Shira Li Bartov

Shira Li Bartov is a JTA contributor covering culture and global news. She was previously a staff writer at Newsweek and a producer at Inside Edition.

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Global

In a Polish town where locals burned Jews alive in 1941, new plaques deny complicity with Nazis

By Shira Li Bartov July 11, 2025

Global

Bosnian hotel cancels meeting of European rabbis amid anti-Israel pressure from prominent locals

By Shira Li Bartov June 12, 2025

Global

Poland votes for its next president, with Polish-Jewish history on the ballot

By Shira Li Bartov May 30, 2025

Global

South Africa’s chief rabbi supports Donald Trump — but says his refugee program for Afrikaners is a ‘mistake’

By Shira Li Bartov May 14, 2025

Global

For the first time since Henry VIII created the role, a Jew will helm Hebrew studies at Cambridge

By Shira Li Bartov May 12, 2025

Global

Latvia again closes case against ‘Butcher of Riga,’ tied to mass murder of Jews

By Shira Li Bartov April 25, 2025

The Auschwitz Jewish Center in Oswiecm, Poland receives about 1% of the 2.3 million visitors who come to the former death camp each year. (Courtesy of the Auschwitz Jewish Center)

Global

80 years after Auschwitz, kosher food will be sold in its town of Oświęcim

By Shira Li Bartov April 4, 2025

Culture

New HBO Max series ‘Reformed’ depicts a French woman rabbi inspired by Delphine Horvilleur

By Shira Li Bartov April 3, 2025

Global

Citing post-Holocaust doctrine, Germany seeks to deport 4 pro-Palestinian protesters

By Shira Li Bartov April 1, 2025

Global

University of Amsterdam ends student exchange with Hebrew U, saying it’s complicit with Israeli military

By Shira Li Bartov March 18, 2025

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