International
Italian shuls cautiously reopen
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAMay 28, 2020
ROME — The tables were still covered with open copies of the Book of Esther when Rabbi Yigal Chazan reentered his Milan synagogue this week. The scripture is read...
Sweden reduces restrictions; Jewish community, not
Josefin Dolsten, JTAMay 21, 2020
STOCKHOLM — Face masks are a rare sight in Sweden. That’s because the country has taken one of the least restrictive approaches to the coronavirus pandemic in the...
Holocaust hero — or murderer?
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAMay 21, 2020
AMSTERDAM — In his native Germany and beyond, Hans Calmeyer is celebrated as a hero who saved more Jews from the Holocaust than Oskar Schindler. As a jurist for the...
Dutch king acknowledges guilt
JTAMay 07, 2020
AMSTERDAM — King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands in a memorial day speech acknowledged his great-grandmother’s indifference to the fate of Dutch Jews during the...
When a saver of lives needs to be saved
JNSMay 07, 2020
By Josh Hasten United Hatzalah of Israel, the country’s largest independent volunteer emergency medical response organization, put on an online telethon on May 3 to...
How to run a marathon — on your balcony
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAApr 17, 2020
PARIS — Elisha Nochomovitz, a 32-year-old French Jew, was to be among the 17,000 participants in the Barcelona Marathon on March 15. But the marathon, one of...
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 school...
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...
Coronavirus affects Passover getaways
Ben Harris, JTAMar 05, 2020
NEW YORK — For the past three years, Esther Possick has avoided the hassle of hosting Passover at her Long Island home by traveling to kosher hotels in foreign...
Mauthausen — 75 years later
JTAMar 05, 2020
By Larry Luxner MAUTHAUSEN, Austria — Under a bright blue sky, with Austria’s snow-capped Alps in the distance, Racheli Kreisberg set foot for the first time inside...
