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NEWSBRIEFS JFNA President Says No Known Issues with
Jewish Voters or Polling Places
NO PROBLEMS OCCURRED for Jewish voters on Election
Day, according to Jewish Federations of North America President
and CEO Eric Fingerhut, JNS.org reported.

“We are always concerned about extremists who would take
advantage of these kinds of transition and thanks to the Secure
Community Network and our own crisis expertise, we have
helped our communities across the country remain prepared,
but we have not heard of any specific threats,” he said.

Prior the election, SCN sent information to Jewish organiza-
tions and communities to prepare for possible issues, although
no specific threats were cited.

Greek Newspaper Publisher Convicted, Fined for
Defaming Jewish Community Leader
A Greek court convicted a newspaper publisher of defamation
and hate speech because of an op-ed calling a Jewish community
leader a thief, JTA reported.

The Athens Court of Justice of First Instance imposed a $2,200
fine on Stefanos Chios, the publisher of the Makeleio newspaper,
according to the central Board of Jewish Communities in
Greece. “A crude Jew who runs a loan-shark firm has bought the
debts of poor Greeks. The President of the Jewish Community
who pretends to be our friend, is stealing our money through
the back door,” Chios wrote in 2017 about Minos Moissis, a prior
president of the Jewish Community of Athens.

Along with defaming Moissis, the paper “contributed deliber-
ately to the reproduction of a rhetoric of hate against the Greek
Jewry,” the court said.

Moissis filed a lawsuit against Chios in 2017. He is
the co-founder of the SYNERGON Partners banking and
finance firm.

Florida Principal Who Denied Holocaust Fired Again
Weeks after the Palm Beach County School Board voted to rehire
a principal who told a parent he “can’t say the Holocaust is a
factual, historical event,” the board reversed its decision, JTA
reported. The board fired William Latson in 2019, after comments from
the previous year came to light.

In turn, Latson sued, claiming wrongful termination. A judge
then concluded that Latson should have been reprimanded
instead of fired.

The school board voted to rehire Latson instead of facing a
potentially lengthy and expensive legal battle.

But the board voted unanimously on Nov. 2 to fire Latson again,
with members concluding that the district’s values were more
important than the risk of litigation, the Palm Beach Post reported.

Evangelicals Go to Court Over Fate of $3.3M Raised
for Holocaust Survivors in Israel
Two prominent evangelical figures are in a legal battle over $3.3
million raised for Holocaust survivors, JTA reported.

Mike Evans, a Christian Zionist from Texas, sued Georgia
pastor Jentezen Franklin in regards to a 2017 fundraising
campaign they conducted to help Holocaust survivors in Israel.

In a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern
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