International
Some French shuls dwindle; some surge
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAApr 12, 2018
NEUILLY-SUR-SEINE, France — If French Jewry is facing an existential threat because of anti-Semitic violence, then little of the drama is on display in this affluent...
Israeli Labor cuts ties with UK Labour
JTAApr 12, 2018
JERUSALEM — Israel’s Labor Party has temporarily suspended “all formal relations” with its British party counterpart because of leader Jeremy Corbyn’s failure...
In latest election, Hungary veers far right
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAApr 12, 2018
BUDAPEST — The extremist Jobbik party may have come up short in Hungary’s Sunday, April 8, election, but that doesn’t mean the country’s far right isn’t...
Murder of Holocaust survivor galvanizes France
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAApr 05, 2018
PARIS — After French authorities swiftly filed hate-crime charges against the Muslim suspect in the murder of a Holocaust survivor in Paris, for many Jews at a vigil...
The exiled face of resistance in Venezuela
Ron Kampeas, JTAMar 22, 2018
WASHINGTON — David Smolansky has become the exiled face of the resistance to the regime of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. It doesn’t take long to realize why...
White House hosts conference on Gaza crisis
Marcy Oster, JTAMar 15, 2018
WASHINGTON — The human suffering in Gaza has grown over the past year, top US Middle East negotiator Jason Greenblatt told a conference to discuss aid for the coastal...
Anti-Jewish wave in 1968 Poland comes to fore
JTAMar 15, 2018
WARSAW — Poland’s president asked for forgiveness for an anti-Jewish wave that drove Jews from the country in March, 1968, but said today’s Poland is not...
Was Putin’s invocation of ‘Jew’ lost in translation?
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAMar 15, 2018
MOSCOW — When Boruch Gorin, a rabbi in Moscow, traveled for the first time from Russia to the US, a US Customs officer asked him whether he was Russian. “I said,...
What will happen to Poland trips?
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAMar 08, 2018
NEW YORK — Three years ago, Shaul de Malach had no problem joining fellow educators from his country on a trip to former Nazi death camps in Poland. Like tens of...
Jewish Iranian refugee awaits her fate in the Netherlands
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAMar 01, 2018
UTRECHT, Netherlands — To the dozens of revelers of this city’s main Purim party, a Jewish grandmother who cooks the event’s annual Persia-themed holiday feast is...
