JTA Archives - St. Louis Jewish Light

STL film festival features animated Anne Frank movie

CNAAN LIPHSHIZ, JTA
Published November 3, 2022

As Putin’s war sputters, antisemitism seeps into the Russian media landscape

Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA
Published September 28, 2022

Swedish hospital wrongfully fired doctor who complained of superior’s antisemitic bullying, court rules

CNAAN LIPHSHIZ, JTA
Published September 6, 2022

Rolf Eden, Germany’s leading playboy who fought in Israel’s War of Independence, dies at 92

CNAAN LIPHSHIZ, JTA
Published August 17, 2022

Holocaust memorials in Buchenwald and Berlin vandalized in same week

CNAAN LIPHSHIZ, JTA
Published July 22, 2022

Russia orders Jewish Agency to cease work and remove staff from country, Russian media report

CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
Published July 21, 2022

How Russia’s war is undoing 30 years of Jewish community building in Ukraine

CNAAN LIPHSHIZ, JTA
Published July 20, 2022

Israeli family risks it all to retrieve rare Ethiopian Bible

CNAAN LIPHSHIZ, JTA
Published July 5, 2022

How Israel’s Falash Mura immigration from Ethiopia became a painful 30-year saga, with no end in sight

CNAAN LIPHSHIZ, JTA
Published June 14, 2022

Moscow’s chief rabbi in exile after refusing to back Putin’s war on Ukraine, relative says

CNAAN LIPHSHIZ, JTA
Published June 8, 2022

After decades of waiting, 300 of Ethiopia’s Falash Mura to leave for Israel this week

CNAAN LIPHSHIZ, JTA
Published May 31, 2022

German teen suspected of planning school attack had explosives, antisemitic literature

CNAAN LIPHSHIZ, JTA
Published May 13, 2022

Spanish Jews take the spotlight in Netflix series about the Inquisition

CNAAN LIPHSHIZ, JTA
Published May 6, 2022

Ukrainian Jewish leader added to list of pro-Russia ‘traitors’

CNAAN LIPHSHIZ, JTA
Published April 20, 2022

Budapest’s new $30m Holocaust museum sits in limbo as Hungary debates its contents

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published November 16, 2021

Following outcry, Lithuanian city halts construction of bike path near Holocaust mass grave

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published November 16, 2021

‘No longer kept secret’: New plaques give context to Dutch cemetery where Nazis are buried next to WWII victims

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published November 16, 2021

On Kristallnacht anniversary, Austrian government unveils memorial wall with 64,440 names

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published November 9, 2021

Budapest’s only kosher fast food joint hungrily awaits the return of Israeli tourists

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published November 2, 2021

Naftali Bennett at COP26: Israeli start-ups should focus their energies on climate change

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published November 2, 2021

French chief rabbi calls Jewish prospective presidential candidate an ‘antisemite’

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published November 1, 2021

The Alfred Dreyfus affair shocked Jews in France. Now there’s a museum devoted to it.

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published October 26, 2021

Portuguese diplomat who saved thousands of Jews during the Holocaust receives posthumous honor

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published October 20, 2021

German-Israeli singer insists he ‘didn’t lie’ about discrimination over Jewish symbol at Leipzig hotel

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published October 19, 2021

Kosher food made available at British parliament

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published October 19, 2021

‘Holocaust was a scam’ projected on Swedish synagogue during international antisemitism conference

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published October 15, 2021

European Union plan to fight antisemitism ‘not serious,’ Jewish community leaders say

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published October 13, 2021

In Europe, antisemitism is highest in countries with the fewest racist attacks on Jews

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published October 12, 2021

Despairing of physical preservation, a Jewish exile from Libya sets up virtual cemeteries

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published October 11, 2021

London lawmakers reject plan for high-rise building next to historic synagogue

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published October 6, 2021

Death of Jewish dissent during home raid by Belarus security forces prompts protests and arrests

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published October 6, 2021

Hundreds protest antisemitism after German hotel staff accused of refusing to serve man wearing Star of David pendant

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published October 6, 2021

Auschwitz museum hit with antisemitic graffiti

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published October 5, 2021

EU publishes ‘strategic plan’ for countering antisemitism

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published October 5, 2021

Amid antisemitism concerns, 101 local Jewish federations to spend $54M on improving security

JTA
Published October 4, 2021

Is Alicia Silvestone Jewish?

JTA
Published October 3, 2021

The remarkable true story of the Great Knish War of 1916

Jordan Palmer and JTA
Published October 3, 2021

Alleged Nazi-era war criminal, 96, caught in Germany after skipping trial

Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA
Published September 30, 2021

Alleged Nazi-era war criminal, 96, misses court date, declared fugitive in Germany

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published September 30, 2021

UK Labour Party announces new review process for antisemitism complaints, and end of ‘a dark chapter’ for Jews

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published September 27, 2021

A Jewish male model is running for Germany’s parliament — on the far-right ticket

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published September 24, 2021

Mervyn Taylor, Ireland’s first Jewish cabinet minister, dies at 89

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published September 24, 2021

Norwegian church hosts photo exhibition saying Palestinians are ‘crucified daily’

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published September 24, 2021

‘A steadfast ally’: Angela Merkel’s departure from politics is a sad moment for many German Jews

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published September 24, 2021

Ukraine passes law banning antisemitism

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published September 23, 2021

Jewish aide to Ukraine’s president survives assassination attempt

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published September 23, 2021

Levi, Thirza and Ezra: Why are non-Jewish Dutch parents giving their children Jewish names?

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published September 21, 2021

For Mallorca’s Jews, their first ‘public’ sukkah is a triumph over the Spanish Inquisition

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published September 20, 2021

Israeli philanthropists help dozens flee Afghanistan for United Arab Emirates

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published September 20, 2021

Torah scroll the Nazis stole for their post-Holocaust ‘Jewish museum’ returns to service in Prague

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published September 20, 2021

Amsterdam’s latest Holocaust memorial features the names of 102,000 victims

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published September 19, 2021

At Dutch COVID protest, men dressed as Nazis mock arrest of participant wearing yellow star

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published September 14, 2021

More than 100 headstones smashed at Jewish cemetery in Argentina

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published September 9, 2021

6 Palestinian terrorists use crawl space to escape maximum-security Israeli prison

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published September 9, 2021

World Jewish population rises slightly to 15.2 million

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published September 9, 2021

Afghanistan’s last Jew has left the country

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published September 9, 2021

Greece appoints health minister who defended his father’s desire to see Jews in Auschwitz

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published September 2, 2021

2 new synagogues open in Budapest with celebrations that bring rival Jewish groups together

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published September 2, 2021

Ed Asner, who starred as Lou Grant, dies at 91

JTA
Published August 29, 2021

GOP congressman compares COVID measures to Holocaust, prompting an intern’s resignation

JTA
Published August 27, 2021

Poland is ‘reviewing’ changes to Israel’s annual school trips to former concentration camps

CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
Published August 16, 2021

18 Orthodox Jewish girls pulled off New York-bound flight in Amsterdam in dispute over COVID protocols

jta
Published August 8, 2021

Hezbollah fires 19 rockets at Israel in worst fighting since 2006 war

JTA
Published August 6, 2021

Jewish man documents encountering antisemitic abuse twice in one hour in London

CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
Published July 6, 2021

Incendiary balloons from Gaza prompt new Israeli airstrikes

JTA
Published June 16, 2021

5 Israelis from one family among 14 dead in cable car crash in Italy

CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
Published May 24, 2021

Belgian soccer star defends chanting he’d ‘rather die than be a Jew’

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published May 24, 2021

Despite calls for de-escalation, Hamas and Israel trade blows amid ceasefire talks

CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
Published May 20, 2021

Israeli flags burned outside 2 German synagogues; Spanish synagogue vandalized

CNAAN LIPHSHIZ and TOBY AXELROD
Published May 12, 2021

Rockets from Gaza batter Tel Aviv area, killing 1 and suspending air traffic

CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
Published May 11, 2021

Escalating rocket fire between Gaza and Israel leaves 2 Israelis and at least 20 Palestinians dead

CNAAN LIPHSHIZ and GABE FRIEDMAN
Published May 11, 2021

The Guardian says supporting the Balfour Declaration in 1917 was a mistake

CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
Published May 10, 2021

Hamas top official, 3 children among 9 reported killed in Israeli retaliatory strike in Gaza

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published May 10, 2021

Israeli soccer star’s family threatened at gunpoint and robbed in home break-in

CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
Published May 10, 2021

Violence rages in West Bank and Jerusalem, as dozens are injured in police clashes and Palestinian attackers are killed in shootout

CNAAN LIPHSHIZ and GABE FRIEDMAN
Published May 7, 2021

British Labour Party suspends 14 members over alleged antisemitism

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published April 30, 2021

Long before stampede, Mount Meron’s history has been a mix of tragedy and euphoria

CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
Published April 30, 2021

Paris to name a street for Sarah Halimi

CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
Published April 30, 2021

What to know about the Sarah Halimi case and why it matters

Philissa Cramer and Cnaan Liphshiz
Published April 29, 2021

Infuriated by Halimi ruling, French Jews protest state’s handling of anti-Semitism

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published April 27, 2021

In protest rallies, thousands of Jews in France demand ‘justice for Sarah Halimi’

CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
Published April 25, 2021

Sarah Halimi’s family in France want her killer tried in Israel

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published April 23, 2021

Germany won’t prosecute 95-year-old former concentration camp guard deported from US

CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
Published April 22, 2021

Museum opened at one of Holland’s most infamous Nazi camps

CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
Published April 22, 2021

Hasidic sailor does not have to shave his beard, federal judge rules

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published April 20, 2021

2 more historians quit Auschwitz museum board over right-wing politician’s appointment

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published April 16, 2021

Dutch shop fined for omitting the word ‘settlement’ from label of Israeli wine from the West Bank

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published April 15, 2021

Polish Jewish leader quits Auschwitz museum board over right-wing politician’s appointment

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published April 14, 2021

French-Jewish gay man threatened in Turkish prison, his family says

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published April 13, 2021

Isi Leibler, activist for Soviet Jewry who helped expose World Jewish Congress scandal, dies at 86

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published April 13, 2021

Earliest evidence of kosher diet in UK found in 800-year-old animal bones from Oxford

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published April 12, 2021

Dutch national laureate philosopher calls Diaspora a ‘blessing’ because it prevented Jews from having power

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published April 9, 2021

Growing up in Anne Frank’s shadow, my kids have known about the Holocaust since before they could speak

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published April 8, 2021

Collapsible synagogue opens on former killing ground of Babyn Yar in Ukraine

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published April 8, 2021

‘Not too late to show gratitude’: First housing project for elderly rescuers who saved Jews in the Holocaust launches in Belarus

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published April 7, 2021

Anti-Semitic assaults worldwide dropped 19% in 2020 due to pandemic, report says

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published April 7, 2021

Top Nazi official who spied for US was allowed to avoid trial until his death in 1975

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published April 7, 2021