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All content by Cnaan Liphshiz

Gas canisters, Nazi slogans hurled at 4 London Jews

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Published January 13, 2017

Vandals scrawl ‘kill Jews’ at Massachusetts cemetery

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Published January 13, 2017

Report: Abbas met with U.S. businessmen to establish back channel to Trump

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Published January 13, 2017

Jewish landlords among 41 charged in Brooklyn alleged gas meter scam

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Published January 13, 2017

Israel frees UN employee who helped Hamas in Gaza

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Published January 13, 2017

Israel bombed military airport near Damascus, Syrian officials say

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Published January 13, 2017

Aliyah from Europe unaffected by Israel’s security situation, study finds

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Published January 13, 2017

Jobbik party vows to reverse its anti-Israel attitude

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Published January 13, 2017

Man who kidnapped, murdered Parisian Jew gets 10 more years in jail

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Published January 12, 2017

Lithuanian game show taken off the air over Nazi salute and ‘Jew’ clue

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Published January 10, 2017

Rotterdam city hall flies Israeli flag in solidarity against terrorism

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Published January 10, 2017

Non-Jewish Poles don yarmulkes to protest anti-Semitism

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Published January 9, 2017

Belgian newspaper fires columnist over praise of driver who killed Israeli soldiers

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Published January 9, 2017

Prosecution wants to squelch names of witnesses against Robert Durst

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Published January 6, 2017

Spanish region reportedly adopts Israel boycott

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Published January 6, 2017

The Auschwitz museum has a Twitter account, and this ex-journalist runs it

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Published January 6, 2017

Netanyahu thanks Congress, ‘America’ for House resolution condemning UN vote

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Published January 6, 2017

Polish Jewish museum, Warsaw community bury hatchet in bid for unity

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Published January 6, 2017

Jordanian official: Moving US embassy to Jerusalem would be ‘catastrophic’

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Published January 6, 2017

Hollywood stars gather to remember Carrie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds

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Published January 6, 2017

French supermarket apologizes for ‘made in Israeli settlement’ labels

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Published January 6, 2017

Dutch rapper: ‘Jews like money’ song is a compliment

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Published January 4, 2017

Israeli man arrested in Uman, Ukraine for desecrating cross

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Published January 4, 2017

Ukrainian marchers in Kiev chant ‘Jews out’

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Published January 3, 2017

Gay British couple assaulted after anti-Semitic, homophobic slurs directed at them

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Published January 3, 2017

39 killed in Istanbul nightclub attack

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Published January 1, 2017

Greek game firm closes Auschwitz ‘escape room’ following complaints

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Published December 30, 2016

Ex-POW featured in Hillary Clinton campaign dies

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Published December 30, 2016

In rare move, Spanish town votes to reverse BDS resolution it passed this year

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Published December 30, 2016

Christians, Jews protest New Zealand’s co-sponsoring of UN resolution on Israel

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Published December 30, 2016

Dutch insurer defends circumcision coverage

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Published December 30, 2016

Argentine court rules ex-president may have covered up Iranian terrorist attack on Jews

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Published December 30, 2016

British government slams Kerry’s ‘focus only’ on settlements, Israeli politics

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Published December 29, 2016

Philosopher Bernard Henri-Levy revisits Jewish roots in new book

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Published December 29, 2016

Hungarian rabbi spurns Hanukkah greetings from far-right party over anti-Semitism

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Published December 29, 2016

Norway public broadcaster apologizes for spoofing Holocaust in satirical video

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Published December 29, 2016

Aliyah dips 13 percent overall despite reaching 10-year-high in Russia

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Published December 29, 2016

French Jews slam Israeli defense chief’s remarks on leaving for Israel, Dreyfus trial

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Published December 28, 2016

Belgian actor blasts ‘criminal procreation policies of the Jews in Israel’

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Published December 28, 2016

Hundreds gather near UN court for Hanukkah event and protest of anti-Israel bias

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Published December 28, 2016

Do Germans wish each other ‘Shanah Tovah’ on New Year’s Eve?

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Published December 27, 2016

Russian Jews celebrate 25 years of community events at Kremlin

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Published December 23, 2016

Call for veto of UN anti-settlement resolution grows stronger

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Published December 23, 2016

In Warsaw, students flock to Hanukkah event following classmate’s anti-Semitism

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Published December 23, 2016

Protesting Trump’s ‘racism,’ artists want his daughter Ivanka not to display their work

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Published December 23, 2016

2 Boston-area schools scrap hockey season over players’ anti-Semitism

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Published December 23, 2016

NY’s 1st Hasidic female judge sworn in at ceremony featuring Yiddish song

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Published December 23, 2016

Barcelona court scraps suburb’s BDS resolution

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Published December 23, 2016

Main suspect in Berlin Christmas market attack killed in Italy

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Published December 23, 2016

Orthodox Union wants nonpartisan response to Trump interfaith inaugural event

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Published December 23, 2016

Amid pressure from Trump and Netanyahu, Egypt stalls UN anti-settlement vote

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Published December 23, 2016

Europe’s Jews prepare public Hanukkah events to ‘drive out darkness’

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Published December 22, 2016

Uman synagogue vandalized with pig’s head bearing swastika

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Published December 21, 2016

Prague subway employee allegedly threatened to ‘cut off’ head of kippah-wearing passenger

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Published December 20, 2016

French chief rabbi offers condolences, prayers after deadly Berlin Christmas attack

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Published December 19, 2016

Bulgarian Jews raising money for Muslim victims of train explosion

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Published December 19, 2016

Southern French city of Carpentras to renovate 650-year-old synagogue

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Published December 19, 2016

French-Jewish scholar to appear in Paris court for alleged hate speech against Muslims

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Published December 19, 2016

Alleged Jewish gangster shot 5 times in Paris

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Published December 19, 2016

Nazis caught Anne Frank over illegal food trade, new study suggests

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Published December 16, 2016

American Jewish filmmaker says he was attacked by Arabic speakers in Stockholm

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Published December 16, 2016

Paris museum labels Auschwitz a ‘Bauhaus architectural achievement’

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Published December 16, 2016

Trump’s pick for Israel envoy elates hawks, worries doves

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Published December 16, 2016

Socialite Shelli Azoff asks celebrities not to mention Trump at her LA bash

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Published December 16, 2016

Israel wants ‘butcher’ Assad ousted, defense minister says

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Published December 16, 2016

Jerusalem sees 72% drop in terrorist attacks

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Published December 16, 2016

In Central Asia, Netanyahu scores diplomatic home run in Iran’s backyard

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Published December 15, 2016

City in Norway adopts resolution to boycott Israeli goods from ‘occupied territories’

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Published December 15, 2016

How Hanukkah sufganiyot became a national treat in the Netherlands

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Published December 14, 2016

Bullet holes found in French synagogue’s front wall, mailbox

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Published December 14, 2016

Descendant of Holocaust survivors leads assault on Holland’s far right

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Published December 13, 2016

Vincent Peillon announces his candidacy to succeed French president

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Published December 13, 2016

Museum to use software for posthumous talks with Poles who saved Jews

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Published December 11, 2016

FBI reportedly stalling efforts to deliver Kenyan Guantánamo inmate to Israel

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Published December 9, 2016

Jewish comedian T.J. Miller arrested in altercation over Trump with Uber driver

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Published December 9, 2016

Brussels can fight Jew-hatred without definition of it, says envoy on anti-Semitism

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published December 9, 2016

Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders convicted of inciting against Moroccans

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Published December 9, 2016

East Jerusalem teenagers held for planning to shoot soldiers

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Published December 9, 2016

DNA leads Dutch cops to arrest suspect in murder mystery from 1990

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Published December 9, 2016

In Manuel Valls, French Jews get a presidential candidate they can trust

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Published December 7, 2016

Complaint filed over Muslim founders of Dutch political party who said Hitler was Jewish

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Published December 7, 2016

Report: British intelligence spied on Israeli diplomats, military

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Published December 7, 2016

Restitution group launches Warsaw database to counter limiting legislation

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Published December 6, 2016

‘Birthright for moms’ resonates with world’s small Jewish communities

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Published December 5, 2016

Torah scroll stolen from Georgia synagogue found destroyed

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Published December 5, 2016

Dutch police arrest jihadists who planned synagogue attack

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Published December 4, 2016

Polish culture minister denies involvement in anti-Semitic event

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Published December 4, 2016

Austria’s rising far right seen as proof of failure to address Nazi past

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Published December 2, 2016

Britain’s Mitzvah Day brings out record 25,000 volunteers

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Published December 2, 2016

Hollande says he will not seek 2nd term as French president

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Published December 2, 2016

Report: Iran owns 5% of shares of the German firm building subs for Israel

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Published December 2, 2016

Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz to step down

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Published December 2, 2016

Ethel Rosenberg’s sons urge Obama to posthumously exonerate spy mother

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Published December 2, 2016

IDF chief rabbi sworn in after apologizing over statements on raping women

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Published December 2, 2016

After fires, heavy rainfall brings flooding to central Israel

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Published December 2, 2016

Why Jews in France might give right-wing populist Francois Fillon a chance

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Published November 29, 2016

In Holland, a Jewish journalist belatedly honored for unmasking a ‘monster’

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Published November 29, 2016

Why Brazilian Jews celebrate UN vote on Israel with prime beef and a ton of garlic

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Published November 28, 2016

Skater wearing concentration camp uniform performs on Russian television

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Published November 27, 2016

As wildfires rage across Israel, firefighting efforts diverted from Haifa to Jerusalem

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Published November 25, 2016
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