Hidden in plain sight
Jewish Journal
April 23, 2014
Harry Davids was about 6 years old when his parents called him into the bedroom of their home in South Africa to deliver a message he will never forget.
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holland
Dutch museum to move, reopen as synagogue
Jewish Journal
August 23, 2013
A city in eastern Holland has pledged nearly $750,000 for restoring a museum to its previous function as a synagogue.
Dutch commission calls for freezing ties with Israel
Jewish Journal
July 2, 2013
Holland’s ruling party rejected a recommendation by the country’s foreign policy advisory council to negotiate with Hamas and freeze ties with Israel over settlements.
Survivor: Charlotte Seeman
Jane Ulman
May 29, 2013
Charlotte Seeman — then Charlotte Leiter — spotted the barbed-wire fence ahead. She and her companions — a young woman from Vienna as well as the woman’s boyfriend and uncle — climbed over and continued walking. It was a cold night in December 1939, and they had crossed the German border near the intersection of Belgium and Holland.
Historic mikvah to be displayed at Holland museum
Jewish Journal
September 12, 2011
A mikvah uncovered during construction will be restored in a museum as the oldest testament to Jewish life in Holland to date.
Hirsi Ali, critic of Islam, honored for courage
Tom Tugend
October 30, 2008
A tall African-born woman, raised a devout Muslim but now one of Islam\’s sharpest critics, last week calmly dismantled some of the favorite shibboleths of American liberalism.
Films: Romantic triangle survives in the midst of hell
Tom Tugend
November 9, 2007
\”I\’m a very special Holocaust survivor,\” Jack Polak says. \”I was in the camps with my wife and my girlfriend, and, believe me, it wasn\’t easy.\” This may sound like a line from the new genre of Holocaust films with humor, but Polak (who is Jacob on his birth certificate, Jack in America, Jaap to his Dutch friends and Jab to his wife) is just stating the facts in the documentary feature, \”Steal a Pencil for Me.\”
‘War on terror’ needs Muslims to be part of solution
Mona Eltahawy
November 2, 2007
How do you prevent that young Muslim from being lured by radical ideas? That was the question at the heart of a conference organized at The Hague recently by the Dutch national coordinator for counterterrorism. As Tariq Ramadan reminded the conference, preventative methods are bound to fail unless they include Muslims as part of the solution. To only view Muslims as potential radicals is the quickest way to alienate the very people needed to solve the problems.
Anti-Semitism Acts Climb in Holland
Rachel Levy
January 15, 2004
Anti-Semitic acts in Holland rose significantly in 2002, but few cases were serious, according to a new report.
World Briefs
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
January 23, 2003
Saudi Arabia must reduce its support for terror or suffer the consequences, Democratic presidential candidate Joseph Lieberman said. Speaking Sunday in New York, the Connecticut senator said he told the Saudis during his recent trip through the Middle East that if they don\’t change their backing for terror, \”our relationship with them will not go on as before.\”
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