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Michael Freilich, center, at a press conference in Antwerp Belgium announcing his entry into politics on January 21 2019. (Courtesy photo via JTA)
May 28, 2019, 7:01 pm
Belgian federal parliament welcomes first Orthodox Jewish lawmaker
Michael Freilich has vowed to work in parliament to reverse a de facto ban on producing halal and kosher meat in much of the country
By JTA
Joods Actueel editor-in-chief Michael Freilich. (Screen capture YouTube)
January 23, 2019, 12:15 am
Jewish paper editor enters Belgian politics to fight Kosher slaughter ban
Michael Freilich will be first Orthodox Jew in lower house with his expected entry to parliament
By Cnaan Liphshiz
President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas delivers a speech at the European Union Parliament in Brussels on June 23, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / JOHN THYS)
July 8, 2016, 9:58 pm
Belgian Jewish paper demands EU action on Abbas ‘blood libel’
Referring to PA chief’s false talk of rabbis wanting to poison Palestinian wells, editor Michael Freilich urges ‘unambiguous rejection of this anti-Jewish incitement’
By JTA
Visitors to the former Nazi death camp Sobibor, in eastern Poland, wander through the recently excavated remains of the gas chambers on Nov. 11, 2014. (photo credit: Lena Klaudel)
January 19, 2016, 8:37 pm
Belgian Jewish newspaper complains over interview with Holocaust denier
De Morgen daily comes under fire for piece on far-right sympathizer Siegfried Verbeke, who claims that no one died in Nazi gas chambers
By JTA
An ultra-Orthodox father walks his children to Antwerp's Jesode Hatorah school. (illustrative photo: Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)
August 20, 2013, 2:21 am
Belgium’s defiant Haredi schools may be shuttered
Refusal to teach legally required secular topics could lead to fatal loss of government funding
By Cnaan Liphshiz
May 22, 2013, 1:19 pm
Belgian party leader stepping down ‘temporarily’ over slur
Wrote ‘a few Jewish families that monopolize the banking world’ caused Europe’s financial crisis
March 28, 2013, 1:36 pm
Half of Belgian Muslim teens hold anti-Semitic views
Survey shows Muslim students are seven times more likely than non-Muslims to agree that ‘Jews foment war’
February 7, 2013, 6:38 pm
School no longer forced to teach anti-Zionist’s sons
Publicly funded Haredi academy in Belgium won’t need to go co-ed
Flemish Minister-President Kris Peeters, second from left, visits Belgium's new Holocaust Museum in Mechelen in November. (Courtesy of Kris Peeters Vlaams via JTA)
January 22, 2013, 11:36 pm
Divided Belgium finally admits Holocaust complicity
Long after most of Western Europe, country acknowledges its widespread involvement in the deportation of Jews
By Cnaan Liphshiz
January 22, 2013, 1:33 am
Ethics board summons Belgian doctor over Israel boycott
Order of Physicians holds hearing to discuss efforts to block sales of Teva pharmaceuticals
Moshe Friedman and his wife, Lea Rosenzweig, hold an improvised press conference outside Antwerp's Benoth Jerusalem, an all-female Haredi school forced by a Belgian judge to educate their sons. (Cnaan Liphshiz via JTA)
January 15, 2013, 2:06 am
Anti-Zionist provocateur wins case, makes enemies in Antwerp
Is Moshe Friedman — a supporter of Hamas and an alleged Holocaust denier — fighting for his sons’ religious education, or using them as a legal weapon?
By Cnaan Liphshiz
December 28, 2012, 5:42 pm
Antwerp Jewish girls school forced to admit boys
Benoth Jeruzalem will be fined for failure to comply with request of anti-Zionist father who participated in 2006 Holocaust denial conference in Iran
Members of the Israel Defense Forces band were called "stinking murderers" by protesters during their annual tour of Europe this week. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)
November 22, 2012, 6:52 am
IDF band’s European tour takes nasty turn during Gaza operation
A bomb threat and chants of ‘Jews to the gas’ provide the low points of young musicians’ annual concert series
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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