Dutch lawmaker Wim Kortenoeven resigned from his party in protest of its support for banning ritual slaughter, among other issues.
The Dutch senate voted to approve a deal to allow ritual slaughter in the Netherlands.
Tina Strobos, a medical student in Amsterdam during World War II who helped save more than 100 Jews from the Nazis, has died.
A bill to ban ritual slaughter was withdrawn by the Dutch Senate days before a scheduled vote.
A Dutch medical association has called on politicians and human rights groups to discourage male circumcision.
The Jewish community in Holland has its roots in those who fled persecution and discrimination to a land that has become acclaimed for its freedom of religion and expression.
A few streets over from the bookstore where Anne Frank bought her famous diary, the only kosher butcher shop in Holland is bustling. Two employees man the long counter at Slagerij Marcus, pausing from chopping meat to sell customers a bit of this or that for Shabbat dinner.
European Jewish groups slammed a decision by the lower house of the Dutch parliament to ban the ritual slaughter of animals. The Conference of European Rabbis President Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt called the ban an outrage that would prevent Jews from living a Jewish life in The Netherlands.
The Dutch Parliament has offered a compromise on a bill that would ban kosher slaughter.
Animal rights or Jewish rites? That is the question this week before the Tweede Kamer, the lower house of the Dutch parliament, as it considers a bill that effectively would prohibit shechitah, the Jewish ritual slaughter of animals.
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