Tag: Amsterdam
July 27, 1656: Baruch Spinoza Was Excommunicated
Bento de Spinoza was a young merchant in Amsterdam, one of many Sephardic Jews in that city involved in overseas trade in the early 1650s. The specialty of his family’s firm, which he and his brother Gabriel had been...
Syrian man smashes windows of kosher restaurant in Amsterdam for second time
A Syrian man was arrested on Friday for smashing the windows of a kosher restaurant in Amsterdam—the second time he has done so.
Saleh Ali, 31, was subdued with pepper spray by officers after he...
Fake bomb planted at kosher restaurant in Amsterdam
A fake bomb was placed at the entrance of an Israeli-owned kosher restaurant in Amsterdam on Wednesday.
The “bomb,” a cardboard box with masking tape fastening wires and an electric trigger mechanism to the top,...
יונגע ייִדישיסטן פֿאַרברענגען אַ סוף־וואָך אין אַמסטערדאַם
אין מײַ 2019 האָט „די ייִדישע שטוב לאָנדאָן‟ — אַ גרופּע יונגע ייִדישיסטן וואָס פֿירן דורך ייִדישע אונטערנעמונגען אין דער ענגלישער קרוינשטאָט — אָנגעהױבן אַן אייגנאַרטיקן פּראָיעקט צו פֿאַרשטאַרקן די סאָציאַלע און קולטורעלע נעץ...
Friend of Anne Frank’s opens up about German official who saved her family
A friend of Anne Frank’s from Amsterdam released a new memoir about the little known German official and lawyer Hans Calmeyer, who saved her family and others from the Holocaust.
In Shedding Our Stars: A Story of Hans...
Shabbat in Amsterdam
My alarm blared obnoxiously at 8 AM--a wakeup call to rub the sleep from my eyes and prepare for another day of my winter break travels in Amsterdam. Nervously tiptoeing around my sleeping friend...
Dutch professor questions Holocaust on TV, calls Jews ‘parasites’
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — A professor emeritus from an esteemed university in the Netherlands whose father was a Nazi called Jews “parasites” in a televised interview.
Jan Tollenaere, a lecturer on medicinal chemistry who retired from...
Attacker of kosher Amsterdam restaurant fought in Syria
The man whom Dutch police released hours after he attacked a kosher restaurant while waving a Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) flag reportedly is a Damascus-born ex-combatant in Syria’s civil war, JTA reported Wednesday, citing the Dutch news site GeenStijl.
The...
Palestinian who vandalized Amsterdam kosher eatery says he’s not anti-Semitic
A Palestinian immigrant who smashed the windows of a kosher restaurant in the Dutch capital while holding his national flag said the attack was neither over Jerusalem nor anti-Semitic.
The 29-year-old man, who was not...
Muslim man holding palestinian flag attacks Kosher restaurant in Amsterdam
AMSTERDAM — Police are investigating the smashing of the windows of a kosher restaurant in a heavily-Jewish part of the Dutch capital by a man wearing a Palestinian flag.
The incident at HaCarmel restaurant occurred...