Cnaan Liphshiz Archives - Page 8 of 28

Dutch TV denies spoof of Israeli Eurovision song was anti-Semitic

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Published May 22, 2018

This activist trolls anti-Israel protesters on a daily basis in Amsterdam

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Published May 18, 2018

Suburban Paris synagogue nixes chief rabbi event amid fear of violence over Gaza

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Published May 16, 2018

How Israel overcame politics in winning the Eurovision song contest

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Published May 14, 2018

Benjamin Netanyahu had a very, very good week

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Published May 11, 2018

Prominent Ukrainian rabbi inaugurates prayer for Trump’s success

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Published May 10, 2018

Why a gory Holocaust film is a blockbuster in Russia

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Published May 10, 2018

A Dutch mosque says it converted a Holocaust survivor to Islam. Local Jews are skeptical.

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Published May 9, 2018

Outside London, British Jewry’s first communal farm in decades takes root

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Published May 3, 2018

Danish ruling party risks split over looming vote on circumcision

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Published May 2, 2018

Congressmen’s letter on Ukraine anti-Semitism may be Russian conspiracy, Jewish leader suggests

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Published May 2, 2018

This British Jewish school has mostly Muslim students

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Published April 30, 2018

Nazi symbols, salutes on display at Ukrainian nationalist march

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Published April 29, 2018

Will Europe’s Jews stop wearing kippahs? Most already have.

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Published April 25, 2018

1,100 Russian Jews to hear at Auschwitz about Polish rescue, betrayal of Jews

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Published April 25, 2018

In Krakow, Jews celebrate their community’s ‘revival’ amid rising xenophobia

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Published April 23, 2018

‘Three Billboards’-style campaign against anti-Semitism in Labour Party fails to sway Brits

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Published April 23, 2018

An employee at the Anne Frank House asked to wear a kippah. He waited 6 months for an answer.

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Published April 16, 2018

In Hungary’s election, the far right scores even as an extremist party fizzles

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Published April 9, 2018

Iceland welcomes its first rabbi while considering a ban on circumcision

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Published April 5, 2018

The music of Holocaust victims returns to the Dutch concentration camp where they suffered

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Published April 2, 2018

Paris vigil for murdered Holocaust survivor brings together family, politicians and a Muslim rescuer of Jews

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Published March 29, 2018

In handling of Holocaust survivor’s brutal death, French Jews see a ‘lesson learned’ by their government

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Published March 28, 2018

Macron ‘appalled’ by Holocaust victim’s murder in Paris, vows to fight anti-Semitism

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Published March 27, 2018

In Paris, the demise of some Jewish congregations is fueling revival in others

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Published March 23, 2018

What a Jewish reporter learned from an afternoon with 3 Iranian journalists

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Published March 21, 2018

In European Jewry’s biggest song contest, Israel is always a winner

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Published March 21, 2018

How matzah became a household item for non-Jews in the Netherlands

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Published March 20, 2018

Anti-BDS activist to be tried for ‘intimidation’ in Spain

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Published March 20, 2018

Hundreds march with Nazi SS veterans in Latvia

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Published March 16, 2018

Swedish ministers call to end faith schools

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Published March 14, 2018

Polish nationalist lawmaker defends receiving medal from Hezbollah leader

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Published March 14, 2018

Why some Jews in Russia don’t think Putin’s comment about them was anti-Semitic

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Published March 12, 2018

More women are in charge of Jewish groups in the former Soviet Union, thanks to a communist legacy

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Published March 8, 2018

Iran tripled its missile production, senior commander says

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Published March 7, 2018

Poland’s Holocaust law upends one activist’s decade of progress in interfaith relations

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Published March 6, 2018

Will Israel’s clash with Poland affect Holocaust commemoration trips?

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Published March 2, 2018

Austria just hosted Europe’s largest conference on anti-Semitism. It was challenging with a far-right party in the government.

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Published February 27, 2018

Russia and Ukraine provided Israel with majority of immigrants in 2017

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Published February 26, 2018

This Jewish grandmother was sentenced to death in Iran. Holland won’t grant her asylum.

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Published February 23, 2018

A soaring number of Sephardic Jews acquired Portuguese citizenship in 2017

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Published February 23, 2018

Petition appears on track for bill banning circumcision in Denmark

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Published February 20, 2018

Poland’s prime minister said some Jews collaborated with Nazis. Scholars say he distorted history.

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Published February 20, 2018

For some Balkan Muslims, a Jewish ‘false messiah’ inspires interfaith understanding

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Published February 16, 2018

For Jews in the Netherlands, Catholic Carnival feels like ‘hardcore Purim’

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Published February 12, 2018

British foundation for preserving Jewish heritage unveils map of Europe’s synagogues

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Published February 9, 2018

Everyone loved this French-Muslim singer’s Leonard Cohen cover. Then they read her Facebook posts.

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Published February 7, 2018

Poland isn’t the only country trying to police what can be said about the Holocaust

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Published February 6, 2018

Jews from all over Russia win trips to Paris — by studying Judaism

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Published February 5, 2018

A century-old Siberian synagogue was built by abducted child soldiers. It’s back in Jewish hands.

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Published February 2, 2018

Chief rabbi of Ukraine wants Holocaust program moved to his country to punish Poland

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Published February 2, 2018

Siberian synagogue built by former child soldiers returned to Jewish community

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Published January 31, 2018

Netanyahu is trying hard to court Putin. Is his rhetoric working?

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Published January 30, 2018

Report: Ukraine had more anti-Semitic incidents than all former Soviet countries combined

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Published January 28, 2018

Poland wants to ban the term ‘Polish death camps.’ There are historical inaccuracies on both sides of the debate.

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Published January 27, 2018

Jeremy Corbyn and Britain’s chief rabbi didn’t mention Jews in Holocaust statements. Only Corbyn got slammed.

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Published January 26, 2018

Finland to probe troops’ alleged role in the Holocaust

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Published January 24, 2018

While in jail, an Austrian historian wrote a book that slams his country’s Holocaust restitution system

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Published January 23, 2018

L’Oréal’s boundary-breaking Muslim model steps aside over anti-Israel tweets

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Published January 22, 2018

This Jewish liberal just became the Russian opposition’s best hope of hurting Putin

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Published January 19, 2018

Jews reportedly barred from UK campus lecture on Israel’s ‘reproductive sabotage’

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Published January 19, 2018

British Labour Party drops candidate who linked Holocaust and Gaza ‘ghetto being shelled’

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Published January 17, 2018

In Japan, I discovered the unsung Dutch hero behind Sugihara’s rescue of Jews

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Published January 9, 2018

U.S., Israel, Saudi Arabia policies on Iran ‘would lead us to war,’ French president says

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Published January 7, 2018

Hundreds commemorate Dutch Jews sent to be murdered from psychiatric hospital

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Published January 5, 2018

France’s foremost female rabbi faces flak over Jerusalem stance

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Published January 4, 2018

How this 31-year-old Londoner became Poland’s best-known (and most controversial) Jew

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Published January 3, 2018

This Jewish woman is creating the world’s first vagina museum

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Published December 29, 2017

2017 was a good year for Europe’s extremists

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Published December 22, 2017

Why Dutch Jews are up in arms over the handling of a kosher restaurant attack

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Published December 20, 2017

Rise of far-right party suggests Austria hasn’t learned from its Holocaust past

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Published December 19, 2017

Krakow opens first kosher hotel post-Holocaust

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Published December 15, 2017

Dutch university’s professor emeritus questions Holocaust on TV, calls Jews ‘parasites’

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Published December 15, 2017

Anti-Semitism is France has deep roots and new masks, French PM says

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Published December 10, 2017

For Israelis in Japan, the North Korea nuclear threat is business as usual

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Published December 8, 2017

Following Trump’s declaration, European Union doubles down on its Jerusalem policy

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Published December 6, 2017

In Budapest, Hanukkah comes out of the shadows and onto the ice rink

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Published December 5, 2017

Hungary says it keeps Jews safe by keeping out Muslim immigrants

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Published November 29, 2017

Why kosher butchers in Western Europe are preparing to close shop

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Published November 27, 2017

Cars for Eichmann abduction came from Argentine Jewish community, Mossad agent reveals

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Published November 24, 2017

Israel to continue to urge Europe’s Jews to immigrate after terrorist attacks, envoy says

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Published November 24, 2017

Mladic conviction rekindles Holocaust historians’ debate on definition of genocide

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Published November 23, 2017

New group fosters Jewish-Kurdish friendship and supports independence for Kurdistan

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Published November 22, 2017

Europe’s only Jewish hospice gives Holocaust survivors a dignified farewell

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Published November 21, 2017

Polish Jewish leaders meet with ruling party leader in wake of nationalist marches

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Published November 21, 2017

Jewish family’s adopted son accused of scrawling Hitler slur on Chabad preschool

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Published November 17, 2017

Austria accepted its Holocaust guilt. So why is its far right on the rise?

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Published November 16, 2017

60,000 joined a Polish nationalist march. Should Jews be worried?

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Published November 13, 2017

Calling Israeli children ‘Zionist terrorists in training’ is not incitement to hate, Dutch prosecutors rule

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Published November 9, 2017

A Dutch anti-Semitism watchdog is upset that anti-Israel activists are speaking at Kristallnacht commemorations

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Published November 9, 2017

I was just accused of being an Israeli spy in the Dutch parliament

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Published November 8, 2017

Israel’s president cheers a united Spain — or did he?

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Published November 8, 2017

What was the Jewish role in 1917 Russian Revolution? This Moscow museum gives a full picture.

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Published November 6, 2017

A new Dutch play about Anne Frank doesn’t mention Jews, Nazis

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Published November 5, 2017

Montenegro gets a rabbi while waiting for a synagogue

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Published November 3, 2017

4 Jewish things you need to know about Catalonia

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Published October 31, 2017

Kiev’s American-style JCC gives low-income Jews the millionaire treatment

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Published October 30, 2017

Publisher recalls books by Lithuanian writer who triggered debate about the Holocaust

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Published October 30, 2017

Europe has a ‘Jewish’ soccer team problem

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Published October 24, 2017

Taboo-breaking film depicts Hungary’s grim welcome to Holocaust survivors

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Published October 23, 2017

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