The chief rabbi of Amsterdam, who has seen his authority diminished in recent years, said he will resign in September. Aryeh Ralbag, a New York native who has held the nonsalaried position since 2005, cited his “inability to combine other work in the United States and Israel with tasks in Amsterdam,” according to a report…
Amsterdam’s mayor scrapped a vote to twin his municipality with Tel Aviv and Ramallah following opposition by left-wing parties on the city council. Mayor Eberhard van der Laan on Thursday scrapped the vote, which had been scheduled for July 1, according to TV5, because of opposition to the gesture by his own Labor Party, the…
‘The word ‘slave’ is used in this exhibition,” notes a wall text at “Jews in the Caribbean: Four Centuries of History in Suriname and Curacao” at Amsterdam’s Jewish Historical Museum. “The museum is aware of the controversial nature of this term. ‘Slaves,’ as used here, refers to African men, women, and children taken captive and…
A Dutch author published a book alleging that his aunt may have told Nazi authorities where to find Anne Frank and her family. The allegation appeared in a biography that was published Tuesday about the Dutch resistance activist Elisabeth “Bep” Voskuijl. The book, coauthored by Voskuijl’s son and the Flemish journalist Jeroen De Bruyn, explores…
A Dutch soccer club is working to identify fans who chanted anti-Semitic slogans about the Holocaust during a match with a rival team from Amsterdam. The chants were documented on Sunday at Galgenwaard Stadium in Utrecht, a city situated 40 miles southeast of the Dutch capital Amsterdam, during an honor division match between Amsterdam’s Ajax…
New research by the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam shows that the teenage diarist died earlier than previously believed. The exact date of Anne Frank’s death from typhus in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is unknown. At the end of World War II the Red Cross officially concluded that she died sometime during March 1945. But new…
Two Dutch mayors condemned the appearance of stickers featuring a cartoon nose on shops in a heavily Jewish suburb of the Dutch capital. The stickers were spotted earlier this month on the shop windows of several businesses in Amstelveen, a municipality just south of Amsterdam, which is home to approximately one third of the 50,000…
The Netherlands’ education minister attended the first lesson in a program which teaches school children about the Holocaust in a replica of the house where Anne Frank and her family hid from the Nazis. Minister Jet Bussemaker attended the first lesson of “Program ANNE” last week with 60 elementary school pupils at Theater Amsterdam —…
די צװיי יאַטן פֿון „ייִדלײַף־קריזיס‟ אַמפּערן זיך וועגן גאָט בשעת חיימי ווערט באַהאַנדלט אין שפּיטאָל צוליב אַ דעליקאַטן ענין
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