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Members of the Wagabunda Scouts troop haul a fallen tree out of the Jewish cemetery of Nowe Miasto, Poland, Nov. 11, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Julia Bandurska)
Posted inWorld

This non-Jewish leader is working to clean up Poland’s forgotten Jewish cemeteries

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA November 18, 2020November 18, 2020
All the lights are on at the Great Synagogue of Stockholm, Nov. 9, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Ute Steyer)
Posted inWorld

European synagogues keep the lights on to mark 1938 Kristallnacht pogroms

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA November 9, 2020November 9, 2020
Policemen in central Vienna, where dozens of shots were fired on Nov. 2, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Joe Klamar-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inWorld

Four dead, 22 injured after shooting in Vienna near multiple synagogues

by JTA November 2, 2020November 3, 2020
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
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
Men wearing suits portraying haredi Jews with an ant's abdomen and legs at the annual procession of the carnival in Aalst, Belgium, Feb. 23, 2020. (JTA/Cnaan Liphshiz)
Posted inWorld

I enjoyed the Belgian carnival that featured anti-Semitic floats. Then I searched for homes in Israel.

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA February 26, 2020
Bookshelf of old copies of J. Previous names of this publication have included Emanu-El and Jewish Bulletin. (Photo/David A.M. Wilensky)
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‘The World’s Attitude Toward the Jew’ (1927); wedding at Candlestick (1987)

by J. Staff January 24, 2017
Berlin's Brandenburg Gate with the Israeli flag projected onto it on Jan. 9, 2017 to pay tribute to the victims of the ramming attack in Jerusalem (Photo/JTA-Getty Images-AFP-ODD ANDERSEN)
Posted inEditorial, Opinion

Israeli flag a welcome sight in European cities

by J. Staff January 13, 2017
Security guarding the area following a deadly truck-ramming attack in Berlin, Dec. 19, 2016. (Photo/JTA-Sean Gallup-Getty Images)
Posted inIsrael, World, News

Is Europe’s jihadist problem generating empathy toward Israel?

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz January 12, 2017

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