed Israel Defense Forces official.
Published time: 1 Feb, 2016 22:44
Members of the Muslim community pray in a mosque in Marseille during an open day weekend for mosques in France © Jean-Paul Pelissier / Reuters
A survey gauging racist sentiment polled the French on how they would react if their children married Muslims and whether they think that there are too many Jews in France. The results have turned out to be shocking.
The provocative poll published in the French weekly Le Journal Du Dimanche (JDD) was commissioned by the Jewish Foundation of France. It was conducted over the course of 18 months by Ipsos which asked 1,000 random people questions. Furthermore the pollsters sourced additional respondents from the Jewish and Muslim communities to allegedly level the bias. Many regarded the questions to be inflammatory.
One of the questions to respondents was about their likely reaction should their children marry a person from another ethnic group or a person of the same sex. More than half of French respondents said they would not like it if their daughter-in law or son-in-law were Muslim.
The respondents were also asked whether they personally have “had issues” with people from ethnic and religious minorities. Twenty-nine percent said they had been harassed by migrants from the Maghreb countries, a slightly smaller percentage said the same about Roma and Muslims.
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Published time: 1 Feb, 2016 08:26
Police officers and opposition supporters are seen on Maidan Nezalezhnosti square in Kiev, where clashes began between protesters and the police, February 19, 2014. © Andrey Stenin / Sputnik Ukraine’s authorities have urged a French broadcaster to take a documentary titled “Masks of Revolution” off the air. They claim the movie misrepresents Maidan events, and have a list of their own suggestions for what needs to be shown.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry in their facebook statement went as far as to urge Canal+ TV to overhaul their editorial policy.
The film is scheduled to be shown on February 1.
“Paul Moreira strips the masks of modern-day Ukraine and carries out an investigation on the firing line of the new ‘Cold War’ between the East and the West,” the synopsis posted on the Canal+ website reads.
The film is a special investigation carried out by Paul Moreira, which covers the events in Ukraine over 2014: the far-right radical groups allegedly backed by the US, as well as the deadly violence in the southern Ukrainian town of Odessa.
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Tehran gains accesses to frozen assets that have been piling up in banks in China, India, Japan, South Korea and Turkey since sanctions were tightened in 2012.
TEHRAN – Iran said Monday it now has access to more than $100 billion worth of frozen overseas assets following the implementation of a landmark nuclear deal with world powers.
Government spokesman Mohammad Bagher Nobakht said much of the money had been piling up in banks in China, India, Japan, South Korea and Turkey since international sanctions were tightened in 2012 over Tehran’s nuclear program.
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PORTO, Portugal (JTA) — Some 300 Jews from eight countries, including the chief rabbi of Turkey, celebrated the introduction of a new Torah scroll into Portugual’s Kadoorie Synagogue.
The celebration on Jan. 29 in Porto, Portugal’s second largest city, in what is said to be the largest synagogue in the Iberian Peninsula, was the main event of a weekend organized by the local Jewish community, which has approximately 100 members. Many guests were applicants or prospective applicants for Portuguese citizenship under the country’s 2015 law of return for the descendants of Sephardic Jews.
“At a time of rising anti-Semitism across Europe, I want you to know that you are always welcome here, a place whose identity your communities have shaped forever,” Porto Mayor Rui Moreira said at the Kadoorie Synagogue while wearing a kippah. Moreira, a descendent of Ashkenazi Jews who arrived in Portugal in the 19th century, also said: “There is no anti-Semitism in Porto, and I know this because I was elected mayor.”
He said the citizenship was a “necessary act of atonement” by Portugal for its part in the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Jews in the 16th century as part of the Portuguese Inquisition, which began shortly after the inquisition in Spain. Spain has a similar but stricter law of return for Sephardic Jews. The first recipients of Spanish nationality under that law received it last week.
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Yariv Levin of the Likud party made the comment Sunday during a discussion of the agreement approved by the Cabinet creating a dedicated space for egalitarian prayer at the Western Wall.
“Reform Jews in the United States are a dying world,” said Levin, who is a secular Jew. “Assimilation is taking place on a vast scale. They are not even tracking this properly in their communities. It is evidenced by the fact that a man who calls himself a Reform rabbi stands there with a priest and officiates at the wedding of the daughter of Hillary Clinton and no one condemns it, thereby legitimizing it.”
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — American singer and actress Jennifer Lopez reportedly will perform in Israel for the first time.
Lopez agreed to hold a concert this summer in Hayarkon Park in Tel Aviv, the Ynet news website reported Monday.
She is among several high-profile artists and bands who are scheduled to perform in Israel this summer. They include Elton John, Deep Purple, Megadeath and Julio Iglesias.
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Chalk it up to “Hollywood values.”
The entertainment industry famously, or infamously, depending on your perspective, leans Democratic. And Jewish celebrities are no exception.
With the 2016 Iowa caucuses kicking off the presidential primary season on Monday, pollsters have Democratic candidates Hillary Rodham Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., neck and neck in the state.
The all-important race for Jewish celebrity endorsements is close too. Here’s a breakdown of where things stand.
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MANCHESTER, N.H. (JTA) – Though home to just one-third of 1 percent of all Americans, New Hampshire long has played an outsized role in the U.S. presidential nominating process.
Just who are the Jews of the Granite State? Here a few highlights.
About 10,000 Jews live among white, mostly old New Hampshirites.
A few characteristics distinguish the 1.3 million residents of New Hampshire. They’re old, with a median age of 41.9 (third-oldest in the country), and 94 percent white (fourth-whitest state in America). Fewer than 20,000 of the state’s residents are black.
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