Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA
Buda trumps Pest in Jewish revival
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTADec 05, 2019
BUDAPEST — Most of this Hungarian capital’s approximately 20 synagogues are concentrated in three districts in Pest, the bustling half of the city east of the Danube...
Porto, Portugal: Rags to Riches
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTANov 28, 2019
A decade ago, no rabbi; today, a hotel, mikveh, museum — and $1 million movie LISBON — A decade ago, the tiny Jewish Community of Porto didn’t have enough money...
For Ukraine’s Jews, Jewish president is source of pride, fear
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTANov 14, 2019
ODESSA — Arkady Kesselman, a 20-year-old Jewish student, was set on leaving his native Ukraine for the West last winter. In a war-torn nation losing about 1.2 million...
Is Corbyn an ‘existential threat’?
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTANov 07, 2019
LONDON — After nearly a decade in power, Britain’s Conservative Party is in tatters. Years of failing to negotiate a deal with the EU to follow through with Brexit...
Germany is rethinking Jewish security
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAOct 24, 2019
BERLIN — In the aftermath of the shooting outside a synagogue in the German city of Halle, local authorities are rethinking their approach to securing the country’s...
Attack in Halle was the first in decades by the far right
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAOct 17, 2019
The identity of the German synagogue attacker may have sounded familiar to American Jews, who have endured multiple attacks by far-right extremists over the past year....
Jews of Nice, France doubt their future there
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAOct 03, 2019
NICE, France — This sleepy Mediterranean city has been a haven for Jews for nearly 1,000 years. As recently as 15 years ago, this former trading hub with a tradition...
Transnistria: ‘It’s like a time machine’
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTASep 26, 2019
TIRASPOL, Transnistria — Officially, this disputed sliver of land between Ukraine and Moldova is called the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic. But to visitors to...
Smoked salmon purveyor is also a Brexit politician
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTASep 26, 2019
ROSH HASHANAH EDITION 5780 SECTION B PAGE 8 LONDON — Twenty years ago, this city’s oldest maker of smoked salmon endured a series of catastrophes that convinced its...
The Robin Hood of Moldova
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTASep 05, 2019
CHISINAU, Moldova — Given enough vodka, some of Shimon Katz’s non-Jewish acquaintances here usually bring up a name that has complicated his relationship with them....