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All content by Cnaan Liphshiz

Polish national team honors Holocaust victim who scored 1st international goal

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published June 7, 2019

Jcrush dating app for Jews leaves 200,000 users’ personal data exposed

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published June 7, 2019
Roque Pugliese and Ivana Pezzoli getting married at the Bova Marina Synagogue in Calabria, Italy on June 4, 2019. (Photo courtesy of Shavei Israel) 

Former Italian synagogue sees 1st Jewish wedding in centuries

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published June 7, 2019

Ukrainian ultranationalists set off smoke grenades outside Jewish community building

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published June 6, 2019

Hungary’s Holocaust museum will address complicity, Jewish managers say

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published June 2, 2019

New York police report near doubling of hate crimes in 2019. Nearly two-thirds are anti-Semitic.

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published May 31, 2019
An illustrative photo of a Jewish wedding. Photo: Justin Oberman/Creative Commons

Israeli rabbinate grants rare permission for divorced woman to marry kohen

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published May 31, 2019

Palestinian terrorist injures 2 Israelis in Jerusalem, shot dead

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published May 31, 2019
Photo: Cheskel Dovid

Holland’s best-known Jewish circumcision pros are breaking the law, Health Ministry says

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published May 30, 2019
Latvian President Egils Levits in Riga in 2013. (Toms Norde/Wikimedia Commons) 

Son of Jewish engineer elected president of Latvia

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published May 29, 2019

This British university provides an island of tolerance for Jewish students amid rising anti-Semitism

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published May 28, 2019

Drunk students smashed headstones at a French Jewish cemetery. Police insist it wasn’t anti-Semitic.

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published May 27, 2019

Kiev synagogue evacuated following bomb threat

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published May 27, 2019

UK politician accused of promoting anti-Semitism in US wins European Parliament elections

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published May 27, 2019

Undone by Brexit, Theresa May is still a ‘true friend’ to Britain’s Jews

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published May 24, 2019

Fires consume iconic memorial woods for Holocaust victims near Jerusalem

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published May 24, 2019

Paris Uber driver says he was beaten, robbed because of his Jewish name

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published May 24, 2019

Following May resignation, British Jews thank her for being a ‘true friend’

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published May 24, 2019

23-year-old Jewish woman found dead in Moscow

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published May 22, 2019

Remains of over 1,000 Holocaust victims uncovered during construction work reburied in Belarus

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published May 22, 2019

In Belarus, Jews helped build a restaurant next to Stalin-era graves. Protests against it have turned anti-Semitic.

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published May 21, 2019

April saw major drop in terror attacks and no Israelis killed. Then came May.

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published May 17, 2019

Williams College bypasses student’s refusal to register pro-Israel group

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published May 17, 2019

Stabbing of Jewish woman in Sweden ‘not about religion,’ suspect’s mom says

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published May 17, 2019
Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat, helped thousands of Jews flee Europe during World War II. (Wikimedia Commons)

The son of Holocaust hero Chiune Sugihara is setting the record straight about his father’s story

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published May 16, 2019

Suspected stabber of Jewish woman in Sweden nabbed in Denmark

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published May 15, 2019

US anti-Semitism envoy calls Europe’s kosher meat bans ‘forced expulsion’ for Jews

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published May 14, 2019

A Jewish woman’s stabbing in Sweden shocks her tiny community

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published May 14, 2019

Putin advisor denies floating anti-Semitic conspiracy theory about Ukraine’s Jewish president

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published May 8, 2019

FBI arrest man suspected of threatening conservative pundit Ben Shapiro

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published May 3, 2019

Polish bishop delivers thinly-veiled anti-Semitic sermon

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published May 3, 2019
U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman with prominent New Jersey Holocaust survivor Ed Mosberg at the March of the Living at Auschwitz-Birkenau on May 2, 2019. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

NJ Holocaust survivor says Israeli minister who made anti-Polish remarks a ‘stupid idiot’

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published May 2, 2019
French Jews at the memorial march for Jewish murder victim Mireille Knoll in Paris, March 28, 2018. Photo: Cnaan Liphshiz

French Jews say officials are reluctant to call out anti-Semitism by Muslims

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published May 1, 2019

Anti-Semitism promoted by governments on 3 continents, report finds

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published May 1, 2019

Rabbi, wife beat up in robbery featuring anti-Semitism in Kenya

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published April 24, 2019
Bodies of murdered Jews from Hungary being burned at Auschwitz in 1944. (Alberto Errera/Auschwitz Memorial and Museum)

Dutch Holocaust museum ditches Auschwitz pictures from exhibitions

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published April 22, 2019
Volodymyr Zelensky, a popular comedian, is the likely winner in presidential elections in Ukraine. (Courtesy photo)

Ukraine to become first country outside Israel whose president and PM are both Jewish

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published April 21, 2019
Britain's Labour Party included bread in a Passover greeting on Twitter. Image: Screenshot from Twitter

UK Labour Party makes a non-kosher mistake in Passover greeting

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published April 19, 2019

Hamas and Israel exchange fire in threat to fragile truce

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published April 19, 2019

Court sides with Israel in battle over Kafka archive

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published April 19, 2019

Israel national library buys rare Korea War Haggadah from 1952

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published April 19, 2019

Ancient murals discovered inside former synagogue in Sweden

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published April 19, 2019

Emmanuel Macron meets with Netanyahu rival Yair Lapid days before Israeli elections

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published April 5, 2019

Israel activist assaulted near anti-Israel rally in Amsterdam by men yelling ‘Jew’

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published April 5, 2019
Columbia University (Wikimedia Commons) 

Columbia U. professor says Israel’s is almost identical to Islamic State

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published April 5, 2019
The aftermath of vandalism at the Jewish cemetery of Husi, Romania in April 2019. (Courtesy of Fedrom)

Dozens of headstones smashed at fire-ravaged Jewish cemetery in Romania

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published April 4, 2019

Polish border police petitioned to bar Holocaust denier from entering country

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published April 3, 2019
A boy playing soccer at the entrance to the former concentration camp known as the Seventh Fort in Kaunas, Lithuania, on July 12, 2016. (JTA/Cnaan Liphshiz)

Lithuania’s genocide studies center engages in Holocaust denial, local Jews say

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published April 3, 2019

For Israelis abroad, elections start with a scramble for flight tickets

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published April 2, 2019

Dutch Israel boycott supporter triggers Israeli wine shopping craze

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published March 26, 2019

Auschwitz museum wants visitors to stop doing balance tricks on tracks leading into the camp

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published March 20, 2019

Holocaust denier named a congressional candidate in Spain

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published March 20, 2019
Esther Voet is the editor in chief of the Nieuw Israëlietisch Weekblad. (Courtesy of NIW)

Jewish journalist’s Purim prank about fleeing anti-Semitism shocks Holland

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published March 19, 2019

British Labour lawmaker apologizes for posting anti-Semitic caricature

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published March 15, 2019

Dozens of Hamas targets struck in response to rockets on

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published March 15, 2019

Pitzer College president says he’ll ignore faculty’s vote to end Haifa study program

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published March 15, 2019

New Zealand Jews ‘sickened, devastated’ by deadly mosque shootings

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published March 15, 2019

Women of the Wall activists shoved, spat on at 30th anniversary event

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published March 8, 2019

Belgium Jewish museum killer, accomplice found guilty and face life in prison

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published March 7, 2019
A parade float at the Aalst Carnaval in Belgium featuring caricatures of Orthodox Jews atop money bags, March 3, 2019. (Courtesy of FJO)

Belgian mayor defends carnival float featuring Jews with money and a rat

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published March 5, 2019

Belgian carnival party features puppets of grinning Jews with a rat and money bags

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published March 4, 2019

In Hungary and Poland, Jews accuse their own communal leaders of playing the anti-Semitism card to avoid scrutiny

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published March 1, 2019

Otto Warmbier’s parents slam Trump’s ‘lavish praise’ for Kim Jong Un

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published March 1, 2019

US should ‘call out Netanyahu’s corruption,’ Sen. Elizabeth Warren says

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published March 1, 2019

Ilhan Omar questions ‘foreign allegiance’ during talk on Israel, anti-Semitism

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published March 1, 2019

French city’s rabbi says half of his congregants have left over anti-Semitism

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published March 1, 2019

Argentine judge, spy chief jailed over AMIA bombing cover up

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published March 1, 2019

Sheldon Adelson treated for cancer, his firm says

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published March 1, 2019

Halal, kosher meat cannot be labeled organic, EU court rules

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published February 28, 2019

Key Labour politician says the British party’s ‘too apologetic’ on anti-Semitism

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published February 27, 2019

Gaza teenager killed during border riots, Palestinians say

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published February 22, 2019

Former VP Spiro Agnew in 1980 asked Saudi leader for money to fight US ‘Zionists’

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published February 22, 2019
The Rumbach Street Synagogue in Budapest. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Scammers steal $437k from Hungarian Jews’ synagogue renovation project

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published February 22, 2019

Hundreds of bodies discovered at former Jewish ghetto of Brest, Belarus

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published February 21, 2019

President Macron says France will adopt definition of anti-Semitism mentioning Israel

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published February 20, 2019

British lawmaker blames Israel for Labour party’s split, then apologizes

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published February 20, 2019

Reports about Jewish cemetery’s desecration in Poland false, officials say

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published February 20, 2019

7 Labour lawmakers quit British party, some over anti-Semitism

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published February 18, 2019
Heidi Fishman holding up an op-ed she wrote about her family’s rescue from the Holocaust using a Paraguayan passport. (Courtesy of Fishman)

Researchers unlock the mystery of Polish diplomats who rescued Jews

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published February 15, 2019

Fareed Zakaria says Muslims should be ‘thoughtful’ when speaking about Israel

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published February 15, 2019

Despite star power, boycotting Israel has little appeal in the UK

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published January 30, 2019

Connecticut college professor fired for giving colleagues Nazi salute

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published January 25, 2019

UJA-Federation of NY to lend $5m to unpaid federal employees

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published January 25, 2019
The Evangelical Reformed Church, Vilnius, Lithuania. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Lithuanian church removes Jewish headstones used as stairs

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published January 24, 2019

Bill taxing restitution money would strip tiny Czech Jewish community of $2 million

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published January 24, 2019

Security guard thwarted attack on Jewish Agency representative in Paris

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published January 23, 2019

Europe’s Jews have a bleak future, community leaders say

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published January 23, 2019

Jewish journalist who covered Belgium’s ritual slaughter ban enters politics to end it

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published January 22, 2019

Danes downplay seriousness of physical assaults on Jews

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published January 22, 2019
The ZAKA Divers Unit uses a special sonar device and integrated underwater camera to try to locate Holocaust victims’ bones from teh Danube River in Budapest, Hungary on Jan. 15, 2019. (Courtesy/ZAKA)

In Hungary, a Jewish community political fight taints effort to bury Holocaust victims

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published January 21, 2019

Stones hurled into central synagogue in Sofia, Bulgaria

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published January 20, 2019

Former Nazi camp in Holland to host event for refugees

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published January 20, 2019

Terrorist attacks in Israel decrease sharply despite 3 deaths

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published January 18, 2019

Debbie Wasserman Schultz breaks with Women’s March over anti-Semitism ‘failures’

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published January 18, 2019

Theresa May survives no-confidence vote amid lawmakers’ warnings about a Jeremy Corbyn premiership

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published January 16, 2019

Lithuanian judge postpones trial tied to deceased Nazi collaborator

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published January 16, 2019

Palestinian reported killed amid mass riots along Gaza border

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published January 11, 2019

Defendant at Belgian Jewish museum killings trial inventing conspiracies, Jews say

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published January 11, 2019

EU gives nearly $1 million to mapping Jewish cemeteries

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published January 11, 2019

Deported Nazi camp guard Jakiw Palij died in Germany

Cnaan Liphshiz
Published January 11, 2019
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