International
Germany cracks down on far-right groups
JTAFeb 20, 2020
By Rebecca Spiess Note: This story was printed prior to the Feb. 20 deadly attack in Hanau, Germany. BERLIN — Following multiple high-profile attacks by far-right...
Egyptian Jews celebrate Alexandria shul
JTAFeb 20, 2020
CAIRO (JTA) — They came from around the world, dozens of Jews of Egyptian origin, to celebrate a Sabbath service at the newly renovated 14th-century synagogue in...
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...
Coronavirus: Paradoxes of a potential pandemic
Andrea JacobsFeb 06, 2020
 coronavirus, or 2019-nCoV, first detected in December in patients that visited a seafood market in Wuhan, China, alarms US and global medical, political and travel...
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...
‘A Field for Ezra’ — in honor of a terror victim
Marcy Oster, JTAJan 30, 2020
JERUSALEM — American teen Ezra Schwartz will never play on the baseball field in Ra’anana that bears his name. But hundreds of Israeli young people, including some...
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...
Democratic candidates’ positions on Iran
Ron Kampeas, JTAJan 23, 2020
WASHINGTON — Based on the last Democratic presidential debate and, in Elizabeth Warren’s case other sources, the candidates think that President Donald Trump made a...
Royal Bat Mitzvah
Josefin Dolsten, JTAJan 16, 2020
PHNON PENH — Members of the Cambodian royal family gathered last month at the Raffles Hotel Le Royal in Phnom Penh for a celebration. There was music, traditional...
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...
