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Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA

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JTA Europe correspondent

Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar delivers a speech during an emergency gathering of rabbis in Moscow, Russia, Sept. 5, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia)
Posted inWorld

In rare rebuke, Russian chief rabbi accuses senior defense official of antisemitism

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA October 26, 2022

In an unusual move, a chief rabbi of Russia has accused a senior defense official of antisemitic hate speech in connection with the war in Ukraine, and a spokesperson for […]

Rishi Sunak leaves the Conservative Party headquarters in London, Oct. 24, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Dan Kitwood-Getty Images)
Posted inWorld

Where does Rishi Sunak, new UK prime minister, stand on Israel and Jewish issues?

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA October 26, 2022
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a concert at the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow, Sept. 20, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Getty Images)
Posted inWorld

As Putin’s war sputters, antisemitism seeps into the Russian media landscape

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA September 28, 2022
Members of the Jewish community of Prague, the Czech Republic, attend the unveiling of a monument made of Jewish headstones at a local Jewish cemetery, Sept. 7, 2022. (Photo/Courtesy of the Jewish Community of Prague)
Posted inWorld

Prague’s Jews build monument out of headstones plundered under communism

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA September 13, 2022
Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar delivers a speech during an emergency gathering of rabbis in Moscow, Russia, Sept. 5, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia)
Posted inWorld

In rare and delicate statement, Russia’s Chabad rabbis call to ‘end the suffering’ in Ukraine

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA September 8, 2022September 8, 2022
Then-U.K. Foreign Minister Liz Truss and Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid meet at the U.K. Commonwealth and Development Office in London, Nov. 29, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Stefan Rousseau-PA Images via Getty Images)
Posted inWorld

On Jewish issues, new UK Prime Minister Liz Truss looks to continue in Boris Johnson’s footsteps

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA September 7, 2022
Rolf Eden at the Staatsoper im Schiller Theater in Berlin, Germany, Jan. 24, 2017 (Photo/JTA-Matthias Nareyek-Getty Images)
Posted inObituaries

Rolf Eden, German playboy and nightclub impresario who fought in Israel’s War of Independence, dies at 92

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA August 17, 2022August 17, 2022
Hennady Korban attends a hearing in his corruption trial in Kyiv, Ukraine, Jan. 25, 2016. (Photo/JTA-Serhii Nuzhnenko-Pacific Press-LightRocket via Getty Images)
Posted inWorld

Zelensky reportedly strips 3 Jewish oligarchs of citizenship

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA July 28, 2022
Rabbi Shaul Horowitz (right) meets a Jewish refugee attending a service at the synagogue of Vinnytsia in June 2022. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Shaul Horowitz)
Posted inWorld

How Russia’s war is undoing 30 years of Jewish community building in Ukraine

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA July 21, 2022
(From left) Israeli President Isaac Herzog, U.S. President Joe Biden, and Israel's caretaker Prime Minister Yair Lapid applaud and cheer as they attend the opening ceremony of the Maccabiah Games at Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem, July 14, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Ronen Zvulun-POOL-AFP via Getty Images)
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Biden becomes first US president to make an appearance at the Maccabiah ‘Jewish Olympics’

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA July 15, 2022

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