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amsterdam
Amsterdam to pay Jewish community $11M for Holocaust survivor taxes
Jewish Journal
May 24, 2016
The city of Amsterdam will give its Jewish community $11 million as compensation for taxes imposed on Holocaust survivors who returned home to the Dutch capital following World War II.
El Al plane damaged in Amsterdam with passengers aboard, none injured
Jewish Journal
February 19, 2016
An El Al plane was badly damaged in an accident caused by a local employee of Schiphol Airport, the Netherlands’ main hub for international traffic.
Anti-Semitism a ‘recurrent problem’ in Dutch schools, gov’t report says
Jewish Journal
February 8, 2016
Anti-Semitism is a persistent problem in some Dutch schools and especially among Muslim pupils, according to a new government-commissioned report on discrimination in education.
Record number visit Anne Frank House
Jewish Journal
January 4, 2016
The Anne Frank House had a record number of visitors for the sixth consecutive year.
France train gunman identified as Islamist militant
Jewish Journal
August 23, 2015
Fingerprint evidence shows that the gunman overpowered by passengers on a train in France is a Morrocan known to European authorities as a suspected Islamist militant, according to a source familiar with the case.
Shots fired on Amsterdam-to-Paris train, three injured
Jewish Journal
August 21, 2015
Three people were wounded in a shooting incident on high-speed train between Amsterdam and Paris on Friday, the French Interior Ministry said.
Coffee in Amsterdam with Anne Frank’s Best Friend
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
February 9, 2015
Next month is the 70th anniversary of the death of Anne Frank. The exact date that she died in Bergen-Belsen in 1945 is not known other than it is in the first few days of March.
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