Dutch Jews

The atrium at the Beth Shalom nursing home in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. (courtesy of BOP architecten)

Amsterdam’s Jewish nursing home has lost over 20% of its residents to COVID-19. Could it have done more?

Holland’s Health Ministry was asked to review “the possibility that mistakes were made” at Beth Shalom that led to the high death toll.

A French-speaking man pulling a kippah that he wore as a face mask back on his head.

In Purim coronavirus joke, Dutch synagogue asks congregants to wear kippahs over their mouths

“The executive board of the community and the health department of Raalte thank you in advance for your cooperation!” its social media post reads.

The Rintel Menorah on display at the Jewish Historical Museum of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. (Courtesy of the Jewish Cultural Quarter/JCK)

In Amsterdam, the world’s priciest menorah gets a new life

The 266-year-old Rintel Menorah, last valued at $563,000, was saved from the public auction block and is now preserved at the Amsterdam Jewish Historical Museum.

Dutch-Jewish Tob Cohen after a fight with his wife in 2019 near Nairobi, Kenya. (Courtesy of the family)

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Wife of Dutch-Jewish businessman who went missing in Nairobi is arrested

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Dozens of synagogues to open to public on 20th European Days of Jewish Culture

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Dutch Jewish leader protests comparisons between burqa ban and the Holocaust

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Netherlands Jewish leader tortured and robbed at home by 4 men

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Claiming threats of violence by Jews, Dutch Holocaust museum nixes event about Syrian refugees

Bodies of murdered Jews from Hungary being burned at Auwschwitz in 1944. (Alberto Errera/Auschwitz Memorial and Museum)

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Dutch Holocaust museum leaves out graphic Auschwitz pictures from exhibition

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Dutch senator-elect says her Twitter Holocaust jokes were just tasteless sarcasm

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