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Rabbi Tamarah Benima (Malin G. Kundi/Wikimedia Commons via JTA)
November 1, 2021, 8:08 pm
Dutch Reform rabbi says COVID-19 policies remind her of Nazi Germany
Tamarah Benima, 71, was criticised by at least three Dutch Jewish groups
By JTA
October 11, 2021, 2:32 pm
Jewish names on-trend for Dutch non-Jews
Among the most common Dutch boys’ names of recent years have been Levi and Ezra, Simon and David
A surveillance camera can be seen next to a Star of David (Photo: Hendrik Schmidt/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa)
April 15, 2021, 3:46 pm
Netherlands’ antisemitism tally drops by 25 percent due to Covid-19 lockdowns
Annual report by the Center for Information and Documentation on Israel released Wednesday counted 135 incidents last year compared to 182 cases in 2019
By JTA
KLM airline (Wikipedia/ Author: Styyx/ Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
July 27, 2020, 2:51 pm
Dutch airline KLM discriminated when it asked woman to move for Orthodox man
Human rights watchdog says the firm 'made a gender discrimination against the couple by failing to provide a discrimination-free environment during a flight'
By JTA
Red and white wine, often produced in the West Bank and Golan heights . (A.Savin (Wikimedia Commons · WikiPhotoSpace))
July 17, 2020, 2:04 pm
Holland threatens to fine store selling wine from Hebron, labelled as Israeli
The warning came during an inspection of the Israel Products centre, an importer and retail outfit run by the pro-Israel group Christians for Israel.
By JTA
An empty room at the Anne Frank House museum in Amsterdam, where the diarist and her family hid for two years during the Holocaust.
July 10, 2020, 9:39 am
Amsterdam gets to know Anne Frank
In the tourist-free city, locals are finally seeing the Anne Frank House under Covid-19 restrictions
By Cnaan Liphshiz (JTA)
The National Holocaust Museum of the Netherlands in Amsterdam
May 31, 2020, 11:35 am
80% of Dutch cities involved in theft of Jewish property have no record of it
Among the 223 municipalities involved, four fifths have no data about theft according to a new report that’s generating a strong public response in the Netherlands.
By JTA
April 22, 2020, 12:12 pm
Dutch politician tweets Jewish yellow star to protest virus surveillance plan
Arnoud van Doorn, a councillor in The Hague who had previously called to 'exterminate the Zionists' shared the image on Adolf Hitler's birthday and just ahead of Yom HaShoah
By JTA
January 28, 2020, 12:47 pm
Germany gives £3.4m to Dutch Holocaust museum’s renovation
The museum will close down for two years so it can be redone, and will be turned into a single site with a larger capacity
By Jewish News Reporter
Google street view image of the Dutch national Holocaust museum.
January 14, 2020, 3:16 pm
Germany gives £3.4m to Dutch Holocaust museum’s renovation
The museum will close down for two years so it can be redone, and will be turned into a single site with a larger capacity
By JTA
Yellow Candle
January 12, 2020, 10:17 am
Dutch artist’s Shoah display uses light to commemorate murdered Jews
Daan Roosegaarde’s “Light of Life” project, which will feature in 150 municipalities, uses dark spaces with stones that light up briefly.
By JTA
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas
November 23, 2019, 4:21 pm
Netherlands cuts aid to Palestinian Authority over terrorist salaries
Aid ministry announced the move this week during annual budget talks, after the PA reportedly paid more than £150m to families of terrorists
By JTA
Screenshot from video on www.telegraaf.nl of the aftermath of the incident in Amsterdam
September 16, 2019, 3:44 pm
Stabber of Jewish father and son in Amsterdam ‘forgot’ why he assaulted them
Taha Ewis Bakri Abdel Ghani did not deny the assaults in March on Martin Colmans and his son Sharon, vendors in the Albert Cuyp Market, but didn't remember the motivation
By JTA
Anne Frank
June 28, 2019, 1:39 pm
Dutch rapper drops Anne Frank stage name following outcry over antisemitism
25-year-old performer whose real name is Anne van der Does will alter her stage title after outcry from communal groups
By JTA
Kosher slaughter
May 20, 2019, 9:39 am
Dutch animal rights party tries again to ban a kosher slaughter
Bill would ban the killing of animals for meat without stunning them first, which is essential for the kosher method of slaughter
By JTA
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