by Cnaan Liphshiz | Jun 19, 2018 | Community, Elderly, Family, Milestones
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — More than 70 years have passed since Meijer van der Sluis first laid eyes on the love of his life. He was at a home for child survivors of the Holocaust, and he opened the door for her. He still remembers her short haircut and exactly what she... read more
by Cnaan Liphshiz | Jun 1, 2018 | Community, Community Resources, Religion
TRNAVA, Slovakia (JTA) — Growing up, Robert Sajtlava remembers playing near what used to be his native city’s Orthodox Synagogue. A rectangular structure with a deceptively unimpressive facade, its ornate ceiling and interior walls suffered extensive damage from... read more
by Cnaan Liphshiz | May 11, 2018 | Arts & Life, Film & TV
(JTA) — A decade ago, relatively few people in Russia even knew about the existence of Sobibor, the smallest-scale facility of the six killing centers that the Nazis built in occupied Poland. This relative obscurity persisted for decades in Russia, Israel and... read more
by Cnaan Liphshiz | May 4, 2018 | Community, Community Resources
CHELSFIELD, United Kingdom (JTA) — Five years ago, Talia Chain and her husband had the best-laid plans for living in a central London apartment surrounded by young and hip high-tech professionals like them. Unaffordable to most Britons, this English dream was... read more
by Cnaan Liphshiz | Apr 26, 2018 | International, News, Politics
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — The debate about wearing a kippah in Western Europe returned only a decade or so ago, but it has nonetheless come to follow a rigid pattern even in that short period of time. The cycle – there have been dozens of such cases — begins with... read more
Read the latest views and thoughts from Jmore Publisher Scott Rifkin, MD 