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Larry Luxner

Larry Luxner

A woman beats a pot next to a placard reading 'Zionism is not dead yet, and we don't know when it will be,' at a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel rally in Podgorica, Montenegro, September 14, 2025. (Photo by SAVO PRELEVIC / AFP)
August 8, 2026, 3:04 am
Montenegro’s tiny Jewish community navigates rising hostility toward Israel
Southeast European country remains a top destination for Israeli tourists, but some worry recent proliferation of libels against Jewish state are influencing local opinion
By Larry Luxner
Colombian President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella, left, waves to supporters next to his wife Ana Lucia Pineda during a Mass in honor of Our Lady of the Rosary of Chiquinquira, in Chiquinquira, Colombia, July 9, 2026. (AP/Fernando Vergara)
July 18, 2026, 4:40 pm
Colombia and Slovenia recognized a Palestinian state. Now they’re moving embassies to Jlem
Political swings offer rare good news for Israel as hostile governments are replaced by pro-Israel conservatives – though local Jews wait to see what impact, if any, that may have at home
By Larry Luxner
Members of Armenia’s Russian-speaking Jewish community, along with invited Muslim guests from Egypt and Lebanon, attend a Shabbat dinner July 3, 2026, in Yerevan. (Larry Luxner/ JTA)
July 11, 2026, 5:42 am
Armenia’s Jews hope Israeli recognition of Ottoman genocide will jumpstart bilateral ties
An explosion of Jewish life in the former Soviet republic comes against the backdrop of frosty relations between the country and Israel
By Larry Luxner
A protester holds an antisemitic placard during a demonstration in Tirana, Albania, June 3, 2026, opposing a luxury coastal development project linked to Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump. (AP/Hameraldi Agolli)
June 26, 2026, 4:50 pm
Albanian protests against Jared Kushner resort development see emerging antisemitism
Messages demonizing Israel and playing into anti-Jewish tropes grow on fringes of mass anti-government uprising, but in country historically kind to Jews, some see outside hand
By Larry Luxner
Rabbi Joel Fleekop points to a monument marking the 1878 consecration of Temple Beth El in Pensacola, Florida. (Larry Luxner/ JTA)
April 25, 2026, 1:40 am
As Pensacola’s oldest synagogue turns 150, locals celebrate the community’s rich history
Far from most of Florida’s three-quarters of a million Jews is a small pocket of 1,800 that significantly predates its southern counterparts – and, locals say, is ripe for a renaissance
By Larry Luxner
Students and their teachers from Berlin’s Refik Veseli School and Tirana’s Gjimnazi Sami Frashëri pose for a group shot in front of Albania’s Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, 2026. (Larry Luxner/ JTA)
April 7, 2026, 3:48 pm
In Albania, teens at German school discover tribal code of honor that saved Jews in WWII
Students at Refik Veseli Schule, named for an Albanian honored as Righteous Among the Nations, learn about ‘besa,’ a precept that mandates the protection of strangers fleeing persecution
By Larry Luxner
A woman holds Israeli and Venezuelan flags in front of the Venezuelan consulate in Miami to show solidarity with the Venezuelan Jewish community after an attack on a Caracas synagogue, February 13, 2009. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images via JTA)
January 9, 2026, 6:58 pm
Relieved to see Maduro deposed, can Venezuela’s Jewish diaspora imagine returning?
An estimated 20,000 Venezuelan Jews fled state-fueled antisemitism during the Chavez era, leaving just 4,000 behind. They’re hesitating to pick up the pieces for now
By Larry Luxner
The welcome to Roswell sign includes UFO decor. (Larry Luxner/ JTA)
November 15, 2025, 5:29 am
Roswell, New Mexico, is rife with UFOs, scorpions and conspiracy theories — but few Jews
A Jewish ufologist helped put the isolated desert town on the map, but in a city forged around the religion of aliens, Jewish life is virtually nonexistent
By Larry Luxner
'Free Gaza' graffiti is scrawled on a metal barrier along a busy street in Ljubljana, Slovenia. (Larry Luxner via JTA)
October 11, 2025, 4:20 am
As anti-Israel bias is mainstreamed in Slovenia, its few Jews feel even more marginalized
Ahead of its elections, Slovenia is taking unprecedented measures against the Jewish state while largely ignoring antisemitism experienced by its tiny Jewish community
By Larry Luxner
Akis Dagazian, Armenia’s honorary consul in Thessaloniki, stands in front of the Armenian Church of the Virgin Mary. (Larry Luxner/JTA)
September 30, 2025, 7:49 am
Thessaloniki’s Armenian minority and Jewish past are bound by a shared history of genocide
Greek port city with longstanding Armenian community was mostly Jewish before the Holocaust; Armenians emphasize marking 1915 genocide, which Netanyahu recently recognized
By Larry Luxner
Librarian Olga Sivak holds up a newspaper from 1913, Bessarabian Life, at the Jewish Museum of Moldova in Chișinău. (Photo by Larry Luxner via JTA)
September 23, 2025, 4:44 pm
Most Moldovan Jews fled decades ago. Local Jewish life is now fueled by their descendants
Decimated by pogroms, the Holocaust and years of Soviet rule, the small but tenacious community is coping with antisemitism, poverty and an influx of refugees from neighboring Ukraine
By Larry Luxner
Illustrative: People walk past a billboard depicting the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in Tiraspol, the capital of the Russia-backed breakaway region of Transnistria, in Moldova on November 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
August 30, 2025, 3:11 am
As war rages in neighboring Ukraine, Transnistria’s Jews feel caught in a Soviet time warp
The Russian-aligned breakaway state in Moldova had a Jewish population of 300,000 before the Holocaust. The few remaining today battle heightened poverty amid neighboring conflict
By Larry Luxner
US President Donald Trump, center, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, right, and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, at a trilateral signing ceremony in White House, August 8, 2025, in Washington. (AP/Mark Schiefelbein)
August 22, 2025, 4:28 pm
After decades of conflict, Armenia-Azerbaijan peace plan gives Caucasus Jews new hope
Jewish communities in the two former Soviet countries have had no communication, while Armenian ties to Israel have been strained over arms sales to its foe. All that may change
By Larry Luxner
Presidential candidate George Simion speaks to media after polls closed for the second round of the country's presidential election redo in Bucharest, Romania, May 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
August 18, 2025, 1:53 am
After a contentious election, Romania’s few Jews remain on guard against antisemitism
While Jewish communities in Western Europe are on edge due to the Gaza War, their Romanian counterparts worry over a rising far-right fueled in part by lack of Holocaust awareness
By Larry Luxner
Representatives of the Jewish community lay flowers at the monument commemorating victims of a World War II concentration camp in Jasenovac, Croatia, April 22, 2025. (AP)
May 3, 2025, 8:41 am
As Croatia’s fascist past sheds taboo, some local Jews fear for their future
Symbols from the era of Nazi collaboration have resurfaced in former Yugoslav nation, and community leaders say the government in Zagreb won’t ‘accept responsibility’
By Larry Luxner
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