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

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All content by Cnaan Liphshiz

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette gives Pulitzer monetary award to targeted synagogue

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published September 6, 2019

Maimonides’ ‘Mishneh Torah’ translated into Russian

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published September 2, 2019

In a first, Israel to repatriate Jewish sex offender to Yemen

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published August 30, 2019

Jeffrey Epstein criminal case is closed

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published August 30, 2019

2nd assault this week against Orthodox Jewish man reported in Crown Heights

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Published August 30, 2019

British composer dies with his wife and infant daughter in plane crash

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Published August 30, 2019
German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer attending a cabinet meeting in Munich, Germany on April 11, 2013. (Wikimedia Commons/Michael Lucan)

Germany facilitates citizenship for families that fled Nazi regime

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Published August 30, 2019

5 men tell Hungarian cantor and his wife they ‘belong in the gas chamber’

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Published August 30, 2019

Wife of Dutch-Jewish businessman who went missing in Nairobi is arrested

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published August 30, 2019
Thousands of demonstrators expressing support for Hezbollah in Beirut, Lebanon on Dec. 10, 2006. (Wikimedia Commons) 

Treasury blacklists Lebanese bank allegedly funding Hezbollah

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published August 30, 2019

Moldova’s Jews feel an anti-Semitic backlash after a corrupt Jewish politician flees to Israel

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published August 29, 2019

Citing Israel, French Freemasons warn members not to attend Jewish community events

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Published August 29, 2019
Dutch Chief Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs at Westerbork Memorial Center, May 14, 2017. Photo: Cnaan Liphshiz

Dutch Holocaust museum drops claims that Jews threatened to kill its former director

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published August 28, 2019

Israel airstrike in Iraq is 1st in 4 decades

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Published August 23, 2019

Left-wing anti-Semitism has had British Jews debating loyalty for years

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Published August 22, 2019

Netanyahu addresses Nazi collaborators during Holocaust speech in Ukraine

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Published August 20, 2019
Nefesh B’Nefesh Co-Founders, Rabbi Yehoshua Fass and Tony Gelbart, and Major General (ret.) Yoav Galant, Minister of Aliyah and Integration with 41 future Lone Soldiers who arrived on a flight of 242 niew immigrants from Noth America on Aug. 14, 2019. Photo: Shahar Azran 

Immigration to Israel up by nearly 30% thanks to Russian speakers

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Published August 19, 2019

Israel has been barring lawmakers of friendly nations for years (just not from the US)

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Published August 15, 2019
An image from the Norwegian public broadcaster NRK's cartoon featuring the word "Jewish swine" from July 2, 2019. Image: NRK Satiriks

Norway’s public broadcaster apologizes for ‘Jewish swine’ cartoon

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Published August 13, 2019

In Hungary, some left-wing Jews are ready to work with a far-right party led by a former neo-Nazi

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published August 12, 2019

A Florida pastor called for Sarah Silverman’s death

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Published August 9, 2019

Author David Grossman eulogizes settler teen who was murdered hugging his book

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Published August 9, 2019

Polish chief rabbi spurns government invite to ceremony honoring WWII nationalists

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Published August 7, 2019

Lithuanian Jews are split over the closing of only functioning synagogue in Vilnius

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published August 7, 2019

Gymnast Agnes Keleti survived the Holocaust to win 10 Olympic medals. At 98, she’s as feisty as ever.

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Published August 6, 2019

Belgian editor defends publication of column saying Jews have ‘ugly noses’

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Published August 6, 2019
Yair Hoffman, left, and Israel Zeira. (Courtesy of Be'Emunah) 

Israeli chess prodigy sits out championships set on Yom Kippur, Tisha b’Av

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published August 2, 2019

2,300 Jewish athletes gather in Budapest for European Maccabi Games

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Published July 30, 2019

Switzerland, the Netherlands suspend funding for UN aid agency for Palestinians over graft scandal

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published July 30, 2019

In Eastern Europe, Holocaust museums are missing from key historical sites

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Published July 29, 2019

A UN forum only singles out Israel, saying it violated women’s and human rights

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Published July 26, 2019

French authorities rescind ban on Israeli flag during Strasbourg soccer match

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Published July 26, 2019

Abbas says the the Palestinian Authority will ‘sever all ties’ with Israel

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published July 26, 2019

Lithuania’s capital votes to rename street honoring anti-Semitic Nazi collaborator

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published July 25, 2019
Abraham Sutzkever, right, before World War II in Vilnius, Lithuania. (Courtesy photo)

How poetry literally saved the life of a famed Yiddish writer

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published July 24, 2019

5 Jewish things to know about Boris Johnson

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Published July 23, 2019

British right-wing pundit Katie Hopkins earns scorn for her attacks on Muslims — and some Jewish support

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published July 22, 2019

Man killed outside Washington detention center cites ‘concentration camp’ debate in manifesto

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Published July 19, 2019

Germany to compensate 8,000 Israel Holocaust survivors from Romania

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published July 19, 2019

Natalie Portman recalls Anne Frank in post about immigration enforcement

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published July 19, 2019
An image from the Norwegian public broadcaster NRK's cartoon featuring the word 'Jewish swine' from July 2, 2019. (NRK Satiriks) 

Norway’s state broadcaster airs ‘Jewish swine’ cartoon

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published July 19, 2019

Haredi man sues Orlando-area McDonald’s for not hiring him due to his beard

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published July 19, 2019

A Jewish family sold this Kandinsky painting to survive the Nazis. Amsterdam is keeping it anyway.

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published July 18, 2019

Citing sensitivity to Jews, Labour demotes member who compared Corbyn to Nazi ‘bunker mentality’

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published July 18, 2019

Police identify 3 men who sprayed NJ synagogue worshippers with water guns

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published July 18, 2019

Oregon passes law saying schools must teach the Holocaust

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published July 17, 2019

Amsterdam celebrity tour guide advises left-wing parties to kick out some Jews

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published July 17, 2019

JDC aiding Jews affected by munitions blast in Kazakhstan

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published July 17, 2019

Portugal okays 10,000 requests for citizenship by descendants of Sephardic Jews

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published July 17, 2019

67 Labour lawmaker accuse Corbyn of giving the party a legacy of anti-Semitism

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published July 17, 2019
Ehud Barak, a former prime minister of Israel, announces the establishment of a new political party that he will lead, in Tel Aviv, June 26, 2019. (Flash 90)

Photos show Ehud Barak outside sex offender Jeffery Epstein’s home in 2016

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published July 17, 2019

Israeli education minister walks back support for conversion ‘therapy’

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published July 17, 2019

Hamas official calls on Palestinians abroad to kill Jews

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published July 15, 2019
Charles Levin as a mohel in a 1993 episode of "Seinfeld." (Screenshot from YouTube)

Remains believed to be from actor Charles Levin of ‘Seinfeld’ fame found in Oregon

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published July 15, 2019
Daniel Radcliffe attends the 2019 WarnerMedia Upfront at One Penn Plaza on May 15, 2019 in New York City. Photo: Taylor Hill/FilmMagic

‘Harry Potter’ star cries over police’s anti-Semitic handling of his great-grandfather

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published July 15, 2019

New Zealand lawmaker says Jesus’ mom was ‘Palestinian refugee’

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published July 15, 2019

Trump cites Israel in defending his call for Democrat congresswomen to ‘go back’ to their countries

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published July 15, 2019

Volunteers find in N.C. body of rabbi who drowned rescuing students

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published July 15, 2019

Netherlands Jewish leader tortured and robbed at home by 4 men

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published July 12, 2019

Jeffrey Epstein bankrolled Ehud Barak’s high-tech investment

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published July 12, 2019
Vice President Mike Pence and Second Lady Karen Pence are greeted by Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein at the Chabad synagogue in Poway, California on July 11, 2019. (Josh Dawsey/Washington Post/Pool) 

Vice President Mike Pence visits Poway synagogue

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published July 12, 2019

All dogs are bad and their owners accursed, Israeli city’s rabbis rule

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published July 12, 2019

Jewish Museum Munich calls Israel’s Negev forests ‘settlement policy,’ sparking outcry

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published July 12, 2019

BBC airs expose accusing Jeremy Corbyn’s team of shielding anti-Semites

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published July 10, 2019

Madonna can sing at Eurovision 2020 despite her Palestinian flag stunt, Rotterdam says

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published July 9, 2019

In North Macedonia, unearthed headstones shed new light on community the Nazis destroyed

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published July 8, 2019
Pieter van Oordt, right, with his brother Roger at the Israel Products Center in Nijkerk, the Netherlands, Feb. 19, 2016. (Cnaan Liphshiz) 

Dutch Christians rebuff officials seeking labeling of Israeli settlement goods

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published July 5, 2019
Thousands of Jews and visitors from around the world have visited the gravesite of the Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, to commemorate the 25th anniversary of his passing, July 5, 2019. Photo: Mark Abramson/Chabad.org

50,000 flock to Lubavitcher Rebbe’s grave in New York to mark 25th anniversary of his death

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published July 5, 2019

The new Netflix show ‘Family Business’ is a French-Jewish version of ‘Breaking Bad’

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published July 5, 2019
Rabbi Michael Schudrich and Jonathan Ornstein climbing the fence of the barricaded Izaak Synagogue in Krakow, Poland on July 4, 2019. (Shimon Briman) 

Chief Polish rabbi climbs fence of barricaded Krakow synagogue

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published July 4, 2019

41 percent of young European Jews have considered emigrating due to anti-Semitism

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published July 4, 2019

A clash between Jews in Krakow highlights growing acceptance of Chabad in Europe

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published July 3, 2019
Abbas Araghchi, political deputy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran, during a meeting in Vienna on June 28, 2019. Photo by Alex Halada / AFP

Iran in talks to salvage nuclear deal

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published June 28, 2019

RBG donates $9,000 to Israeli schools teaching Arabic and Hebrew

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Published June 28, 2019

Palestinian shot dead in eastern Jerusalem rioting

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published June 28, 2019

When elders reveal they are Jewish on their deathbeds, their children often return to Judaism

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published June 27, 2019

Labour readmits key Corbyn ally who said British party is too apologetic on anti-Semitism

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published June 26, 2019

Dutch railways to compensate Holocaust survivors it helped transport

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published June 26, 2019

A Dutch rapper said she chose the stage name ‘Anne Frank’ as a tribute. Turns out she’s anti-Semitic.

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published June 26, 2019
Yoskeh and Nurit Marmurstein enjoy winter blossoms in Alumum, Israel, in 2012. Nurit, right, chose to go to Switzerland to have an assisted suicide. (Courtesy of Yoskeh Marmurstein)

How a religious Jewish farmer became a promoter of assisted suicide in Israel

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published June 24, 2019

Metal ball that injured Paris woman was dropped by a child, not an anti-Semite, says watchdog group

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published June 21, 2019
King David High School (Wikimedia Commons)

Top-ranked British Jewish high school labeled ‘inadequate’ over gender segregation

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published June 21, 2019
A view of Gothenburg, Sweden. (Wikimedia Commons) 

Chabad couple made to pay $100k for home schooling their children in Sweden

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published June 21, 2019
Edward Mosberg holding a Torah scroll during March of the Living in 2017 at the former death camp Auschwitz in Poland. Courtesy of From the Depths.

Holocaust survivor invites Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to tour Auschwitz with him

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published June 21, 2019

This mother of 4 is the EU’s ‘indefatigable heroine’ in the fight against anti-Semitism

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published June 18, 2019

Germany is accused of downplaying anti-Semitic attacks by Muslims

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published June 14, 2019
The 21st annual Tel Aviv Pride Parade drew close to 250,000 participants on June 14, 2019. Photo: Laura E. Adkins 

Tel Aviv Pride Parade draws 250,000 participants

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published June 14, 2019

Retaliating for rockets, Israel strikes Hamas naval commando HQ

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published June 14, 2019
Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Hundreds mark 90th birthday of Anne Frank in her birth city of Frankfurt

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published June 13, 2019

Dutch senator apologizes for saying Jews went ‘like lambs’ to gas chambers

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published June 13, 2019

Drowning out jeers, Polish soccer fans applaud Israeli anthem

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published June 12, 2019

Polish soccer association celebrates victory over Israeli team as a ‘pogrom’

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published June 12, 2019

Jews went like ‘meek lambs to gas chambers,’ new Dutch senator says

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published June 11, 2019

Far-right cell planned to target annual Jewish event in Paris, report says

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published June 11, 2019
The Romi Goldmuntz Synagogue in Antwerp (Google Street View) 

Non-Jewish Arab wearing kippah and carrying knives stopped in attempt to enter Antwerp synagogue

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published June 11, 2019

Amid unrest, Moldova says it will move its embassy to Jerusalem

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published June 11, 2019

A famed French-Jewish philosopher is afraid to leave his home

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published June 11, 2019
Latifa Ibn Ziaten and CRIF President Roger Cukierman at the CRIF national convention in Paris, Nov. 16, 2014. Photo: Cnaan Liphshiz

Anti-Semitic graffiti found at home of Muslim victim of Toulouse Jewish school killer

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published June 11, 2019

Russian man gets 2.5 years in jail for anti-Semitic graffiti

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published June 7, 2019

Terrorist attacks on Israelis tripled in May

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Published June 7, 2019
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