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Shira Li Bartov

Shira Li Bartov

Shira Li Bartov is a JTA contributor covering culture and global news. She was previously a staff writer at Newsweek and a producer at Inside Edition.

The inauguration ceremony of Rabbi Yoni Wieder as chief rabbi of Ireland was held at the Dublin Hebrew Synagogue, May 21, 2024. (Ros Kavanagh/ Courtesy Office of the Chief Rabbi of Ireland)
Posted inWorld

At 28, Ireland’s new chief rabbi is leading an aging population in a time of turmoil

Shira Li Bartov by Shira Li Bartov August 29, 2024August 29, 2024
Ariel Oberfeld, 17, traveled from his home in suburban Chicago to work as a counselor at Ramah Yachad in Ukraine in 2024. (Courtesy Midreshet Schechter)
Posted inWorld

At Camp Ramah in Ukraine, sports and Jewish traditions are an escape from war

Shira Li Bartov by Shira Li Bartov August 23, 2024August 23, 2024
Demonstrators carry a banner reading "Against antisemitism, racism and the extreme right" during a rally at the Square des Martyrs Juifs in Paris, Nov. 12, 2023. (Michel Stoupak/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Posted inWorld

Jewish leaders in Europe want to stay there despite pessimism about antisemitism, survey finds

Shira Li Bartov by Shira Li Bartov July 23, 2024July 23, 2024
Jean Luc Mélenchon, a leader of the left-wing New Popular Front, speaks in front of thousands of supporters on Place de la République on June 30, 2024 in Paris. (Pierre Crom/Getty Images)
Posted inWorld

French Jews caught in the middle as voters reject far right

Shira Li Bartov by Shira Li Bartov July 8, 2024July 8, 2024
Bettina Farack, a research fellow at the Leo Baeck Institute in Jerusalem, speaks about the Library of Lost Books initiative during a launch event in Berlin in November 2023. (Courtesy Weiner Library)
Posted inHistory

Amateur detectives are invited to join search for a lost Jewish library looted by the Nazis

Shira Li Bartov by Shira Li Bartov July 3, 2024July 3, 2024
Students of Copenhagen University start an encampment asking for the university administration to cut ties with Israel due to its military offensive in Gaza, May 6, 2024. (Photo/JTA/Mohamed El Shemy/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Posted inWorld

European students are calling on their universities to divest from Israel. In many cases, they’re winning.

Shira Li Bartov by Shira Li Bartov June 4, 2024June 4, 2024
Anna Próchniak as Gita and Jonah Hauer-King as Lali in Peacock's "The Tattooist of Auschwitz." (Photo/Martin Mlaka-Sky UK)
Posted inTV

‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ tackles a Holocaust love story based on real events

Shira Li Bartov by Shira Li Bartov April 22, 2024May 1, 2024
Joey King, as Halina, and Logan Lerman, as Andy, in a scene from "We Were the Lucky Ones." (Photo/Hulu)
Posted inTV

‘We Were the Lucky Ones’ uncovers a Jewish family’s buried past under the Nazis

Shira Li Bartov by Shira Li Bartov March 28, 2024March 28, 2024
an bearded man sits at a desk in a room lined with books
Posted inWorld

The Lublin Yeshiva Library was thought to be destroyed by the Nazis. Then its books started turning up.

Shira Li Bartov by Shira Li Bartov February 1, 2024February 1, 2024
Harvey Keitel as Lali Sokolov in "The Tattooist of Auschwitz." (Photo/JTA-Martin Mlaka-Sky UK)
Posted inTV & Film

Harvey Keitel, Jonah Hauer-King star in ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz,’ a Holocaust love story coming to Peacock

Shira Li Bartov by Shira Li Bartov January 18, 2024January 18, 2024

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