Partner Links: Learn Hebrew • Travel to Israel • Live Kotel Camera • Israel Pharmacy • Cellphone Rentals in Israel • Shalem College Open House

Monday, May 20, 2013
Sivan 11, 5773
12:15 pm IDT
Site updated 1 minute ago

The Times of Israel

The one-stop news site
covering Israel, the region and
the Jewish people worldwide

Founding editor:
David Horovitz

Fair, fresh and fast

The Jewish world's
fastest-growing
news site

Writer: Cnaan Liphshiz

May 15, 2013
4:56 am

Abdellah Boutadghart, right, of the Moroccan embassy in Senegal, and Rabbi Eliezer Di Martino of Lisbon at the main cemetery in Praia for the burial of a Cape Verde resident, May 2, 2013. (photo credit: Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

Why is the Moroccan king funding Jewish sites?

Whether to curry favor with US Jews or out of genuine interest, Mohammed VI has defied the region’s norms and taken wide-ranging steps to preserve community’s history

By Cnaan Liphshiz

May 10, 2013
9:30 pm

A Senegalese mother and her son standing outside the Israeli Embassy in Dakar, April 2013. (photo credit: Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

Amid rising African Islamism, Israel-Senegal ties prosper

An impoverished Muslim nation heavily dependent on foreign aid, Senegal follows an appreciative but careful line in its embrace of the Jewish state

By Cnaan Liphshiz

April 27, 2013
8:45 am

A Svoboda rally in Kiev in 2009. (Photo credit: Vasyl` Babych/Wikipedia)

Ukraine’s Jews worry anti-Semitism back in vogue

Community concerned about rising xenophobia and racially motivated violence inspired by neo-Nazi-rooted party Svoboda

By Cnaan Liphshiz

April 22, 2013
1:21 pm

Meyer Habib, right, vice president of the CRIF umbrella body of French Jewish communities, speaking at a news conference in Paris in 2009. (photo credit: Courtesy of CAPE - Centre d'Accueil de la Presse Etrangère/JTA)

A Sephardi challenge to the last bastion of Ashkenazi power in France

Next month’s leadership elections to the CRIF community umbrella group could complete a dramatic transition for French Jewry

By Cnaan Liphshiz

April 22, 2013
5:52 am

Rabbi David Lazar, left, showing a Torah scroll to Swedish government minister Stefan Attefall at the Great Synagogue of Stockholm, November 2011. (photo credit: Regeringskansliet, The government of Sweden/JTA)

Rabbi David Lazar, too brash for Stockholm?

The dismissal of Sweden’s unorthodox Conservative rabbi creates a media row in one of the world’s most secular cultures

By Cnaan Liphshiz

April 20, 2013
9:46 am

David Popovits, owner of the Matzah Soldier, sits down for a meal at his upscale restaurant in Budapest, March 2013. (photo credit: Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

A delicious antidote to Jobbik’s anti-Semitism

Budapest bistro Matzah Soldier is drawing trendy clientele with a fresh take on grandma’s cooking

By Cnaan Liphshiz

April 10, 2013
3:05 am

The Jewish Cemetary in Prague. It was in use from the early 15th century until 1787. (photo credit: Rachael Cerrotti/Flash90)

Europe’s communities overwhelmed by cemetery upkeep

Graveyards of annihilated communities are disintegrating as the remaining Jews use their limited resources on the living

By Cnaan Liphshiz

March 25, 2013
10:56 pm

Ada Aharoni, sitting on the right among volunteers, is the author of “The Golden Age of the Jews From Egypt." (Courtesy of Ada Aharoni via JTA)

Egyptian Jews record more recent ‘second Exodus’

Fearing new Islamist leaders are trying to blot out their history, authors of a new book compile their own story

By Cnaan Liphshiz

March 16, 2013
3:37 am

Four weeks before murdering three children at a Jewish school, Mohammed Merah went skiing. (France 3/YouTube via JTA)

French Jews slam TV portrayal of school killer

Watched by millions, Mohammed Merah doc omits family testimony about anti-Semitism and portrays terrorist as mental health victim

By Cnaan Liphshiz

March 11, 2013
7:20 pm

Afi Hossein Jarhomi, right, the founder of the Hungarian Iranian Business Group, attends a meeting with Jobbik chairman Gabor Vona, third from right, and visiting Iranians. (tiszavasvari.hu via JTA)

Iran and Hungarian party form anti-Semitic alliance

Isolated and anti-Western, a pair of pariahs find common ground in their outspoken opposition to Jewish interests

By Cnaan Liphshiz

March 6, 2013
1:22 am

Managing director Alex Zirkler, left, pictured with administrator Julius Dem, has watched as the Lauder Business School has expanded from seven to more than 250 students. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

Jewish business school celebrates 10 years in Europe

With an accomplished student body and classes in a renovated palace, Vienna’s Lauder Business School hopes growth will continue

By Cnaan Liphshiz

February 26, 2013
3:54 am

Like a growing number of Jews in Austria's capital, Karl Pfeifer grew up in Budapest but now lives in Vienna. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

Austrian Jews woo Hungary’s spooked community

Vienna is luring emigres from Budapest, worried by economic woes and the rise of the far-right Jobbik party

By Cnaan Liphshiz

February 19, 2013
1:01 am

Geza Weisz, right, and Imanuelle Grives on the set of "Only Decent People" in Amsterdam last year. (Courtesy of Topkapi Films via JTA)

Dutch film tests Jewish, black taboos

A hit in Holland, a drama starring and written by local Jews is stoking disapproval, discussion with its flagrant stereotypes

By Cnaan Liphshiz

February 6, 2013
7:50 pm

An Israeli emergency rescue team transports the body of a victim of July's terrorist attack in Bulgaria. (Dano Monkotovic/FLASH90/JTA)

Despite Burgas, EU noncommittal on Hezbollah

Political and economic concerns — and fears of retaliation — likely to stop Union from classifying group as terrorist organization

By Cnaan Liphshiz

February 4, 2013
2:36 pm

The number of bike riders in Tel Aviv -- soldiers included -- grew 50 percent between 2010 and last year. (Serge Attal/FLASH90/JTA)

Europeans clamor to take Tel Aviv for a ride

Bicycle manufacturers can’t soft-pedal their excitement about city’s soaring cycling enthusiasm

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Page 1 of 4
1
2
3
4
>

The Times of Israel

The one-stop news site
covering Israel, the region and
the Jewish people worldwide

Founding editor:
David Horovitz

Fair, fresh and fast

The Jewish world's
fastest-growing
news site

Writer: Cnaan Liphshiz

Why is the Moroccan king funding Jewish sites?

Whether to curry favor with US Jews or out of genuine interest, Mohammed VI has defied the region’s norms and taken wide-ranging steps to preserve community’s history

Amid rising African Islamism, Israel-Senegal ties prosper

An impoverished Muslim nation heavily dependent on foreign aid, Senegal follows an appreciative but careful line in its embrace of the Jewish state

Ukraine’s Jews worry anti-Semitism back in vogue

Community concerned about rising xenophobia and racially motivated violence inspired by neo-Nazi-rooted party Svoboda

A Sephardi challenge to the last bastion of Ashkenazi power in France

Next month’s leadership elections to the CRIF community umbrella group could complete a dramatic transition for French Jewry

Rabbi David Lazar, too brash for Stockholm?

The dismissal of Sweden’s unorthodox Conservative rabbi creates a media row in one of the world’s most secular cultures

A delicious antidote to Jobbik’s anti-Semitism

Budapest bistro Matzah Soldier is drawing trendy clientele with a fresh take on grandma’s cooking

Europe’s communities overwhelmed by cemetery upkeep

Graveyards of annihilated communities are disintegrating as the remaining Jews use their limited resources on the living

Egyptian Jews record more recent ‘second Exodus’

Fearing new Islamist leaders are trying to blot out their history, authors of a new book compile their own story

French Jews slam TV portrayal of school killer

Watched by millions, Mohammed Merah doc omits family testimony about anti-Semitism and portrays terrorist as mental health victim

Iran and Hungarian party form anti-Semitic alliance

Isolated and anti-Western, a pair of pariahs find common ground in their outspoken opposition to Jewish interests

Jewish business school celebrates 10 years in Europe

With an accomplished student body and classes in a renovated palace, Vienna’s Lauder Business School hopes growth will continue

Austrian Jews woo Hungary’s spooked community

Vienna is luring emigres from Budapest, worried by economic woes and the rise of the far-right Jobbik party

Dutch film tests Jewish, black taboos

A hit in Holland, a drama starring and written by local Jews is stoking disapproval, discussion with its flagrant stereotypes

Despite Burgas, EU noncommittal on Hezbollah

Political and economic concerns — and fears of retaliation — likely to stop Union from classifying group as terrorist organization

Europeans clamor to take Tel Aviv for a ride

Bicycle manufacturers can’t soft-pedal their excitement about city’s soaring cycling enthusiasm

Latest Articles

Latest Blogs

The Times of Israel on Facebook