Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA
Chabad meets needs of growing community in sub-Saharan Africa
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTASep 15, 2016
NAIROBI — Rabbi Shmuel Notik was on his way to blow the shofar on a Friday evening in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi when six men armed with knives intercepted...
First-person account: Being Jewish in Belgium
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTASep 01, 2016
AMSTERDAM — I used to think I had a pretty good understanding of what it means to be Jewish in Belgium. A longtime observer of that polarized binational country, whose...
Mixed feelings on Eckstein’s International Fellowship of Christians and Jews
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAAug 11, 2016
PARIS — The summer drizzle that soaked the French capital did little to dampen Yechiel Eckstein’s enthusiasm as he arrived recently with his wife Joelle at the...
Terror no surprise to Nice’s Jews
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAJul 28, 2016
AMSTERDAM — To the millions of tourists who visit Nice annually, the city in southeast France is an ultimate holiday destination that offers inviting beaches and...
In Russia, Pokémon Go leads people to shul
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAJul 21, 2016
MOSCOW — As the Pokémon Go phenomenon grows, some institutions connected to European Jewry’s darkest hour have taken precautions against it. The Auschwitz-Birkenau...
Seventy-five years since massacre at Jedwabne
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAJul 14, 2016
JEDWABNE, Poland — As German army troops invaded eastern Poland, Ichak Lewin’s family fled their town of Wizna. On July 10, 1941, the Lewins approached the nearby...
Falafel war in Paris
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAJun 23, 2016
PARIS — On a crowded sidewalk in the French capital, Yomi Peretz exchanges jokes and backslaps with customers waiting in a long line in the rain to enter his falafel...
Corbyn’s bluster infuriates Jews
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAApr 21, 2016
LONDON — Even before he was kicked out of Britain’s Labour Party for saying that Israel runs the Islamic State, Bob Campbell was a marginal figure within...
My quesy night at a ‘Jewish’ eatery
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAApr 07, 2016
LVIV, Ukraine — There’s a Jewish-themed restaurant attached to the ruins of the 16th-century Golden Rose Synagogue here. It first caught my eye last month when I was...
More fallout from Brussels
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAMar 31, 2016
ANTWERP The hundreds of rifle-toting police and soldiers who patrol Isaac Michaelis neighborhood have done little to improve his sense of safety. When the right...