Dutch Jews

Cantors and musicians perform at the annual Hanukkah event of the Royal Concert Hall in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on Dec. 22, 2019. (Eduardus Lee)

How Hanukkah returned to Amsterdam’s Royal Concert Hall decades after the Holocaust

A cantor from New York who works in tech is behind the recent revival of a holiday tradition that the Nazis had halted for 70 years.

A child poses for a photo with a woman dressed as Black Pete and a man portraying Saint Nicholas in northern Amsterdam, the Netherlands on Nov. 16, 2019. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

Amsterdam’s Jewish museum wades into Dutch blackface controversy with new exhibition

The exhibition shows that the man who first depicted the controversial Black Pete character penned a popular series of anti-Semitic booklets.

The global proportion of Jews living in Europe is as low as it was 1,000 years ago. And the future there doesn’t look bright.

Rising rates of intermarriage, a low reproductive rate and high levels of anti-Semitism are chipping away at the continent’s Jewish population, a landmark demographic study has found.

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)

Global

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

Global

Blow shofar sparingly and outside, Dutch rabbis warn worshippers

Global

Dutch-Jewish resistance fighter whose factory was used to make yellow stars dies at 98

Global

Dutch national rail company offers $5.6 million for Holocaust-era transport of Jewish victims

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)

Global

Amsterdam to contribute $5.6 million for Holocaust museum makeover

Global

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

Global

Hans Calmeyer is remembered for saving thousands of Jews. A Holocaust survivor says he sent her to Auschwitz.

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