Amsterdam

Friend of Anne Frank lays first stone of Amsterdam’s newest Holocaust monument

“This is a special moment,” said Jacqueline van Maarsen, who donated more than $50,000 to a monument nearly 15 years in the works.

By Cnaan Liphshiz September 25, 2020 10:40 am

A car belonging to the Dutch security forces guarding the Maimonides and Rosj Pina Jewish schools in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on Nov. 25, 2019. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

Amsterdam Jewish schools lose city’s subsidy because of excess parent contributions, including for security

The defunding is part of a crackdown by a Dutch Labour politician that is meant to prevent socioeconomic gaps in institutions with government.

September 15, 2020 4:58 pm

Two men walk down a street in a residential area of Amsterdam, the Netherlands on April 23, 2017. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

Dutch man is acquitted after saying hackers sent anti-Semitic death threats from his computer

Police failed to record the messages despite multiple complaints by the victims, who have since been evicted. The Dutch Jewish community’s watchdog is furious.

September 1, 2020 10:12 am

The package discovered outside the HaCarmel kosher restaurant in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on Jan. 15, 2020. (Federatief Joods Nederland)

Dutch Moroccan gets 8 months in jail for fake bomb at kosher eatery

By Cnaan Liphshiz August 26, 2020 5:36 pm

A visitor examines pencill marks measuring the grwoth of Anne and Margot Frank in what used to be their parents' room at the Anne Frank House museum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on Nov. 24, 2016. (Photo Collection Anne Frank House)

With no tourists in Amsterdam, locals are discovering the Anne Frank House

By Cnaan Liphshiz June 30, 2020 12:11 pm

The Amsterdam building that used to house the Reform Seminary and children's detainment facility where Betty Goudsmit-Oudkerk helped saved hundreds of Jewish children. (Luuk Kramer/Courtesy of the Jewish Cultural Quarter of Amsterdam)

Dutch-Jewish WWII hero Betty Goudsmit-Oudkerk, who saved hundreds of children, dies at 96

By Cnaan Liphshiz June 16, 2020 8:55 am

Amsterdam to contribute $5.6 million for Holocaust museum makeover

By Cnaan Liphshiz June 5, 2020 10:40 am

Thousands of protesters defying social distancing measures at a protest over the death of George Floyd on Dam Square in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on June 1, 2020. (Robin Utrecht/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Dutch chief rabbi slams Amsterdam mayor for ignoring social distancing at mass Black Lives Matter protest

By Cnaan Liphshiz June 2, 2020 11:43 am

Jewish schools have reopened in the Netherlands, but some worry that their security is compromised

By Cnaan Liphshiz May 28, 2020 6:02 pm

Dani Rotstein stands next to a monumnet commemorating the Jews of Palma de Mallorca, Spain on Feb. 13, 2019. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

In Europe, budding Jewish tourism businesses are teetering on the brink of closure because of COVID-19

By Cnaan Liphshiz May 22, 2020 3:57 pm

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