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All content by Cnaan Liphshiz

Two headstones smashed at Dutch Jewish cemetery

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published December 28, 2014

Jacques Wagner named Brazilian minister of defense

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published December 26, 2014

Kosher restaurant to open in Tokyo

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published December 26, 2014

French police arrest fourth suspect in Creteil rape and robbery

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published December 26, 2014

Child victim of West Bank firebomb attack doing better

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published December 26, 2014

French Jewish students slammed for alleged Bennett snub

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published December 26, 2014

Shots fired at Jewish-owned print shop in Paris

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published December 26, 2014

With French ultimatum, European votes on Palestine recognition gain traction

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published December 23, 2014

Estonia’s kosher food problem yields smartphone solution

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published December 23, 2014

Will Russia’s economic woes burst bubble for Jews?

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published December 22, 2014

Seeing need, Yechiel Eckstein’s Jewish-Christian fellowship gets into aliyah game

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published December 22, 2014

French far-right mayor’s city hall menorah sparks controversy

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published December 19, 2014

Tunisian Jewish leaders endorse secularist’s presidential bid

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published December 19, 2014

Menorah honoring terror victims erected in Sydney

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published December 19, 2014

Amsterdam acting mayor lights Hanukkah candles against intolerance

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published December 19, 2014

Gaza rocket hits Israeli kibuutz

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published December 19, 2014

Research team uses imaging to study Shoah killing sites in Ukraine

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published December 18, 2014

Record-breaking French aliyah dwarfs immigration from North America

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published December 18, 2014

Despite passionate reactions, EU ruling on Hamas is a small legal glitch

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published December 17, 2014

Dieudonne seeks accord with France’s Jewish community

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published December 17, 2014

European Parliament passes resolution favoring Palestinian statehood recognition

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published December 17, 2014

EU court annuls Hamas’ listing on terror blacklist

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published December 17, 2014

Widow sues Antwerp community over husband’s missing headstone

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published December 16, 2014

En route to Lugansk, lies, bribes and high fives

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published December 16, 2014

Spanish imam probed for asking Allah to destroy Jews

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published December 16, 2014

In Lugansk, an icy Ukraine winter tests a war-torn community

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published December 15, 2014

Revisions to Spanish law naturalizing Sephardic Jews make it ‘meaningless’

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published December 14, 2014

Dutch Jewish mayor quits over secretly filmed date with younger man

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published December 12, 2014

French-turned-Israeli comedian Judith Mergui performs in the Old Country

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published December 11, 2014

Spanish university dismantles exhibit misquoting Ariel Sharon

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published December 10, 2014

Israel speeds up aliyah procedures for residents of eastern Ukraine

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published December 10, 2014

Polish court rules Shechitah ban unconstitutional

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published December 10, 2014

Five arrested for threats to attack French synagogue

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published December 9, 2014

Romanian envoy to Armenia recalled over joke deemed anti-Semitic

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published December 9, 2014

Sephardic vogue, Argentine immigrants fueling Jewish revival in Spain

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published December 9, 2014

Vienna to be home of Kindertransport museum

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published December 7, 2014

French Jew who fled lethal hit-and-run gets 5 years

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published December 5, 2014

Knife-wielding Palestinian girl, 14, arrested at checkpoint

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published December 5, 2014

No Belgian recognition for ‘Palestine’ in sight, politicians say

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published December 5, 2014

Hundreds of Ukrainian Jews receive aid packages in Lugansk’s synagogue

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published December 4, 2014

French PM: Creteil rape ‘vile’ proof of the need to fight anti-Semitism

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published December 4, 2014

Report: Belgian government to support recognizing ‘Palestine’

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published December 3, 2014

French parliament backs Palestinian statehood motion

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published December 2, 2014

Police probing possible anti-Semitism in brutal Paris-area break-in

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published December 2, 2014

French parliament passes symbolic motion recognizing Palestine

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published December 2, 2014

Pope meets chief rabbi during official visit to Turkey

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published December 2, 2014

Back in St. Petersburg, former refusenik encourages Jews to emigrate

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published December 1, 2014

French Jewish umbrella CRIF: Don’t protest parliament’s Palestine vote

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published December 1, 2014

Westerbork Holocaust memorial to get WWII-era transport carts

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published December 1, 2014

Anti-Semitism watchdog complains about Romanian mayor’s Hitler haircut

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published November 30, 2014

New Dutch app offers original writings of Anne Frank

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published November 30, 2014

French FM: Recognition of ‘Palestine’ in 2016 if talks fail

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published November 28, 2014

Britain’s Labour Party reiterates objection to Israel boycott

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published November 28, 2014

Peres: Nation-state bill risks religious conflagration

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published November 28, 2014

Budapest Jews split on whistleblowing leader with colorful past

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published November 25, 2014

Recognizing Palestine wouldn’t promote peace, Dutch FM says

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published November 25, 2014

Ukrainian Jewish fighter touted as ‘hero, symbol of resistance’ to Russia

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published November 24, 2014

Ukraine rabbi: U.S. Jews helped us beat Russia’s anti-Semitism propaganda

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published November 19, 2014

In Spain’s Palestine vote, the fine print makes all the difference

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published November 18, 2014

Spanish ruling party: No Palestine recognition without peace talks

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published November 18, 2014

British Jews warned to remain vigilant following Jerusalem, Antwerp attacks

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published November 18, 2014

Spanish mayor issues apology for ‘Jewish dog’ slur

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published November 18, 2014

At Paris confab, French Jews tout their Muslim allies

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published November 17, 2014

French Muslims hold more anti-Semitic views

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published November 16, 2014

Orthodox Jew stabbed in Antwerp

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published November 16, 2014

U.S. envoy on anti-Semitism ‘concerned’ over anti-Semitism in Turkey

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published November 14, 2014

In Lviv, a Holocaust survival story gets lifted from the gutter

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published November 14, 2014

Gaza war caused explosion of online hate speech in Europe, report finds

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published November 14, 2014

CRIF: Recognizing ‘Palestine’ risks worsening anti-Semitism in France

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published November 14, 2014

In France, new chief rabbi embraces change

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published November 13, 2014

Budapest Jewish head alleges shortfall in Dohany ticket sales

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published November 13, 2014

Report: German ambassador to Netherlands to visit graves of SS soldiers

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published November 13, 2014

Russian rabbi slams demand that Jews condemn Ukrainian oligarch

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published November 12, 2014

French convert to Islam with Jewish father dies fighting with ISIS

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published November 12, 2014

Kristallnacht event raising money for Gaza riles Denmark Jewish leader

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published November 10, 2014

In Paris, Jewish teen mobbed, attempted arson at kosher eatery

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published November 10, 2014

Motorists threaten Dutch chief rabbi

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published November 10, 2014

Dutch Protestant Church pulls out of Kristallnacht event over sponsors

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published November 9, 2014

Lviv mayor: France’s anti-Semitism problem bigger than Ukraine’s

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published November 7, 2014

Dempsey: Israel went to extraordinary lengths to avoid civilian deaths in Gaza

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published November 7, 2014

‘Palestine’ entry pulled from French firm’s websites that omitted Israel

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published November 7, 2014

Israeli chief rabbi tells Jews to stay away from Temple Mount

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published November 7, 2014

Israel’s neighborhood was never riskier, says E.U. foreign policy chief

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published November 7, 2014

Ex-Hungarian Jewish leader’s government gig sparks talk of betrayal

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published November 6, 2014

Shmuel Azimov, Chabad leader in Paris, dies

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published November 6, 2014

Tunisian Islamists protest French-Jewish philosopher’s visit

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published November 5, 2014

Anti-Semitic imam barred from attending Islamic conference in Belgium

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published November 5, 2014

Ancient Russian synagogues rededicated

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published November 4, 2014

Study analyzing ethnicity of Russia’s wealthiest condemned for singling out Jews

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published November 3, 2014

Volunteers clean Vienna Jewish cemetery on Christian holiday

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published November 2, 2014

Eight Palestinians reported injured in Jerusalem-area clashes

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published October 31, 2014

British Jewish school flunks tolerance test

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published October 31, 2014

Jewish group boycotts Brussels Jewish film festival over Israeli sponsorship

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published October 31, 2014

Vietnam’s first Israeli film festival to celebrate 20 years of diplomatic relations

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published October 31, 2014

Vietnam’s first Israeli film festival to celebrate 20 years of diplomatic relations

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published October 31, 2014

Court strips Dieudonne of damages for cancellation of anti-Semitic show

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published October 31, 2014

Ukrainian Jews satisfied with far-right’s crash in elections  

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published October 31, 2014

Jerusalem activist recovering from shooting, doctors say

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published October 31, 2014

British Jewish school flunks test triggered by claims on classroom Islamism

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published October 31, 2014

In Holocaust restitution affair, Austrian official’s admission may undermine state’s case

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published October 30, 2014
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