In Belarus, young Jews among those picked off street and jailed amid police crackdown on protesters Artur Raisky and Albert Kengerli had tried to avoid the mass protests against their native country’s autocratic leader, but police arrested them anyway. By Cnaan Liphshiz August 13, 2020 11:17 am
Belarus Jewish community holds memorial for Kirk Douglas, its most famous descendant Douglas was born in New York state to Yiddish-speaking Jewish parents from the Mogilev region of Belarus. February 10, 2020 12:55 pm
Former synagogue in Belarus selling as warehouse for $6,000 The 19th century building in Porazava is the country’s only intact one of its kind built almost entirely from rubble stone. August 15, 2019 1:24 pm
Remains of over 1,000 Holocaust victims uncovered during construction work reburied in Belarus By Cnaan Liphshiz May 22, 2019 7:36 am
In Belarus, Jews helped build a restaurant next to Stalin-era graves. Protests against it have turned anti-Semitic. By Cnaan Liphshiz May 21, 2019 3:05 pm
Remains of hundreds of bodies discovered at former Jewish ghetto of Brest, Belarus By Cnaan Liphshiz February 21, 2019 7:38 pm
Armenia’s capital honors Holocaust survivor who coined the term ‘genocide’ By Cnaan Liphshiz December 31, 2018 7:40 am
Immigrant to Israel from Belarus convicted for trying to join Islamic State December 28, 2017 5:32 am
Marc Chagall’s Belarus hometown celebrates first synagogue opening in a century November 3, 2017 10:57 am