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Cnaan Liphshiz

Cnaan Liphshiz

Cnaan Liphshiz was a Jewish World reporter at The Times of Israel
Gad Elmaleh is shown at the Angouleme French-Speaking Film Festival in Angouleme, France, Aug. 27, 2022. (Sylvain Lefevre/WireImage/Getty Images via JTA)
November 8, 2022, 9:03 pm
Jewish comedian who was a source of pride for French Jews converts to Catholicism
In a country with high rates of antisemitism, Gad Elmaleh’s success was a comfort for many; ‘Virgin Marie took me under her wing,’ he says
By Cnaan Liphshiz
A student takes a picture of a graduate of Milton Friedman University in Budapest, Hungary, July 15, 2017. (Milton Friedman University/via JTA)
October 24, 2022, 11:54 pm
A secular Budapest university run by Chabad is eyeing a major expansion
Milton Friedman University, operated by the Lubavitch-affiliated EMIH, is using a $22 million government grant to raise enrollment — and it hopes to attract more Jewish students
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Illustrative: Staff work on the production line of Kosher poultry meat in a Kosher slaughterhouse in Csengele, Hungary on Jan. 15, 2021 (AP Photo/Laszlo Balogh)
October 22, 2022, 5:50 am
EU hosts Jewish, Muslim leaders defending ritual slaughter amid local bans
Jewish shechita and Islamic zabiha methods of meat production have come under attack in recent years, mainly by right-wing parties who seek to reduce religions’ presence in society
By Cnaan Liphshiz
A crowd protests against Israel during a demonstration by an estimated 10,000 people in Madrid, Spain, Monday April 15, 2002 (AP/Denis Doyle)
October 7, 2022, 8:17 am
In landmark ruling, top Spanish court says BDS movement ‘infringes on basic rights’
Pro-Israel group ACOM hails decision by Supreme Court of Spain, says it will serve as a legal precedent applicable to all further cases involving boycotts of Jewish state
By Cnaan Liphshiz
The Wassily Kandinsky painting 'View of Murnau with Church,' which was returned in September 2022 to the descendants of a Jewish art collector who was murdered in the Holocaust. (Public domain)
September 29, 2022, 2:44 pm
Reversing earlier stance, Netherlands to return looted Kandinsky to Jewish family
Relatives of murdered Auschwitz victim Johanna Margarethe Stern-Lippmann will regain ‘View of Murnau with Church,’ displayed in the Dutch city of Eindhoven’s art museum since 1951
By Cnaan Liphshiz
A teacher soothes a student during a theater show at the Gesher School in London, March 7, 2022. (Cnaan Liphshiz/ JTA)
September 29, 2022, 6:10 am
London’s Haredi and secular Jews find rare meeting point in special needs school
Filling a gap in the city’s otherwise robust array of Jewish education options, Gesher provides a nurturing environment for students – and a place where diverse parents can engage
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to Volgograd Region Governor Andrei Bocharov during their meeting in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022. (Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
September 29, 2022, 1:21 am
Antisemitism seen seeping into Russian media landscape as Ukraine invasion slows
Recent incidents include talk show host listing the names of Jews faulted for lacking patriotism, veteran columnist compiling list of known Jews, branding them ‘foreign agents’
By Cnaan Liphshiz
An Emirati government official, center, greets Lea Hadad, left, and UAE Rabbi Levi Duchman during their wedding in Abu Dhabi, UAE, Sept. 14, 2022. (Sami Sasso)
September 14, 2022, 11:52 pm
Chabad couple holds UAE’s largest Jewish wedding on Abraham Accords anniversary
Around 1,500 guests, including Emirati royals, take part in wedding of UAE Chabad emissary Rabbi Levi Duchman; celebration considered largest Jewish event in UAE history
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Members of the Jewish community of Prague, the Czech Republic, attend the unveiling of a monument made of Jewish headstones at a local Jewish cemetery, September 7, 2022. (Courtesy of the Jewish Community of Prague via JTA)
September 14, 2022, 8:37 am
Prague cobblestones made from Jewish headstones returned to community
‘Return of the Stones’ monument part of larger effort to address desecration of Jewish cemeteries throughout Eastern Europe after the Holocaust
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (R) signs an MOU with UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss at the Foreign Office, in London, November 29, 2021. (Stuart Mitchell/ GPO)
September 7, 2022, 10:12 am
On Israel, new UK Prime Minister Liz Truss looks set to continue supportive policies
Former foreign minister has vowed to be a friend to Jewish community, is expected to maintain her predecessor Johnson’s stance regarding Israel
By Cnaan Liphshiz
A view of Karolinska University Hospital in Sweden in 2017. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)
September 7, 2022, 9:15 am
Swedish court: Hospital unjustly fired doctor who complained of antisemitic bullying
Former department head found to have falsely flagged for review a Jewish surgeon who uncovered his antisemitic social media posts
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Illustrative: A man holds a placard that reads, 'In France grandmothers are killed because they are Jews,' during a protest organized by Jewish associations, who say justice has not been done for the killing of French Jewish woman Sarah Halimi, at Trocadero Plaza near Eiffel Tower in Paris, April 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
September 1, 2022, 12:58 pm
Murder of a Jewish man near Paris reignites fears about antisemitism in France
As the list of Jewish murder victims in the country grows, former Paris police commissioner alleges authorities do not take antisemitism seriously
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Rolf Eden arrives for the Cinema for Peace gala in Berlin, Feb. 9, 2015. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
August 18, 2022, 9:32 am
Rolf Eden, German playboy who fought in Israel’s Independence War, dies at 92
The Jewish nightclub owner, born Rolf Sigmund Sostheim, fled Germany for Israel in 1933 but later returned to Berlin to become the city’s ‘king of nightlife’
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Members of the Jewish community celebrate Purim in Manchester, in northern England, on March 17, 2022. (OLI SCARFF / AFP)
August 18, 2022, 9:12 am
As Manchester’s Jewish community grows, a local kosher certifier shuts down
Closure highlights the wide-scale demographic and social shifts reshaping the UK Jewish community, as Haredi residents with strict kosher requirements grow in numbers
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Hennady Korban attends a hearing in his corruption trial in Kyiv, Ukraine, January 25, 2016. (Serhii Nuzhnenko/ Pacific Press/ LightRocket via Getty Images/ via JTA)
August 16, 2022, 5:47 pm
Ukrainian oligarch says he placed Jewish death curse on Putin
Hennady Korban, who was stripped of his Ukrainian citizenship last month, claims Russian president is aware of the kabbalistic hex and is making military decisions based on it
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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