According to the annual report of the Nethrlands Ashkenazi Congregation which has just been published, its membership decreased slightly during the past year by over 200 people, to 11, 345. Nearly nine thousand of them live in Amsterdam, The Hague and Rotterdam. The other 500 members live scattered all over the country in 35 congregations. The Netherlands Liberal Congregation has about 2000 members and the Sephardi congregation about 800. (By Henriette Boas)
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