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Monday, November 11th 2024
SEARED INTO MEMORY 86 Years After Kristallnacht, Europe Is the Same: Nissan Shtrauchler, Israel Hayom, Nov. 10, 2024 — As Europe grapples with a surge in antisemitism, one of Germany’s most prominent Jewish leaders draws haunting parallels between current events and the infamous Night of Broken Glass. Only Four Anti-Israel Amsterdam ‘Pogrom’ Attackers Remain in Custody After 63 Detained: […]
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Leon de Winter WSJ, Nov. 8, 2024 “Since Oct. 7, 2023, these Moroccan youths have participated in weekly anti-Zionist demonstrators through the streets of Amsterdam.” A lot has changed in Amsterdam since 1945, but some things remain the same. During World War II, Amsterdam police, at the behest of German officers, hunted Jews. […]
David de Bruijn The Free Press, Nov. 8, 2024 “Many are shocked, wondering how this could happen in the Netherlands. To me, their bafflement is what’s shocking.” As the Amsterdam Jewish community joined with local officials to commemorate the 86th anniversary of Kristallnacht at the city’s Portuguese-Jewish synagogue—established by Jews who escaped the Inquisition—a pogrom […]
John Podhoretz Commentary, Nov. 8, 2024 “On three continents this week alone—Europe, North America, and Asia, where the Houthis and Hezbollah are again firing rockets and drones at Israel under the direction of Iran—they are coming after Jews every day.” Early Friday morning in Amsterdam, in the shadow of the house in which Anne Frank […]
Andrew C. McCarthy National Review, Nov. 8, 2024 “… such enclaves are crucibles of jihadism.” There is a lesson to be drawn from Thursday night’s sharia-supremacist pogrom against Jews — not Zionists, Jews — in the Islamic Emirate of Amsterdam, formerly known as the capital of the Netherlands, the beating heart of transnational-progressive, multicultural, post-sovereign Europe. It’s a […]
Friday, November 8th 2024
SHABBAT READING The Covenant of the Pieces: A Promise for All Generations?: Dr. Rabbi Zvi Grumet, The Torah.com, Nov. 7, 2024 — In Genesis, God establishes two covenants with Abraham. The first is Berit Bein ha-Betarim, “the Covenant of the Pieces” (Gen 15), and the second is Berit Mila, “the Covenant of Circumcision” (Gen 17). Although only […]
Jonathan Sacerdoti The Spectator World, Nov. 8, 2024 “The question isn’t whether what happened in Amsterdam could happen in London. It is when.” Last night in Amsterdam, a scene unfolded that should send shockwaves across Europe: hundreds of Jews were hunted and beaten by mobs following a soccer match between Maccabi Tel Aviv and […]
Stephen Kalin, Anat Peled, Benoit Faucon and Sune Engel Rasmussen WSJ, Nov. 8, 2024 “I thought I was going to die. Everyone was running like crazy.” Israel said it was sending planes to the Netherlands to evacuate citizens after street violence following a soccer game in Amsterdam, where Israeli fans were chased down and […]
Zvika Klein Jerusalem Post, Nov. 8, 2024 “The accumulation of activities leads to one goal—harming the State of Israel on the international level.” In the heart of Amsterdam’s Dam Square on May 15, 2022, an ominous scene unfolded. It was Nakba Day (marking the displacement of Palestinians during Israel’s 1948 War of Independence), and the […]
Canaan Lidor Times of Israel, Apr. 12, 2024 “Before October 7, European Jewry’s general attitude “was always like this: We live here, we like it here, we’re home here — and we have a life insurance policy, and that’s Israel,” Muzicant said. But October 7 is leaving many “at a loss of a compass, not […]
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