Belgium freezes aid for West Bank school
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAOct 19, 2017
BRUSSELS — Belgium said it will freeze funding for the construction of two Palestinian schools after a West Bank school the nation helped fund renamed the institution...
Can cyber-tech solve Holocaust mysteries?
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAOct 12, 2017
AMSTERDAM — After 70 years of studying the Holocaust, historians still don’t know the exact circumstances of the tragic fate that befell two of the best-known...
Gateshead: From sleepy community to magnet
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAOct 12, 2017
GATESHEAD, England — It’s lunchtime, and as they wait for their sandwiches at a kosher deli, five young haredi Orthodox men have a lively discussion in Yiddish about...
Jews split on Catalan independence
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAOct 05, 2017
BARCELONA — Seeing armed police in riot gear outside a school in Barcelona, the Israeli lawmaker Ksenia Svetlova felt the instincts kick in from her days as a Middle...
Rosh Hashanah in Uman
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTASep 21, 2017
UMAN, Ukraine — By selling coffee to Jewish tourists, 18-year-old Yuri Breskov can earn in a week more than his teachers from high school make annually in this...
In the UK, some Jews still loyal to Labour
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAJun 08, 2017
LONDON — Relations between British Jewry and the country’s Labour Party, which used to be their political home, appear to be at a historic low point. Ahead of the...
Lithuania: One Jew vs. another Jew
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAJun 02, 2017
VILNIUS — Dan Sofer and his wife considered it a great honor when they became the first couple since the Holocaust to be wed in Lithuania by a chief rabbi […]
Manchester Jewry: Tight security measures in place
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAMay 25, 2017
LONDON — Britain’s bloodiest terrorist attack in over a decade occurred Monday, May 22, just two miles from Rabbi Yisroel Cohen’s synagogue. Yet one day after the...
Hungarian Jews split on Soros
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAMay 18, 2017
BUDAPEST — On a recent Sunday, eight far-right activists filmed themselves on what they called a “raid” on the Aurora Jewish community center in Budapest. Sporting...
Jews, Macron, on collision course
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAMay 11, 2017
PARIS — French Jews may have voted en masse for Emmanuel Macron in the final round of France’s presidential elections, but that doesn’t make him their dream...
