Shira Li Bartov

By Shira Li Bartov

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  Documentary about Jews killed by their Polish neighbors after the Holocaust could be banned in Poland

  A minister in the president’s office called the film 'historical anti-Polish manipulation'

  By Shira Li Bartov Feb 24, 2026 | 4 min read
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  Israeli-Palestinian restaurant shutters in Berlin, though a TV show will continue its story

  Kanaan’s Israeli and Palestinian owners won acclaim but fought economic challenges and local tensions emanating from the Gaza war

  By Shira Li Bartov Feb 4, 2026 | 2 min read
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  Father of former Israeli hostage joins Columbia as a Jewish history professor

  Jonathan Dekel-Chen’s appointment follows an antisemitism task force’s call for Columbia to hire more faculty who are not anti-Zionist

  By Shira Li Bartov Jan 28, 2026 | 3 min read
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  Her ancestors were expelled from Spain. Now she’s bringing bagels to Madrid.

  Tamara Cohen found pieces of her Sephardic history in Madrid, but she also found a bagel desert

  By Shira Li Bartov Jan 23, 2026 | 5 min read
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  British Jews could be offered asylum in the US, Trump’s UK-born Jewish lawyer says

  British and Israeli Jewish officials responded dismissively to Robert Garson’s disclosure

  By Shira Li Bartov Jan 20, 2026 | 3 min read
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  Circumcision could be ‘child abuse’ if done wrong, UK prosecutors warn after deaths

  The warning has triggered debate among Jews over the appropriate level of regulation

  By Shira Li Bartov Jan 15, 2026 | 2 min read
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  Democrats compare ICE with the Gestapo as they push to curb agency’s power

  Holocaust comparisons in politics were long treated as taboo by American Jews, but the Trump era has shifted that paradigm

  By Shira Li Bartov Jan 12, 2026 | 3 min read
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  Venezuela’s acting leader says ‘Zionist undertones’ marked U.S. capture of Maduro

  The accusation drew on years of anti-Israel rhetoric from Caracas

  By Shira Li Bartov Jan 5, 2026 | 2 min read