International
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...
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...
