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Snow falls on a Hanukkah Menorah made of ice in Tomsk, Russia, Dec. 8, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Levy Kaminetsky)
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A Siberian synagogue has a 10-foot menorah made of ice

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA December 11, 2020
Esther Cohen is flanked by her husband Samuel (left) and German President Joachim Gauck in Ioannina, Greece, March 7, 2014. (Photo/JTA-Wolfgang Kumm-picture alliance via Getty Images)
Posted inWorld

6 of Europe’s most prominent Holocaust survivors have died over the past month

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA December 3, 2020December 3, 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
A headshot of Adams, a smiling white woman, with the cover of her book, "The Nesting Dolls."
Posted inBooks

Former San Franciscan recasts Russian Jewish family stories in ‘Nesting Dolls’

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller July 13, 2020July 21, 2020
Natan Sharansky speaking in front of the Soviet Consulate in San Francisco, Feb. 6, 1987 (Photo/Tom Wachs)
Posted inIsrael at 70

I joined the Zionist revolution in Russia

john rothmann by John Rothmann April 17, 2018April 16, 2018
Mike Pompeo at a confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Jan. 12, 2017. (Photo/JTA-Joe Raedle-Getty Images)
Posted inNews

5 ways Mike Pompeo as secretary of state matters for Israel and the Jews

by Ron Kampeas March 14, 2018March 19, 2018
Jewish organizations during the May Day demonstration at Marsovo Pole in Petrograd, Russia, 1919. (Photo/Courtesy Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center)
Posted inNews

100 years later: What was the role of Jews in the 1917 Russian Revolution?

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz November 7, 2017March 19, 2018
Natan Sharansky speaking in front of the Soviet Consulate in San Francisco, Feb. 6, 1987 (Photo/Tom Wachs)
Posted inOpinion

Remembering days of protest at soon-to-close S.F. Russian consulate

Doug Kahn by Rabbi Doug Kahn September 1, 2017September 1, 2017
Three bearded men dressed in black
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Rabbi’s expulsion rattles Russian Jews fearful of Kremlin crackdown

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz February 14, 2017March 19, 2018
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Posted inBay Area, Columns

This week in history: renouncing Soviet citizenship (1969), “What Y2K means for Jews” (1999)

by J. Staff January 6, 2017

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