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Dutch Jews

Cantors and musicians perform at the annual Hanukkah event at the Royal Concert Hall in Amsterdam, Dec. 22, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Eduardus Lee)
Posted inHanukkah

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

by JTA December 7, 2020December 7, 2020

There’s a huge pipe organ where the Torah ark should be, but otherwise this city’s Royal Concert Hall looks, sounds and feels like a synagogue for one night each year. […]

a bald man in a black judge's robe sits in a chair
Posted inWorld

In the Netherlands, judges can fine and lock up Jewish men who refuse to give their wives a religious divorce

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA August 19, 2020
looking up at an ornate synagogue facade
Posted inWorld

In Western Europe, a Jewish ‘Community’ is like an expensive members-only club

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA July 29, 2020July 29, 2020
a man gets his face up close to a wall to inspect details
Posted inWorld

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

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA June 30, 2020
Selma van de Perre signs her book at the National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam, Jan. 9, 2020. (JTA/Cnaan Liphshiz)
Posted inHolocaust Remembrance Day, World, History, Holidays, News

At 97, a Dutch resistance hero wants to give fellow Jewish fighters overdue recognition

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA January 21, 2020January 21, 2020
Knoop speaking on the phone
Posted inArt, Culture, Film, TV & Film

‘Menten Affair’: How Dutch journalist brought down Nazi war criminal

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz February 24, 2017March 23, 2018
black and white photo of a family standing in a city street
Posted inCulture, Film, TV & Film

1939 silent film of wedding offers Netherlands a look at prewar Jewish life

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz February 5, 2017March 23, 2018

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