AMSTERDAM (JTA) — The Netherlands’ third largest party, which is a potential coalition partner, distances itself from calls by some of its younger leaders to ban circumcision. In an email sent last week to JTA, Roy Kramer, a senior spokesperson for the D66 left-leaning party last week wrote that his party, which in the March…
Dutch tourists can now roam former Nazi bunkers and tunnels for less than $10 per person. The new attraction in The Hague is made out of a restored Nazi fortification system, the Atlantikwall, which was made to prevent an invasion from the Allies. The bunkers were refurbished and opened to tourists in an effort to…
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — In a country where sex toys are displayed in shop windows and television commercials often feature nudity, a picture of a clothed, heterosexual couple kissing may not seem like the stuff of scandal. But precisely such an image — part of a poster campaign celebrating diversity in the Netherlands — has triggered…
(JTA) — Responding to a restitution claim by a Holocaust survivor, the Dutch national railway company referred him to its customer service department — which told him they cannot find his paperwork. Salo Muller, who was a boy when he was separated from his parents 75 years ago in Amsterdam before their murder in a…
(JTA) – The only kosher slaughterhouse in the Netherlands is facing closure because of a government-introduced ban on exporting its produce, the abattoir’s lawyer said. Herman Loonstein made the assertion in a letter he sent last week on behalf of the Slagerij Marcus abattoir to leaders of the Dutch Jewish community. A clause in the…
(JTA) — WESTERBORK, Netherlands (JTA) — Nothing about the footage that Rudolf Breslauer filmed here on May 30, 1944, suggests that it was taken inside one of Europe’s largest Nazi concentration camps. In the film by Breslauer, a German-Jewish inmate of the Westerbork camp in Holland’s northeast, prisoners are seen playing soccer enthusiastically in team…
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — A Dutch local politician from The Hague is accused of making misogynistic threats at a woman who criticized his anti-Israel vitriol. The abuse by Abdoe Khoulani of The Hague was recorded by Anneke Brons, whom he called from his cellular phone. “Anneke, go learn how to write Dutch,” Khoulani said earlier this…
Several Dutch parents were dumbfounded on Monday when they discovered in their children’s coloring book a paint-by-letter drawing of Adolf Hitler, making the Nazi salute and wearing an armband with a swastika on his left arm. Photos of the controversial drawing were shared on social media, which prompted Kruidvat, the Dutch retailer that sold the…
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