Shira Li Bartov

Paul Kling was 14 when he rehearsed a newly written opera in the Theresienstadt camp. He survived the Holocaust and eventually went to Kentucky, becoming concertmaster of the Louisville Orchestra. Now, the orchestra is finally staging that opera: https://t.co/zVeoBxiTtq

RT @profzeke: Thanks to @shiralibartov for including my views in this piece on changing public views on immigration. I tried to make the po…

Half of Americans say they support the mass deportation of undocumented immigrants. Why have Trump’s anti-immigrant plans become so much more popular? My story for @prismreports: https://t.co/AIXA7e2X6a

For those seeking a reprieve from deep-rooted divisions in American society... may I suggest a film about deep-rooted divisions in French society: https://t.co/MaEPOEbiw3

RT @glcarlstrom: "Petropoulos says that the smell of rotting corpses permeates the entire Gaza Strip. It emanates from the rubble, under wh…

RT @JTAnews: Poland’s Jewish museum marks its first decade, made tumultuous by politics https://t.co/2WzFG9KWL4

RT @RabbiDavidMaxa: Historic Prague synagogue used on Yom Kippur for the first time since the Holocaust. Read more in an article by @JTAnew…

It has been a year since Oct. 7 and a year of death and destruction in Gaza. I asked 8 people who wildly disagree — American, Israeli and Palestinian — what we talk about when we talk about Zionism. https://t.co/6lORC0ZBXF

RT @emilyctamkin: Thank you to @shiralibartov for including me in this roundup of people talking about what Zionism and anti-Zionism means…

Kuźmiuk Bakery is the oldest bakery in Lublin, Poland, open since 1944. But before 1944, there was another bakery within the same walls — run by a Jewish family that was killed by the Nazis. My story about the intertwined fates of two Lublin families: https://t.co/Qz91pyrmHV

This summer camp in Ukraine offered two weeks of reprieve for 165 children whose lives have been ruptured by war. “That’s the only opportunity for some of them, maybe once a year, to go out just to play football,” said camp director Irina Gritsevskaya. https://t.co/8iVrVU2DrZ

After UK riots against Muslims and refugees, British Jews grapple with extremism that targeted them, too: https://t.co/RKcSq8razL

French conservative leader embraces Marine Le Pen’s far-right party with history of antisemitism: https://t.co/nAMgOUNyPI

I’m grateful to receive a Simon Rockower Award from the American Jewish Press Association for my story about a new community of Sephardic Jews repatriated in Porto. You can read it here! https://t.co/3Qq7VuLs0C

RT @JTAnews: .@shiralibartov won for writing about Jewish heritage and European Jewry with her feature on the Jewish community in Porto, Po…

European students are calling on their universities to boycott and divest from Israel. In many cases, they're winning. My story: https://t.co/XN57C4hKXT

Norway, Spain and Ireland will all recognize a Palestinian state, attempting to salvage long-dormant progress toward a two-state solution as international outcry grows against the bloodshed in Gaza: https://t.co/G4s1jk5e3b