Dutch thrift shop returns Holocaust relic
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAMar 03, 2016
AMSTERDAM Two months before they were deported from the Netherlands to Auschwitz, Louis Barzelay and Flora Snatager invited a few guests to their wedding in...
Lithuania finally faces the Holocaust
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAFeb 25, 2016
VILNIUS Lithuanian novelist Ruta Vanagaite was astonished when a reporter for a popular television station demanded to see her birth certificate to ascertain the...
Dark charisma of ‘Son of Saul’
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAFeb 25, 2016
BERLIN When the Hungarian-Jewish poet Geza Rohrig agreed to play the lead role in the Oscar-nominated Holocaust drama Son of Saul, he knew he was taking on a...
Is aliyah a get-out-of-jail-free card?
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAFeb 11, 2016
PARIS An authoritative voice and phone credit was all Gilbert Chikli needed to steal millions of euros from seasoned bankers and businessmen in his native France. One...
Simcha built Kazan, Russia on rock n’ roll
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAFeb 04, 2016
KAZAN, Russia When the six members of the Simcha klezmer band hauled their instruments into a dilapidated rehearsal space, no one suspected they were about to hijack...
Hummus with a side of politics
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTADec 24, 2015
THE HAGUE, Netherlands Like many Israelis in Europe, Yuval Gal and Muawi Shehadeh decided to market their hummus restaurant specifically to health-minded vegetarians....
Is the ban on Spinoza being lifted?
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTADec 17, 2015
AMSTERDAM More than 350 years after this citys Portuguese Jewish community excommunicated Baruch Spinoza and banned his writings for eternity, the philosophers...
Israel calls EU labeling ‘double standard’
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTANov 19, 2015
AMSTERDAM To Israel and many of its supporters, the new EU regulations requiring separate labeling for settlement goods are discriminatory measures reminiscent of...
Parisian dining, strictly kosher — with a Michelin starred chef
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTANov 12, 2015
PARIS With 84 Michelin-certified restaurants and a combined total of 115 stars, the French capital offers a dazzling gastronomic selection to anyone willing to...
Russia’s kosher guru branches out to halal
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAOct 08, 2015
MOSCOW At Russias largest kosher food factory, owner Pinhas Slobodnik welcomes his Muslim workers with an Arabic greeting that he pronounces in a thick Russian...
