Cnaan Liphshiz, Author at JMORE

A puppet of Max the Matzah at a park in Amsterdam (Courtesy of JCK)

This Cartoon Matzah Character is Huge in Holland — and Not Just Among Jews

April 8, 2019 Cnaan Liphshiz

Max is a frog-eyed figure whose head, rising straight from the waist of a pair of green trousers, is a round matzah.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg prepares to administer the Oath of Allegiance to candidates for U.S. citizenship at the New-York Historical Society in Manhattan, April 10, 2018. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Returns to Supreme Court for 1st Time Since Cancer Operation

February 15, 2019 Cnaan Liphshiz

The Supreme Court will meet next in public session on Feb. 19.

Cnaan Liphshiz examines binned avocados at Amsterdam’s Albert Cuyp Market, Jan. 5, 2018. (Courtesy of Liphshiz)

How Going to Synagogue Regularly Turned Me Into a Dumpster Diver

January 9, 2019 Cnaan Liphshiz

Collecting and eating vegetables and fruit that have been thrown away has made my family’s diet healthier, improved our quality time together and helped us live up to our environmental convictions.

Roxane van Iperen’s home was once the center for one of Holland’s most daring Holocaust rescue operations. She wrote about it in “The High Nest.” (Jan Willem Kaldenbach)

Dutch Couple Find Forgotten Holocaust History in their Countryside Home

January 4, 2019 Cnaan Liphshiz

Part of the book’s appeal lies in the strong characters of the people who did the rescuing at van Iperen’s home: sisters Janny and Lien Brilleslijper and their families.

The olive trees outside of Amsterdam’s Portuguese synagogue get wrapped up every year. They are shown here in February 2018. (Hans Kaljee)

Outside Amsterdam’s Portuguese Synagogue, Spanish Olive Trees Endure Northern Winters

December 30, 2018 Cnaan Liphshiz

Some tourists witnessing the spectacle hypothesize that it’s an art project raising awareness to plastic pollution.

An Orthodox Colombian family shown in 2012. A new study revealed “widespread” Sephardic genetic ancestry across Latin American countries. (Paul Smith/For the Washington Post)

Genetic Study Finds Widespread Sephardic Ancestry in Latin America

December 28, 2018 Cnaan Liphshiz

Converso is the Spanish-language word for people who converted from Judaism to Christianity during the Inquisition in Spain and Portugal.

The bow of Johan Huibers' Noah's Ark is seen in Krimpen aan de Ijssel, the Netherlands. (Wikimedia Commons)

This Dutch Christian Boatmaker Wants to Sail His Life-Size Replica of Noah’s Ark to Israel

November 30, 2018 Cnaan Liphshiz

Dwarfing even some modern-day cruise ships, the ark instantly became an international tourist attraction when it was completed in 2012 after four years of construction.

Despite its humble appearance, The Amsterdam Jewish Historical Museum's Nieuwenhuys menorah costs more than many of the city's houses. (Courtesy of the the Amsterdam Jewish Historical Museum)

In Holland, One of the World’s Most Expensive Chanukah Menorahs Hides in Plain Sight

November 26, 2018 Cnaan Liphshiz

The Nieuwenhuys menorah — its creator was the non-Jewish silversmith Harmanus Nieuwenhuys — doesn’t stand out from the other menorahs on display next to it at the museum.

Rabbi Berel Lazar affixes a mezuzah to the front door of the New Synagogue in Kaliningrad, Nov. 8, 2018. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

Russia’s Westernmost Synagogue Rebuilt 80 years After Kristallnacht Destruction

November 9, 2018 Cnaan Liphshiz

The synagogue’s destruction and torching by the Nazis in the Kristallnacht pogroms that began on Nov. 9, 1938 was particularly shocking to the thousands of Jews who lived in Koenigsberg.

Vendors take a break in Amsterdam’s Waterloo Square Market, Oct. 25, 2017. (Huub Zeeman/Flickr)

Is This the Last Stand for Amsterdam’s Jewish Market?

November 2, 2018 Cnaan Liphshiz

The plan to tidy up Waterloo Square is part of a larger drive that began 15 years ago to gentrify a city known internationally for its sex trade, cannabis-dispensing “coffee shops” and atmosphere of freedom.

French soldiers patrol in front of a synagogue in Neuilly-sur-Seine, outside Paris, as part of France’s national security alert system Vigipirate, Jan. 21, 2015. (Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP/Getty Images)

In Europe, Synagogues are Protected Like Fortresses. It Took Decades to Get There.

October 29, 2018 Cnaan Liphshiz

According to European security professionals, it will take at least a decade and hundreds of millions of dollars before U.S. Jewry’s security infrastructure matches the European counterpart.