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

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Blogger Alison Chabloz, who is accused of posting anti-semitic songs on her site, arrives at Westminster Magistrate's Court in London on January 10, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / Tolga AKMEN (Photo credit should read TOLGA AKMEN/AFP/Getty Images)

British court jails Holocaust denier for inciting hatred against Jews

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published April 1, 2021

Local politician in Poland makes anti-Semitic joke at council meeting

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published April 1, 2021

Church of England sorry for prayer booklet that resembles Passover Haggadah

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published April 1, 2021

UK Muslim-Jewish cooking project to benefit from Meghan Markle $13,700 donation

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published April 1, 2021

Baby dolls splashed with red paint strung outside Swedish synagogue in suspected Passover hate crime

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published March 31, 2021

Turkish police say they seized 2,000-year-old Torah scroll

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published March 31, 2021

Polish woman who doted over Jewish boy she rescued from the Holocaust dies at 101

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published March 30, 2021

Romanian man arrested for allegedly threatening to throw Jewish actress ‘into a gas chamber’

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published March 30, 2021
Workers knead dough at the Tiferet Hamatzot factory in Dnepro, Ukraine, Dec. 8, 2014. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

Jews in former Soviet Union eat pounds of matzah per person — the most in the world — every year. Here’s why.

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published March 26, 2021

Israeli cargo ship hit by missile near Yemen in suspected Iranian attack

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published March 26, 2021

UK professor may have committed hate crime when he called Jewish students ‘pawns’ of Israel, police say

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published March 25, 2021

Germany enacts law favoring naturalization for descendants of ex-citizens who fled Nazis

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published March 25, 2021

European intellectuals launch magazine on European Jewry’s population ‘crisis’

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published March 23, 2021
Boris Spiegel speaks during a meeting of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation in Yaroslavl, Russia on Nov. 28, 2011. (Public Chamber of the Yaroslavl Region)

Russian-Jewish billionaire and communal funder arrested for alleged bribes

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published March 23, 2021

Pregnant Orthodox woman assaulted in London

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published March 22, 2021
Pedestrians walk past the McDonald's restaurant on Piazza Re di Roma in Rome, Italy in 2015. (Google Street View)

Food delivery man goes on anti-Semitic rant and stabs a man who protests his speech

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published March 22, 2021

Central Asian Mountain Jews try to preserve centuries-old Passover traditions

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published March 19, 2021

Palestinian rioting with Israeli troops in West Bank leaves 1 demonstrator dead

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published March 19, 2021

Vienna threatens libel suit against Rothschild scion who said city extends Nazi theft

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published March 19, 2021

Iraq’s last Jewish doctor dies of heart failure at 60

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published March 19, 2021
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Meet the 27-year-old Israeli-Dutch Jew who just led a new progressive party into the Dutch parliament

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published March 18, 2021
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The latest ‘Lucky Jew’ figurines in Poland: Scented candles that are ‘good for financial success’

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published March 15, 2021
Yehuda Meshi Zahav, left, chairman of the Zaka rescue service, receives a certificate of appreciation in 2006 from U.S. Ambassador to Israel Richard Jones. (Embassy of the United States) 

Zaka founder Rabbi Yehuda Meshi-Zahav accused of molesting minors

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published March 12, 2021
Jewish Festival

In Germany, COVID-19 postpones the revival of the Jewish Carnival tradition that the Nazis tried to end

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published March 10, 2021
Betty Grebenschikoff, left, reunites with Ana María Wahrenberg on a Zoom call. Both Holocaust survivors are now 91. (Courtesy of USC Shoah Foundation)

Florida Holocaust survivor reunited with childhood friend 80 years after losing contact

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published March 10, 2021

In Moldova, a rabbi helps save a life and scores matzah for his community

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published March 5, 2021
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In Eastern Europe, historic synagogues are sold for the price of a used car

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published March 5, 2021

Leaders of Austria and Denmark visit Israel to work jointly on vaccinations

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published March 4, 2021

International Criminal Court launches war crimes investigation of Israelis and Palestinian terrorists

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published March 3, 2021

Nearly 200 US and UK scholars back British lecturer who called Jewish students ‘pawns’ of Israel

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published February 26, 2021

Hitler as Haman? An Amsterdam museum holds a relic of that post-Holocaust Purim tradition.

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published February 25, 2021

The inspiring story of the Dutch February Strike, Europe’s first organized civilian protest against the Nazis

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published February 25, 2021
Lucy Shteyn wears an electronic bracelet under house arrest at her home in Moscow, Russia, Feb. 14, 2021. (Courtesy of Shteyn)

Why the anti-Putin protest movement divides Russian Jews

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published February 23, 2021
Ronit Palache holds the Sondey brand of jodenkoeken in Amsterdam, Feb. 22, 2021. That brand has not changed the cookie’s name. (Palache)

‘Jew cookies’ are a Dutch dessert staple. They’re getting a new name — and Dutch Jews are confused.

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published February 22, 2021
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Torah scroll back in Jewish hands after 80 years hidden from the Nazis

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published February 19, 2021

In Britain, Jews are leading the fight against the oppression of China’s Uighur Muslims

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published February 18, 2021

ADL singles out Poland, Hungary, Russia and British Labour Party in Europe anti-Semitism report

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published February 17, 2021
Moise Katumbi speaks at the European Jewish Association’s Jerusalem Day gala in Brussels, Belgium, June 4, 2016. (Courtesy of the European Jewish Association)

A Holocaust refugee’s son is one of the most powerful politicians in Congo

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published February 17, 2021
Beate and Serge Klarsfeld pose before receiving an award from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, April 29, 2019. (Ron Kampeas)

Son of France’s best-known Holocaust survivor equates lamb at slaughterhouse to Jew at gas chamber

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published February 12, 2021
A girl smiles upon arriving from Ethiopia as her mother kisses the ground at Ben Gurion Airport in Israel on Feb. 12, 2021. (Courtesy of ICEJ)

Israel briefly reopens Ben Gurion Airport for 302 immigrants from Ethiopia

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published February 12, 2021
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Holocaust survivor and her rabbi son punched on London bus

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published February 12, 2021

Guardian columnist says he was fired because of ‘joke’ about US aid to Israel

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published February 11, 2021

Polish court rules that historians must apologize for part of Holocaust pogrom research

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published February 9, 2021
Jewish Fraternity Swatsika

Swastikas painted in front of California campus’ Jewish fraternity house

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published February 7, 2021

Former secretary at Nazi death camp, 95, to stand trial for accessory to murder

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published February 7, 2021
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Impeachment trial to pause for Shabbat after Trump’s lawyer requests accommodation

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published February 7, 2021

Palestinians clear major technical hurdle in push for International Criminal Court war crimes trial for Israelis

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published February 5, 2021

French chief rabbi clashes with fellow communal leaders in debate over France’s Jewish future

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published February 5, 2021

Jewish lawmaker starts impeachment push against Ukraine’s Jewish president

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published February 4, 2021

Jeremy Corbyn’s brother detained for flyer equating COVID-19 vaccines to Auschwitz

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published February 4, 2021
Marloes Sonnenveld, right, with her brother and mother in Rosh Hanikra, Israel, January 2021. (Kan) 

Holocaust survivor wants Israel to grant residency to his rescuer’s Dutch great-granddaughter

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published February 2, 2021

Jewish baker iced out of Dutch Muslim political party — over her X-rated cakes

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published February 2, 2021
Johan Heldenbergh co-stars with Jessica Chastain as Jan Zabinski in "The Zookeeper's Wife." (Anne Marie Fox/Focus Features)

Daughter of couple who hid Jews at Warsaw Zoo dies

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published February 1, 2021

Kosovo to open embassy in Jerusalem as Israel recognizes the Balkan nation

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published February 1, 2021
Valdas Rakutis walks into the Seimas building in Vilnius, Lithuania on Nov. 24, 2020. (Wikimedia Commons/Sofija Vytautaitė)  

Lithuanian lawmaker who blamed Jews for Holocaust quits parliament’s memorial commission

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published January 31, 2021

In Holocaust memorial day speech, Lithuanian lawmaker says Jews and communists share blame

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published January 27, 2021

In first, Luxembourg offers $1.2 million in symbolic compensation to noncitizen Holocaust victims

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published January 27, 2021
10 sets of tefillin that the Shem Olam Holocaust museum said were found in Warsaw, Poland. (Courtesy of Shem Olam Faith & the Holocaust Institute for Education, Documentation & Research)

Israeli Holocaust museum under fire for allegedly smuggling artifacts out of Warsaw

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published January 26, 2021

In Amsterdam, the personal card of every Holocaust victim returns to Jewish hands

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published January 25, 2021

For centuries, Jews thrived in Khujand, Tajikistan. Now the city’s last Jew has died.

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published January 22, 2021
David "Dugo" Leitner, left, meets Israeli President Reuven Rivlin to have falafel together in Jerusalem, Jan. 17, 2019. (Mark Neiman/GPO)

Holocaust survivor turns falafel into symbol of Jewish resilience

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published January 22, 2021
A man wearing a fake hooked nose carries a sign warning not to "tell the the truth about the Jew" at the annual procession of the carnival in Aalst, Belgium, Feb. 23, 2020. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

COVID-19 comment spurs an anti-Semitism complaint filed against head of Belgium’s Jew-mocking Aalst carnival

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published January 22, 2021
A poster of a Jew eating Uncle Sam that was used to advertise a session at the 2016 World Social Forum in Canada. (NGO Monitor)

Israel boycott activists to teach on anti-Semitism at international social justice summit

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published January 22, 2021

A Dutch Jewish cemetery has become a Black pilgrimage site

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published January 20, 2021

In Azerbaijan, patriotic Jewish soldiers are poster children of the war with Armenia

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published January 19, 2021

Dutch panel picks author accused of anti-Semitism as keynote speaker for Holocaust memorial commemoration

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published January 19, 2021
Matisyahu speaks at Le Poisson Rouge in New York City, Jan. 8, 2016. (Courtesy of Amir Norman) 

Spanish court acquits 8 Israel boycott supporters who wanted Matisyahu disinvited from festival

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published January 19, 2021
A sign at the entrance to the village of Malinowo, Poland. (Google Maps)  

Polish Holocaust scholars sued for suggesting mayor who saved a Jew helped kill 22 others

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published January 18, 2021

British Jews feel more welcome, optimistic in 1st major poll after Corbyn replacement

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published January 18, 2021
A flag map of the Middle East inside an UNRWA-produced textbook shows a blank space on Israel's territory. (IMPACT-se)

UN aid agency for Palestinians says it mistakenly gave out textbooks calling for jihad

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published January 18, 2021

In this original Holocaust film, a Jewish inmate makes up a language to survive

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published January 15, 2021
Complete Nuremberg Trials recordings online for the first time

Complete Nuremberg Trials recordings online for the first time

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published January 15, 2021

Jewish community shaped by the Inquisition opens Portugal’s first Holocaust museum

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published January 13, 2021

French Jews, political leaders mark 6 years since Hyper Cacher killings

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published January 11, 2021

Food courier in France refuses to serve Jews, 2 kosher restaurant owners say

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published January 11, 2021

In Germany, the rise of anti-Semitism and other extremism has Jews questioning their future

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published January 8, 2021

France gives $10M to Palestinian group that promotes Israel boycott

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published January 3, 2021

In Ukraine, hundreds march with torches in annual tribute to Nazi collaborator

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published January 3, 2021

Jonathan Pollard arrives in Israel 35 years after arrest for spying

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published December 30, 2020

Bram van der Vlugt, 86, was a Holocaust survivor who played Santa Claus on Dutch TV

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published December 22, 2020

Israeli mother of 6 found dead in West Bank woods in suspected terrorist attack

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published December 21, 2020

Miss France beauty pageant runner-up gets anti-Semitic hate online after saying her father is Israeli

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published December 20, 2020

Paris area Jewish family assaulted after playing Hebrew-language songs in their car

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published December 18, 2020

Popular Ukrainian mayor Gennady Kernes survived a sniper attack but succumbed to COVID

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published December 18, 2020

Hungary calls EU’s ruling against kosher slaughter a ‘disgrace’

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published December 18, 2020

The Auschwitz museum director prefers to stay out of controversial debates. But he’s worried about this one in Israel.

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published December 18, 2020

EU court okays Belgian bans on ritual slaughter, dealing major blow to Jewish, Muslim advocates

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published December 17, 2020

Paris court convicts 4 of terrorism for Charlie Hebdo and kosher store murders in 2015

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published December 16, 2020

Scarlett Johansson criticized for being a Zionist after supporting jailed human rights workers in Egypt

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published December 13, 2020
Women celebrate Rosh Chodesh el Banat in Jerusalem, December 2019. (Aliza Lavie) 

Israelis want to bring back North African Jewry’s feminist Hanukkah tradition

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published December 10, 2020

EU invites all member states to adopt definition of anti-Semitism that includes Israel hatred

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published December 3, 2020

22% of hate crimes in Europe in 2019 were against Jews, report shows

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published November 25, 2020

‘Borat’ ads featuring Sacha Baron Cohen wearing ‘Allah’ ring (and little else) anger Paris Muslims

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published November 6, 2020
A view of the Temple Mount and Al Haram Al Sharif in Jerusalem, Israel. (Andrew Shiva/Wikimedia Commons)  

UN resolution again ignores Jewish ties to Temple Mount

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published November 5, 2020

Abortion protests are rocking Poland. It’s putting long-simmering Jewish communal conflict into the spotlight.

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published November 4, 2020

After Vienna shooting, European rabbis want ‘much more control’ of mosques

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published November 3, 2020

Jews from the former Soviet Union have had an outsized tech impact. Israel’s government wants to harness that.

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published October 30, 2020

Labour guilty of “unlawful acts of harassment” against Jews, UK government watchdog says

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published October 29, 2020

Abraham Grossman, 95, fled Germany as a boy but returned as a soldier bearing Jewish insignia

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published October 28, 2020

Tel Aviv University launches academic program to preserve knowledge of Ethiopian Jewish bible

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published October 28, 2020
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