Belgium

Maria Nowak receiving Flemish Prime Minister Jan Jambon to her 100th birthday celebration at her home in Krakow, Poland on Jan. 20, 2020. (Tytus Kondracki)

Belgian leader celebrates Holocaust rescuer’s 100th birthday

Flemish prime minister Jan Jambon visited Maria Nowak, who risked everything to save her Jewish schoolmate, en route to a Holocaust Remembrance Day event in Poland.

By Cnaan Liphshiz January 22, 2020 3:31 pm

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Belgian Holocaust museum cancels event honoring activist who promotes Israel sanctions

A Catholic organization was to recognize Brigitte Herremans, who has said that supporters of Israel “vastly inflate” anti-Semitism.

December 12, 2019 2:27 pm

Puppets of Jews on display at the Aalst Carnaval in Belgium on March 3, 2019. Courtesy of FJO

Belgian parade that mocked Jews gives up its UNESCO endorsement

Ahead of a vote that threatened to remove the Aalst Carnival from a list of important human cultural expressions, the city voluntarily surrendered the designation.

December 2, 2019 2:42 pm

Brussels Region Foreign Trade Secretary Pascal Smet in Brussels, Belgium on June 8, 2016. (Courtesy of the office of Pascal Smet)

Belgian officials boycott trade delegation to Israel

By Cnaan Liphshiz November 29, 2019 5:54 am

Belgian Prime Minister Sophie Wilmes at her office in Brussels on Oct. 27, 2019. (Vincent Duterne/Getty Images)

Belgium’s first female prime minister is Jewish

By Cnaan Liphshiz October 28, 2019 9:47 am

A caricature of an Orthodox Jew on a ribbon ahead of the Aalst 2020 carnaval. (Courtesy of FJO)

The Belgium parade anti-Semitism controversy continues, with caricatures of Orthodox Jews ahead of 2020 event

By Cnaan Liphshiz October 22, 2019 10:26 am

Jewish journalist who covered Belgium’s ritual slaughter ban enters politics to end it

By Cnaan Liphshiz January 22, 2019 4:12 pm

Belgian imam called to ‘burn Zionists’ in 2009 video

By Cnaan Liphshiz January 9, 2019 7:59 am

Belgian ban on kosher slaughter has Jews worried about what comes next

By Cnaan Liphshiz January 4, 2019 11:52 am

Law banning ritual slaughter of animals to become effective in Belgium

By Cnaan Liphshiz December 31, 2018 1:28 pm

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