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A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light
A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light
All content by Cnaan Liphshiz
"Where Is Anne Frank" reimagines the famous diarist's life in animated form, with Israeli director Ari Folman partnering with the foundation that holds the copyright to her diary. (Courtesy of Purple Whale Films)

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

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

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

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
Kefale Tayachew Damtie, second from right, and his children greet visitiors to their home in Gondar, Ethiopia, May 29, 2022. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

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

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

CNAAN LIPHSHIZ, JTA
Published May 13, 2022
The cast of 'Heirs of the Land' perform during filming in Spain in 2020. (Courtesy of Netflix)

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’

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

CNAAN LIPHSHIZ, JTA
Published April 20, 2022
Brazilian journalist apologizes for saying his country would need to kill its Jews to match Germany’s wealth

[Photo] Brazilian journalist apologizes for saying his country would need to kill its Jews to match Germany’s wealth

Published November 18, 2021

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

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published November 16, 2021
A bicycle path passes on either side of a monument to Holocaust survivors buried in a mass grave in Šiauliai, Lithuania, pictured on Nov. 10, 2021. (Courtesy of Rabbi Kalev Kerlin)

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
‘Death to Jews,’ Polish radicals shout while burning Jewish book at a nationalist rally

[Photo] ‘Death to Jews,’ Polish radicals shout while burning Jewish book at a nationalist rally

Published November 12, 2021

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

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published November 9, 2021
The owner of Kosher MeatUp says it's the only place to get kosher fast food in the Hungarian capital. (Courtesy of Kosher MeatUp)

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
A poster advertising an exhibition in Luxembourg on the actions of Aristides de Sousa Mendes. (Courtesy of the government of Luxembourg)

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

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published October 20, 2021
Gil Ofarim, a German-Israeli singer, said in a video posted to social media that he had been denied a hotel room in Leipzig, Germany, after being told to hide his Jewish star necklace. (Screenshot from Instagram video)

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

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published October 19, 2021
The Union Jack flies on the seat of the British parliament in London, June 20, 2014. (Rennett Stowe/Wikimedia Commons)

Kosher food made available at British parliament

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published October 19, 2021
The main synagogue in Malmö, Sweden. (Wikimedia Commons)

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

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published October 15, 2021
Joel Mergui speaks at a European Jewish Association conference in Brussels, Belgium on Oct. 12, 2021. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

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

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published October 13, 2021
Hungarian Jews celebrate the opening of a new synagogue in Budapest on Aug. 27, 2021. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

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
Andrei Zeltzer stands with a hunting rifle behind the door of his home in Minsk, Belarus on Sept. 29, 2021. (Maria Uspenskaya)

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

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published October 6, 2021
Gil Ofarim, a German-Israeli singer, said in a video posted to social media that he had been denied a hotel room in Leipzig, Germany, after being told to hide his Jewish star necklace.

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

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

JTA
Published October 4, 2021
Is Alicia Silvestone Jewish?

Is Alicia Silvestone Jewish?

JTA
Published October 3, 2021
The remarkable true story of the Great Knish War of 1916

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

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

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
Marcel Goldhammer, left, Julian Potthast and Robert Eschricht at an Alternative for Germany event in Berlin, June 14, 2021. (Courtesy of Goldhammer)

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
The Cathedral of Bergen, Norway. (Wikimedia Commons / Diego Delso)

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
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addresses parliament in Kyiv, Ukraine,May 20, 2019. (U.S. Embassy Kyiv, Ukraine/Flickr)

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
A leather shop that used to be a synagogue in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. Cnaan Liphshiz

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

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published September 20, 2021
Asylum seekers from Afghanistan reach Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates on Sept. 6, 2021. (IsraAID)

Israeli philanthropists help dozens flee Afghanistan for United Arab Emirates

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published September 20, 2021
A Torah scroll that the Nazis stole from a Czech congregation on display at The Memorial Scrolls Trust in London. (Courtesy of the European Union for Progressive Judaism)

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
Men wear Nazi uniforms during a COVID-19 protest in the Netherlands city of Urk, Sept. 10, 2021. ("Hart van Nederland")

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

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published September 14, 2021
The Jewish cemetery of La Tablada in Buenos Aires, Argentina, pictured in 2013. (Wikimedia Commons/Dario Alpern)

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
Thanos Plervis (The Hellenic Parliament)

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

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published September 2, 2021
Children examine a Torah scroll as it is carried into the Vorosmarty Street Synagogue in Budapest, Hungary, Aug. 27, 2021. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

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

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

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

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

JTA
Published August 6, 2021
Feds seize Jewish artifacts from Brooklyn auction house • Bernie Madoff’s prison wages • Jewish camps beef up security

[Photo] Feds seize Jewish artifacts from Brooklyn auction house • Bernie Madoff’s prison wages • Jewish camps beef up security

Published July 23, 2021
Jewish man documents encountering antisemitic abuse twice in one hour in London

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

Incendiary balloons from Gaza prompt new Israeli airstrikes

JTA
Published June 16, 2021
Passengers traveling on the Stresa-Mottarone cable car, July 2009. (Wikimedia Commons)

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

CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
Published May 24, 2021
Noa Lang, right, and a teammate enjoy a bubble bath in Brugge, Belgium, May 21, 2021. (Brugge FC)

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
A pro-Palestinian slogan and the acronym for a praise for Allah on the wall of the synagogue in Cueta, Spain on May 12, 2021. (FJCE)

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
Eran Zahavi, left, plays for Israel at a Champions League game against Chelsea FC in London, UK on Sept. 16, 2016. (Wikimedia Commons)

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
The seat of the County Council of Cambridgeshire (Courtesy of the council)

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
Protesters attend the "Justice for Sarah Halimi" rally in Paris, France, April 25, 2021. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

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

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published April 27, 2021
Thousands protest the French high court's ruling on the 2017 murder of Sarah Halimi in Paris on April 25, 2021. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

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

CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
Published April 25, 2021
Sarah Halimi was beaten before she was thrown off her Paris apartment building's roof in April 2017. (Courtesy of the Halimi family)

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

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published April 23, 2021
Friedrich Karl Berger in 1959. (Source: U.S. Department of Justice)

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

CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
Published April 22, 2021
Students explore Camp Amersfoort in the Netherlands, April 19, 2021. (Mike Bink/National Monument Kamp Amersfoort)

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

CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
Published April 22, 2021
The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt transits the Pacific Ocean, Jan. 25, 2020. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Kaylianna Genier)

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

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published April 20, 2021
Beata Szydło, then the prime minister of Poland, speaks to reporters in Warsaw, July 31, 2016. (Kancelaria Premiera)

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 Philosopher

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
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