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An alleged "Jew hunt" was announced well in advance in the messaging app Telegram, prompting rioters to travel from far outside Amsterdam to attack Maccabi Tel Aviv fans and Jewish people ...
Speaking at an event marking Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, Mayor Femke Halsema said that civil servants in Amsterdam played an active role in the murder of some thousands of Jewish ...
“It’s really so, so manipulative… It only makes everything worse,” Jaïr Stranders, a local theater director and a board member of the Liberal Jewish Community of Amsterdam told CN ...
AMSTERDAM—Dutch authorities said they were tightening security to protect Jews and Jewish sites as they investigate an overnight wave of violence in which Israeli soccer fans were chased and ...
Ajax is a football club with Jewish history — Amsterdam was home to the majority of the country’s Jews prior to the Holocaust, and Ajax fans, nodding to the team’s roots, have in the past ...
Amsterdam was the city that hid Anne Frank, the most famous example of righteous Gentiles taking risks on behalf of Jewish neighbors. And then there was Ajax. In the 1950s and ’60s, the few ...
Portrait of Peter Stuyvesant. The first organized Jewish migration to North America, which arrived in the New Amsterdam colony founded by the Dutch West India Company in September 1654 ...
By Claire Moses Eighty years since the end of World War II, Mayor Femke Halsema of Amsterdam apologized on Thursday for the city’s role in the persecution of its Jewish residents during the ...