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Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA

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French President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech on combating radical Islam in Mulhouse, France, Feb. 18, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Jean Francois Badias-Pool-AFP)
Posted inWorld

To fight radical Islam, France is limiting religious freedoms — with the blessing of its Jewish minority

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA October 27, 2020October 27, 2020
an old man outside with an Israeli flag kippah on his head
Posted inWorld

The global proportion of Jews living in Europe is as low as it was 1,000 years ago. And the future there doesn’t look bright.

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA October 22, 2020October 22, 2020
Mordechai and Sheindle Sova were shot in 1941 on a central street of Kyiv, Ukraine and buried in a ditch after they ignored the order to gather to be murdered at Babyn Yar. (Photo/Courtesy Igor Kulakov and Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center)
Posted inWorld

Nearly 80 years after the Babyn Yar massacre, Ukrainian researchers lift victims out of anonymity

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA September 25, 2020September 25, 2020
a police officer in a facemask speaks to an orthodox man in black suit and black hat but no facemask
Posted inHigh Holidays

Israel enters second lockdown to stop record spread of coronavirus

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA September 18, 2020September 18, 2020
Dani Rotstein, pointing, explains to German tourists about a church that used to be a synagogue in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, Feb. 11, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Cnaan Liphshiz)
Posted inWorld

It ‘shows a great resilience’: Despite Covid, synagogues across Europe will still open to non-Jews for Days of Jewish Culture series

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA September 2, 2020September 2, 2020
Mirjam Wenzel is the director of the new Jewish Museum of Frankfurt, Aug. 25, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Cnaan Liphshiz)
Posted inWorld

Frankfurt Jewish museum’s $58 million extension reclaims Anne Frank’s forgotten roots in the city

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA August 26, 2020August 26, 2020
a bald man in a black judge's robe sits in a chair
Posted inWorld

In the Netherlands, judges can fine and lock up Jewish men who refuse to give their wives a religious divorce

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA August 19, 2020
a man with a beard wearing scrubs stands with four men in their 20s
Posted inWorld

Need an adult circumcision in Russia? There’s only one man for the job.

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA August 6, 2020
looking up at an ornate synagogue facade
Posted inWorld

In Western Europe, a Jewish ‘Community’ is like an expensive members-only club

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA July 29, 2020July 29, 2020
a man gets his face up close to a wall to inspect details
Posted inWorld

With no tourists in Amsterdam, locals are discovering the Anne Frank House

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA June 30, 2020

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