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Cnaan Liphshiz JTA
October 2, 2019, 12:09 pm
Transnistria is a tiny, poor state in Eastern Europe.
The few Jews left there eye an escape.
By Cnaan Liphshiz JTA
October 2, 2019, 11:45 am
Russian Jews increasingly moving to Israel
Putin cracking down on democracy
By Cnaan Liphshiz JTA
Leftist La France Insoumise (LFI) party MP Clementine Autain takes part in a demonstration on April 19, 2018 in Paris, as part of a multi branch day of protest called by French unions CGT and Solidaires against French President's reforms amid a rail strike and spreading student sit-ins in Paris, France on April 19, 2018. (Photo by Michel Stoupak/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
August 21, 2019, 12:17 pm
Israel has been barring lawmakers of friendly nations for years
This is the first time Israel has barred US lawmakers
By Cnaan Liphshiz JTA
July 24, 2019, 11:05 am
A Jewish family sold this Kandinsky painting to survive the Nazis.
Amsterdam is keeping it anyway.
By Cnaan Liphshiz JTA
LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 04: Labour MP Chris Williamson attends a demonstration outside a meeting of the National Executive of Britains Labour Party on September 4, 2018 in London, England. Labour's NEC meet today to vote on whether to adopt the full International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-semitism. (Photo by Jack Taylor/Getty Images)
July 2, 2019, 2:52 pm
Labour readmits key Corbyn ally
who said British party is too apologetic on anti-Semitism
By Cnaan Liphshiz JTA
Photo by Cnaan Liphsiz
June 12, 2019, 1:11 pm
A famed French-Jewish philosopher is afraid to leave his home
Jewish supporter of Israel harassed
By Cnaan Liphshiz JTA
French soldiers patrol in front of a synagogue outside Paris as part of France’s national security alert system in 2015.(Photo by Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP/Getty Images)
November 13, 2018, 10:38 am
In Europe, synagogues are protected like fortresses. That took decades
Will security at American Jewish institutions now mirror that of Europe, with its police protection, armed guards, panic rooms and sterile zones at synagogues?
By Cnaan Liphshiz JTA
Bent Lewinsky waits to celebrate Danish Jewry’s 1943 rescue outside the Great Synagogue of Copenhagen. (Photo by Cnaan Liphshiz)
October 26, 2018, 2:35 pm
In Denmark, the world’s only happy Holocaust commemoration event
Grassroots operation to rescue Jews during the Holocaust involved thousands of people in Denmark
By Cnaan Liphshiz JTA
Rezi Friedman campaigns at a cafe in Antwerp, Belgium. (Photo by Cnaan Liphshiz)
October 18, 2018, 3:30 pm
An Orthodox rabbi’s daughter wants to make political history in Belgium
Rezi Friedman seeks to break barrier and become the first haredi woman on the City Council in Antwerp.
By Cnaan Liphshiz JTA
Denny Taylor founded the group Labour Against Anti-Semitism at 18. (Photo courtesy of Denny Taylor)
October 12, 2018, 12:51 pm
These non-Jews are fighting Labour anti-Semitism from the inside
Meteorology student at the University of Reading who describes himself as “just a kid with a laptop" is British Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn's most effective critic.
By Cnaan Liphshiz JTA
Silvia Foti while visiting a friend in Vilnius, Lithuania in 2013. (Photo by Ina Budryte)
October 12, 2018, 12:40 pm
Lithuania pays attention to Chicago teacher’s Nazi collaborator grandfather
Silvia Foti is fulfilling an old promise that’s become her life’s work: to write a biography of her late grandfather
By Cnaan Liphshiz JTA
Photographers capture a ceremony at a Jewish cemetery in Frampol, Poland. (Photo by ESJF)
October 5, 2018, 10:20 am
Nazis’ aerial photography is helping map and preserve Jewish cemeteries
Jewish cemeteries today are being degraded at an alarming rate from unregulated construction and vandalism. One group has a low-cost plan to save as many as they can.
By Cnaan Liphshiz JTA
Yoram Sztykgold examines the unpublished registry from 1939 that helped him locate his family’s assets at a military library in Warsaw, Sept. 4, 2018. (Photo by Cnaan Liphshiz)
September 21, 2018, 9:08 am
1939 phone book could help unlock some Polish Holocaust restitution payments
In Poland, dramatic changes in landscape have made it difficult for people to obtain restitution. A new database, based on an old phonebook, could help some identify former assets.
By Cnaan Liphshiz JTA
Jeremy Corbyn addresses a crowd in London’s Trafalgar Square in July. (Photo by Niklas Hallen/AFP/Getty Images)
September 7, 2018, 4:47 pm
Jeremy Corbyn’s supporters see a conspiracy against him
As with other anti-establishment politicians, scrutiny and rebukes against Corbyn are paradoxically helping to galvanize support for the embattled Labour leader.
By Cnaan Liphshiz JTA
Two Jews walking down a street in Antwerp, Belgium, August 22, 2018. (Photo by Cnaan Liphshiz)
September 7, 2018, 4:44 pm
In this Belgian city, a heatwave puts cherished Rosh Hashanah tradition on ice
In Antwerp, tashlich, the symbolic casting of breadcrumbs onto a body of water, is a community activity. But this year, heat and construction left the city's main pond dry.
By Cnaan Liphshiz JTA
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