Interview with Henri Markens Demographic research by the Jewish social organization JMW shows that three-quarters of the Dutch Jewish community, which numbers about 30,000, is not organized in one of the three religious organizations-the Ashkenazi, Progressive, and Portuguese. Among other … [Read More]
Category Archives: 2009
The battle against old and new campus anti-Semitism is usually fought with classic methods. These include public debate, op-eds, letters to the editor, petitions, letters to university administrations or efforts to persuade them to take action, requests for the investigation … [Read More]
Ajax, a leading Amsterdam soccer team, was Dutch champion many times and winner of the European Club Championship on several occasions. However, discussion of the soccer club and game in Simon Kuper’s book is, for the most part, a means … [Read More]
Important new trends and major challenges have reshaped the field of Jewish education over the past two decades. An overarching development has been families’ insistence on choice as they try to find the schools and programs offering the best fit … [Read More]
Interview with Shmuel Trigano The way a country’s population views the Jews largely determines their position in its society. This is often far more important than the Jews’ own behavior. The French perception of the Jews is different from how … [Read More]
Interviews with Wim Kok, Gerrit Zalm, and Els Borst. In the final five years of the previous century, major international attention was focused on the postwar restitution of Holocaust assets. In particular, dormant Swiss bank accounts became a subject of … [Read More]
Are we whitewashing events in Norway? Last year at this time, the comedian Otto Jespersen said in his weekly program on the major Norwegian commercial television station TV2: “I would like to take the opportunity to remember all the billions … [Read More]
Can the Koran be compared to ‘Mein Kampf’? Last week the Amsterdam Court of Appeal ruled that the attorney-general should bring a case against Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders. This leader of the right-wing Freedom Party has made a number of … [Read More]