Outside Amsterdam’s Portuguese Synagogue, Spanish olive trees endure northern winters Growing in planters designed to help them survive, the Iberian imports need to be tucked in each winter to see another spring. By Cnaan Liphshiz December 27, 2018 4:08 pm
In northern Brazil, Sephardic converts are giving dwindling Jewish communities a new lease on life The cradle of Brazilian Jewry is seeing the return of hundreds whose ancestors were forcibly converted to Christianity centuries ago. December 26, 2018 12:15 pm
Is this the last stand for Amsterdam’s Jewish market? Critics say a gentrification plan will kill the soul of a bazaar established by the city for its Jews in 1893. November 1, 2018 12:41 pm
A Yom Kippur tradition in Amsterdam dates back to the invention of electricity By Cnaan Liphshiz September 14, 2017 1:28 pm
