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The synagogue in Deventer in the Netherlands was recently bought by Turkish developer Ayhan Sahin. (Martie Ressing/Wikimedia Commons via JTA)
April 17, 2018, 8:19 am
Dutch Jews protest Turkish developer’s plan to turn synagogue into eatery
Community in Deventer was unable to maintain 200-year-old national monument, which was sold first to a local church and then to entrepreneur
By JTA
Anne Frank House employee Barry Vingerling. (Facebook)
April 15, 2018, 3:04 am
Anne Frank House employee says he was barred from wearing kippa
Barry Vingerling says management told him religious symbols were not in line with museum's 'neutrality' efforts, relented after six months
By TOI staff
Pieter Heijs shows his product at his Hollandia Matzes factory in Enschede, the Netherlands, March 19, 2018. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)
March 31, 2018, 1:04 pm
How matzah became a household item for non-Jews in the Netherlands
Pieter Heijs, a co-owner of Hollandia Matzes in Enschede, is probably the only flatbread producer in the world who braces for losses, not earnings, during Passover
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Dutch lawmaker from the Christian Union party, Joël Voordewind, speaks in a campaign video uploaded online October 17, 2016. (screen capture: YouTube)
March 31, 2018, 1:04 am
Netherlands posts military attache to Iran, angering coalition partner
Citing Tehran's anti-Israel views and human rights record, lawmaker Joël Voordewind 'dismayed' Amsterdam seeking closer defense ties
By JTA
Interior of the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, consecrated in 1675. The sanctuary, still without electricity, is lit by 1,000 candles for special occasions, January 2018 (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)
March 25, 2018, 4:03 am
Why Amsterdam’s beloved nickname is a centuries-old Yiddish word, ‘Mokum’
Recalling a golden age for the Netherlands and Dutch Jewry, on today's streets of Amsterdam, mamaloshen still peppers local slang
By Matt Lebovic
A ritually slaughtered lamb being delivered to a halal butcher shop in The Hague, Netherlands, December 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
March 21, 2018, 7:45 am
Dutch animal welfare party proposes ban on ritual slaughter
Backed by liberals and nationalists alike, measure would overturn agreements with Jewish and Muslim communities to allow kosher and halal meat production
By JTA
A man waving a Palestinian flag smashed the windows of the HaCarmel kosher restaurant in Amsterdam, December 7, 2017. (Ginopress B.V./AFP/Getty Images/via JTA)
March 11, 2018, 3:18 am
Anti-Semitic vandalism in Holland rises 40% to highest level since 2007
Trend part of a small overall rise in anti-Jewish incidents in 2017 over 2016
By JTA
Denk party leaders Selcuk Ozturk, left, and Tunahan Kuzu, posing in The Hague, the Netherlands, on February 23, 2017. (Bart Maat/AFP/Getty Images via JTA)
March 10, 2018, 3:54 am
Dutch Muslim party won’t join Amsterdam coalition against anti-Semitism
Denk refuses to sign document saying Jew hatred should be fought and that city should help fund security for Jews
By JTA
Hamzeh Abu Hashem being bitten (YouTube screenshot)
February 23, 2018, 9:49 pm
Palestinian stone-thrower bitten by Israeli army dog sues Dutch breeder
Hamzeh Abu Hashem deeply traumatized by the incident, says his lawyer
By JTA
Soldiers stand guard in front of the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial in Yerevan, Armenia, during a commemoration ceremony for the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide, on April 24, 2015. (AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev)
February 21, 2018, 7:55 pm
Dutch lawmakers set to recognize Armenian ‘genocide’
Vote likely to ratchet up already strained relations with Turkey, which vehemently denies 1915 massacres sought to exterminate ethnic minority
By AFP
In this July 19, 2017, photo, Syrian refugee girls play in a corridor at the former prison of Bijlmerbajes in Amsterdam, Netherlands. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
February 21, 2018, 12:15 pm
Woman says Dutch aid group discriminated against her over Jewish ties
Politicians bash Syrian refugee organization for turning away job seeker who said she'd studied in Jerusalem
By JTA
Dutch Foreign Minister Halbe Zijlstra arrives for an EU Eastern Partnership summit at the European Council in Brussels, November 24, 2017. (AFP Photo/Emmanuel Dunand)
February 5, 2018, 3:42 pm
Netherlands pulls its envoy from Turkey as ties sour
Dutch FM says Ankara won't be allowed to post an ambassador in country until dispute sparked by expulsion of Turkish minister solved
By AFP
Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders of the PVV party (L), and Belgium's Vlaams Belang Flemish right-wing party leader Filip De Winter lead a protest march against the policy of Dutch Prime Minister and his cabinet in Rotterdam, on January 20, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / ANP / Robin UTRECHT / Netherlands OUT)
January 21, 2018, 6:09 pm
Dutch far-right protests against ‘discrimination’ in favor of immigrants
In run-up to local elections in March, populist politician Geert Wilders declares, 'We live here, not in Morocco, Turkey, or Saudi Arabia'
By AFP
At the Westerbork museum in the Netherlands, Bas Kortholt demonstrates a new virtual reality simulation based on the former Nazi transit camp's appearance during the Holocaust (Elan Kawesch/The Times of Israel)
January 15, 2018, 10:02 pm
At Westerbork, virtual reality simulations ‘recreate’ the Nazi transit camp
Holland-based museum pilots a new GPS-based model to let visitors envision the Holocaust site -- down to bricks, strands of barbed wire, and imperfections on wooden shingles
By Matt Lebovic
Illustrative: Thousands of stones with Stars of David on them memorialize 100,000 Jews who came through the Westerbork transit camp in the Netherlands on their way to Nazi death camps (Vanrijnr/Wikimedia Commons)
January 6, 2018, 10:25 am
Dutch remember Jewish psychiatric patients murdered by Nazis
Ceremony at Parnassia hospital takes place ahead of 75th anniversary of deportations from institution, which to many encapsulated heights of Nazi cruelty
By JTA
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