Becoming an EU citizen: Boarding a sinking ship?
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAMay 04, 2017
AMSTERDAM — Considering Marine Le Pen’s historical gains in the French presidential elections, the Dutch far-right’s rise and the assault on ritual slaughter in...
In Moldova, a little JDS aid makes the difference between survival and poverty
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAMar 16, 2017
BERSHAD, Ukraine — Olga Levus didn’t set out to revolutionize the Jewish community of her native Moldova when she opened its first-ever support group for single...
Gonzo filmmaker behind Trump’s Sweden reference
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAFeb 23, 2017
NEW YORK — Pressed to explain his claim that something terrible had happened in Sweden last week, President Donald Trump went back to the reporting of Ami Horowitz, a...
Expulsion of rabbi worries Russian Jews
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAFeb 16, 2017
MOSCOW — Three years ago, Rabbi Ari Edelkopf and his wife, Chana, worked around the clock for weeks to show off their community and city to the many foreigners in...
French Jews drawn to Macron
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAFeb 09, 2017
PARIS — With old favorites knocked out of France’s presidential race and the far-right National Front party making worrisome gains, many Jews are joining fellow...
‘The Tehran Children’ — what they teach today
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAJan 26, 2017
SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan — After starving for months in Siberia, five-year-old Natan Rom thought he was in paradise when he arrived in this colorful trading hub in...
Great Britain’s stunning about-face
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAJan 19, 2017
LONDON — Two days after delegates from more than 70 nations attended the Paris summit on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it is clear that Israeli Prime Minister...
Turkish Jews, scared, look to aliyah
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTANov 24, 2016
ISTANBUL — At a chic café overlooking the Bosphorus, two Turkish Jewish women are discussing their plans to emigrate when the call to Friday prayers blasts from the...
Clean up of Jewish cemetery — on All Souls’ Day
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTANov 10, 2016
VIENNA — As she prepared to take inventory of one of Vienna’s oldest and least-known Jewish cemeteries, historian Tina Walzer anticipated many genealogical twists...
Like Anne Frank, but happier end
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAOct 20, 2016
AMSTERDAM — A Holocaust survivor dubbed “Rotterdam’s Anne Frank” in her native Netherlands published her wartime diary, which she wrote while hiding in the...
