Israeli entrant wins despite bias
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAMay 17, 2018
BRUSSELS — Hours before the Eurovision song contest’s kickoff, Rafi Kishon posted on Facebook a sobering message and a picture of himself wearing a head of lettuce...
Muslim majority at UK Jewish school
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAMay 03, 2018
BIRMINGHAM, UK — Like hundreds of Jewish institutions in the Diaspora, the King David School celebrated Israel’s 70th Independence Day with blue-and-white flags and...
In Latvia, backlash against annual Nazi SS veteran march
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAApr 26, 2018
RIGA, Latvia — Each year on March 16, a macabre event unfolds on the square around this capital city’s most famous monument. Known as the Memorial for Latvian...
Some French shuls dwindle; some surge
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAApr 12, 2018
NEUILLY-SUR-SEINE, France — If French Jewry is facing an existential threat because of anti-Semitic violence, then little of the drama is on display in this affluent...
In latest election, Hungary veers far right
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAApr 12, 2018
BUDAPEST — The extremist Jobbik party may have come up short in Hungary’s Sunday, April 8, election, but that doesn’t mean the country’s far right isn’t...
Murder of Holocaust survivor galvanizes France
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAApr 05, 2018
PARIS — After French authorities swiftly filed hate-crime charges against the Muslim suspect in the murder of a Holocaust survivor in Paris, for many Jews at a vigil...
In Holland, they love matzah all year long
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAMar 29, 2018
PASSOVER EDITION 5778 SECTION C PAGE 10 ENSCHEDE, Netherlands — For most matzah bakeries, Passover is their lifeline and only claim to financial viability. After the...
Was Putin’s invocation of ‘Jew’ lost in translation?
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAMar 15, 2018
MOSCOW — When Boruch Gorin, a rabbi in Moscow, traveled for the first time from Russia to the US, a US Customs officer asked him whether he was Russian. “I
What will happen to Poland trips?
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAMar 08, 2018
NEW YORK — Three years ago, Shaul de Malach had no problem joining fellow educators from his country on a trip to former Nazi death camps in Poland. Like tens...
Jewish Iranian refugee awaits her fate in the Netherlands
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAMar 01, 2018
UTRECHT, Netherlands — To the dozens of revelers of this city’s main Purim party, a Jewish grandmother who cooks the event’s annual Persia-themed holiday feast is...
