Indonesia’s last synagogue has been destroyed, a Dutch news site reported. Unidentified persons demolished the Beith Shalom synagogue in Surabaya on the island of Java to its foundations sometime earlier this year, according to a report on Indoweb.nl. The synagogue has seen a number of anti-Israel protests staged in front of it and was sealed…
Jewish and non-Jewish volunteers rededicated a 200-year-old Dutch Jewish cemetery after decades of neglect. The opening of the cemetery in Woerden in the center of the Netherlands on Wednesday was its first since 1973, de Week Krant reported. Jewish and Christian volunteers worked for six months to restore the headstones at the cemetery, according to…
The Netherlands opposes any kind of import ban on Israeli products, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said, though it must enforce European Union legislation on labeling settlement goods. “I would like to stress that the Netherlands opposes any type of import ban or the boycott of Israeli products,” a Dutch official wrote in Rutte’s name…
Dutch infrastructure giant Royal HaskoningDHV announced that it has decided to withdraw from a project it planned with the Jerusalem municipality because it will be built over the Green Line. Two weeks ago, Haaretz reported that the Dutch government has asked the company, Holland’s largest engineering company to rethink its participation the sewage treatment plant…
A 92-year-old who served in the Waffen-SS, Adolf Hitler’s elite Nazi troops, went on trial on Monday in the western city of Hagen on charges of having shot in the back and killed a Dutch resistance fighter at the end of World War Two. In an televised interview with broadcaster Das Erste, accused killer Siert…
A city in eastern Holland has pledged nearly $750,000 for restoring a museum to its previous function as a synagogue. The switch will become possible in 2015, when the natural science museum in Nijmegen leaves its current building, the Dutch regional daily De Gelderlander reported Thursday. Jem van den Burg, the head of a nonprofit…
A farewell party for former Queen Beatrix scheduled on Yom Kippur was canceled due to the death of her son. The Dutch Royal House postponed the Sept. 14 gala until early next year, according to a report Thursday by the NRC Handelsblad daily. Prince Johan Friso, 44, died Aug. 12 as a result of injuries…
A town near Rotterdam has signed over its ancient Jewish cemetery to the Dutch Jewish community. City officials from Werkendam re-registered the 19th century cemetery as belonging he Dutch Israelite Religious Community, or NIK, the municipality said this week. The mayor of Werkendam, a town of 25,000, signed the deed of ownership last month. It…
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