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Dutch descendant of Righteous Among the Nations fights for Israeli residency

The Interior Ministry rejected Ellen Monique Tjittes' application, citing an age restriction that her attorney says conflicts with the procedure and a January 2026 court ruling.

Ellen Monique Tjittes, a 56-year-old Dutch Christian whose grandfather and great-grandparents were recognized as Righteous Among the Nations.
Police officers stand next to pro-Palestinian protesters outside the University of Amsterdam during a protest, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 8, 2024

Netherlands to prohibit imports, sales of West Bank settlement products

CLOSE, PERSONAL friend: Famous Dutch footballer Johan Cruyff, inside Amsterdam’s Ajax Arena Stadium.

During the 2026 FIFA World Cup, remember: Jewish players need serious rabbinical advice - opinion

One of the 3,000 artifacts discovered in Drenthe, the Netherlands, June 19, 2026.

Archaeologists find over 3,000 artifacts from Stone Age to WWII in Netherlands valley


Dutch university removes ‘from the river to the sea’ banner after protests

“This chant isn’t about supporting a Palestinian state but all about expelling the Jews from Israel. This will never happen,” wrote Ronny Naftaniel, chairman of the Netherlands CJO.

Kosovo Albanians shout slogans and hold banners against violence in Gaza and in support for the free Palestine during a march in Pristina

Dutch museum pays thousands to compensate for looted Nazi art

The descendants of Richard Semmel's family friends were granted 200,000 euros by the Museum de Fundatie in Zwolle in the Netherlands, where the previously-owned painting currently sits.

Christ and the Samaritan Woman by  Bernardo Strozzi (1581–1644), dated to the first half of 17th century, and currently belonging to the collection of the Museum de Fundatie in Zwolle, the Netherlands.

Dutch daily apologizes for drawing Jewish pollster as a puppet master

The caricature depicted a leering Maurice de Hond holding a set of marionette strings. The editor in chief said it recall[s] too many memories of anti-Semitic caricatures of the Nazi period."

Maurice de Hond depicted as a puppet master in the Volkskrant newspaper in the Netherlands on April 19, 2021.

A riveting exploration of human doubts depicted in new book

Even though its author is a professional psychiatrist, this is far from a dry-as-dust scientific textbook.

Deference to Doubt: A young man’s quest for religious identity in first-century Judea

Israeli-Dutch Jew leads new progressive party into Dutch parliament

Israeli- Dutch Jew Itay Garmy ran the campaign for a new progressive political party, Volt, which won three seats in this week’s national election.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Dutch Parliament.

Scream, not swab: Did a Dutch inventor just discover a new COVID test?

Instead of unpleasant nasal swab tests, Peter van Wees asks participants to step into an air locked cabin and to scream, or sing.

Peter van Wees opens the door so John Moritz can exit the quick breath analyzer cabin that tests for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at a testing location in Amsterdam, Netherlands March 1, 2021.

Lockdown lifted: Israel Museum reopens featuring Dutch art exhibit

After a long string of lockdowns, the beloved cultural institution has reopened. What's on show?

THE SALT of the Earth exhibition features fascinating portrayals of the Dutch working class by leading Jewish artists  of the mid-late 19th century.

Dutch parliament: China's treatment of Uighurs is genocide

China in response denies any human rights abuses in Xinjiang and says its camps provide vocational training and are needed to fight extremism.

A Jewish man who identified himself as Andrew protests the oppression of China's Uighurs outside the Chinese Embassy in London, Jan. 5, 2020.

Dutch right-wing politician calls Nuremberg trials ‘illegitimate’

Political rivals and CIDI, Dutch Jewry’s watchdog on antisemitism, said Baudet’s remark was “shocking.”

Nazi defendants (left to right, front row) Hermann Goring, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop and Wilhelm Keitel sit in the dock of their war crimes trial at Nuremberg

‘Jew cookies,’ a Dutch dessert staple, are getting a new name

The name change comes at a time when companies the world over are assessing their product lines to ensure that they are culturally appropriate — a reckoning that is hitting the food world hard.

Renee Pater presents the design for the new label that her company, Patisserie Pater, produces in Zwaagdijk, the Netherlands.