Italy: ‘Smell of death all around’
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAApr 02, 2020
MILAN — At least twice a day, Micol Naccache breaks down in tears over what the coronavirus is doing to her city of Milan and its Jewish community. A high […]
Coronavirus: family separation in Italy
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAMar 12, 2020
ROME — The outbreak of the coronavirus in northern Italy forced Claudia Bagnarelli to make a painful choice. “To keep visiting my 94-year-old mother, I needed to...
Credibility gap at Yad Vashem
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAFeb 13, 2020
JERUSALEM — On one level, the recent event commemorating the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz at Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust museum was a tour de...
Poland’s silent heroes ride for free
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAFeb 06, 2020
WARSAW — Outside one of this city’s many brutalist apartment buildings, passersby stop to stare at and photograph a London-style taxi emblazoned with large Star of...
Ukraine’s Zelensky loves Israel, Israelis
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAJan 23, 2020
KIEV — President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine extolled Israelis as a “united, strong, powerful” and “unique” people in his first interview for an Israeli...
On Holocaust culpability, Lithuania following Poland’s example
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAJan 16, 2020
VILNIUS — Poland passed a controversial Holocaust law last year that drew sharp international criticism and damaged its relations with Israel, US and Jewish groups...
Storied Amsterdam menorah gets a makeover
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAJan 02, 2020
AMSTERDAM — For the Amsterdam Jewish Historical Museum, Chanukah this year entailed the stressful chore of assembling the world’s most expensive menorah. Last...
Zhug is spicing up Ukraine economy
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAJan 02, 2020
TAIROVE, Ukraine — For a couple of days each week, the Black Sea breeze carries the aroma of cilantro across this town near Odessa. The smell blends nicely with the...
Ukraine: Five-year anniversary
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTADec 19, 2019
CHANUKAH 5780 SECTION A PAGE 18 KIEV — Ukraine is in the news now for its ties to the Trump impeachment scandal, but this year also marks the fifth anniversary...
Jewish angst in Britain
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTADec 05, 2019
LONDON — As the United Kingdom nears the final stretch of what is shaping up to be one of its most fateful general elections since WW II, all eyes are […]
