Post HyperCacher: French unity overtaken by hate
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAJan 17, 2019
PARIS — Four years ago, a heartbroken Bernard-Henri Levy found some solace in how more than a million Frenchmen marched through this city to protest extremism. The...
Synagogue going inspires dumpster diving
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAJan 10, 2019
AMSTERDAM — I was recently offered a handout while rummaging for food in a heap of trash as my two small children looked on. It happened all because I wanted
Pro-Brexit voters have second thoughts
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTADec 20, 2018
LONDON — Two-and-half years ago, Murray Lee voted in favor of the United Kingdom leaving the EU. A Jewish real-estate agent from northern London, Murray shared the...
Poll: European anti-Semitism growing
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTADec 13, 2018
AMSTERDAM — The last time that a stranger directed an anti-Semitic insult at me, I was carrying supplies for my son’s birthday party. It was on a Sunday afternoon on...
Dutch man wants to sail to Israel in Noah’s Ark
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTANov 29, 2018
KRIMPEN AAN DE IJSSEL, Netherlands — For two years, the world’s only seaworthy life-size replica of Noah’s Ark has been wowing passengers traveling along...
In Europe, Austria leads fight against anti-Semitism
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTANov 29, 2018
VIENNA — Less than one year after the election of Sebastian Kurz as Austria’s leader, he has taken his government to the forefront of the fight against Europe’s...
80 years after Kristallnacht, Kaliningrad synagogue rebuilt
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTANov 15, 2018
KALININGRAD, Russia — Walking to school and back, Michael Wieck twice a day would pass by one of Europe’s largest and most spectacular Jewish places of worship:...
Denmark commemorates 75th anniversary of remarkable rescue
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAOct 18, 2018
COPENHAGEN — Danish Jews celebrated their community’s rescue 75 years ago in a ceremony Oct. 11 at the country’s main synagogue, the packed sanctuary filled with...
Nazi photos help preserve Jewish cemeteries
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAOct 04, 2018
LUBLIN, Poland — When German air force pilots took aerial photographs of western Ukraine in 1941, they did it to help Nazi Germany defeat the Soviet Union in a war...
Birthplace of Chabad (pop. 200) invites pilgrimages
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTASep 20, 2018
LYUBAVICHI, Russia — At the age of 92, Valentina Prilashkevitch and her twin sister, Claudia, need to cautiously negotiate the dirt road leading to their wooden home...
