Rage in Paris
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAApr 29, 2021
PARIS — A rumble rose from the 20,000 Jewish protesters at Trocadero Square, then exploded into shrill screams. “I don’t even know whether to reassure you or cry...
In Northern Ireland, Brexit affects Passover
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAApr 01, 2021
LONDON — This year, in the run-up to Passover, the Jewish communities of Northern Island and Ireland showed an unusual sign of collaboration. Due to a Passover food...
In Eastern Europe, the price of an abandoned synagogue is a used car
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAMar 11, 2021
MINSK — On a visit to the city of Slonim in Belarus, Ilona Reeves fell in love with a 380-year-old dilapidated building that used to house one of the area’s...
‘Magic Carpet’ swept under the rug
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAMar 04, 2021
JERUSALEM — The Israeli government approved a plan on Feb. 22 to provide compensation of up to $60,000 to some of the families of children who went missing while in...
Jews object to cancelled ‘Jew cookie’
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAFeb 25, 2021
AMSTERDAM — In Dutch supermarkets, no cookie aisle is fully stocked without a national treat called jodenkoeken, shortbread discs whose Dutch name means “Jew...
British Jews protest Uighur genocide
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAFeb 25, 2021
LONDON — As the leader of British Jewry’s main human rights group, Mia Hasenson-Gross regularly hears personal stories of loss, grief and helplessness. But few...
Last Jew of Khujan, Tajikistan dies
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAFeb 11, 2021
KHUJAND, Tajikistan — For many centuries, the city of Khujand in Tajikistan, a mountainous Muslim-majority country, had been a center of Jewish presence in Central...
Elieser, a slave, converted to Judaism; now his grave is a black pilgrimate site
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAJan 28, 2021
OUDERKERK AAN DE AMSTEL, Netherlands — Each year on the last Wednesday of June, dozens of people arrive by boat at the Jewish cemetery of this picturesque town near...
Dugo Day: falafel symbolizes horror and triumph
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAJan 28, 2021
JERUSALEM — On Jan. 18, 1945, the Nazis at Auschwitz forced David Leitner and about 66,000 other camp prisoners to march through the snow. Underfed, exhausted and...
Holocaust film seeks human side in the enemy
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAJan 21, 2021
AMSTERDAM — For a movie about the Holocaust, the Belarussian film “Persian Lessons” has some comic potential. Set in a concentration camp somewhere in Western...
