Cnaan Liphshiz

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Cnaan Liphshiz is based in the Netherlands, where he reports on Jewish life throughout Europe. Born in Israel, he previously worked as foreign news editor for Maariv and as a reporter for Haaretz.

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An excavator digs near a mass grave of Jews in Veliucionys, Lithuania in February 2021. (Ruta Vanagaite)

Digging documented near privately owned mass grave of Jews in Lithuania

By Cnaan Liphshiz February 25, 2021 10:04 am

Azerbaijan’s Jews postpone public Purim events in deference to national memorial day

By Cnaan Liphshiz February 25, 2021 9:48 am

Dutch right-wing politician calls Nuremberg trials ‘illegitimate’

By Cnaan Liphshiz February 24, 2021 1:46 pm

Why Russian Jews are divided over the anti-Putin movement

By Cnaan Liphshiz February 23, 2021 3:46 pm

‘Jew cookies’ are a Dutch dessert staple. They’re getting a new name — and Dutch Jews are confused.

By Cnaan Liphshiz February 22, 2021 5:10 pm

Amsterdam mayor wants state to return $22 million Nazi-looted painting now in the city’s museum

By Cnaan Liphshiz February 22, 2021 10:37 am

Tomasz Greniuch, holding papers, makes a gesture that appears to be a Nazi salute at a far-right event in Poland in 2007. (Bartosz Siedlik, courtesy of Gazeta Wyborcza)

Polish historian resigns state position over 2007 photos of him performing Nazi salute

By Cnaan Liphshiz February 22, 2021 10:09 am

The far-right politician Volen Siderov lifts his arm at a political rally in Sofia, Bulgaria on March 11, 2011. (Wikimedia Commons)

Bulgarian courts failed to punish Holocaust denier, European tribunal rules

By Cnaan Liphshiz February 19, 2021 2:19 pm

The lost Torah scroll of Dordrecht, the Netherlands, measures 45 yards in lengths. (Courtesy of NIG)

In Holland, a Torah scroll returns to Jewish hands 80 years after it was hidden from the Nazis

By Cnaan Liphshiz February 19, 2021 12:46 pm

French-Jewish lawmaker Yael Braun-Pivet holds a paper flower offered by a man at a migrant detention center in Paris, France on Sept. 18, 2019. (Stephane de Sakutin/AFP via Getty Images)

Hate mail to French-Jewish lawmaker tells her to ‘prepare for the camps’

By Cnaan Liphshiz February 19, 2021 10:56 am

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Digging documented near privately owned mass grave of Jews in Lithuania

Azerbaijan’s Jews postpone public Purim events in deference to national memorial day

Dutch right-wing politician calls Nuremberg trials ‘illegitimate’

Why Russian Jews are divided over the anti-Putin movement

‘Jew cookies’ are a Dutch dessert staple. They’re getting a new name — and Dutch Jews are confused.

Amsterdam mayor wants state to return $22 million Nazi-looted painting now in the city’s museum

Polish historian resigns state position over 2007 photos of him performing Nazi salute

Bulgarian courts failed to punish Holocaust denier, European tribunal rules

In Holland, a Torah scroll returns to Jewish hands 80 years after it was hidden from the Nazis

Hate mail to French-Jewish lawmaker tells her to ‘prepare for the camps’

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