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Meet Mayor Cohen
Amsterdam Mayor Job Cohen’s office is in a sun-drenched room overlooking the city’s main canal, the Amstel. On table in the center sat four glasses emblazoned with the city’s logo, which also adorns the outside of the building, the ID pass I was issued, and a flag that flies from the building’s roof. The logo: three red "X"’s. Talk about unsubtle. Read more »
Is Geert Wilders Dividing Muslims and Jews?
You read all about the problems between Jews and Muslims in Europe, and then you actually see it. Read more »
Vote Now!
Finalists have been picked for TWJ’s iPod competition. Click this link to choose where I go next. My editors have winnowed the field to 10 finalists (and I know which one I’m pulling for, but I guess I can’t say now, can I?) Read more »
Diamonds are Forever
Actually, they’re not. But they are important, indeed crucial, to understanding the Jewish community of Antwerp. Read more »
Partying like a young Jew in Europe
One rabbi's recipe for young European Jews to find their mates: a weekend for hundreds of Jewish singles at a nice hotel with good food, lots of alcohol and a hot party on Saturday night. Read more »
Antwerpen
Brussels Central Station is so unremarkable you could miss it. Even inside, I wasn’t sure I had found the right place. Read more »
Belgian Waffles
They are everything you expect them to be, and then some. Maybe I was just hungry and hadn’t eaten anything since the crappy hotel breakfast in Copenhagen before dawn, but from the first bite there was no doubt it was the finest waffle I’ve ever tasted. It was literally the first thing for sale when I stepped form the train at Brussels Central Station. I took a bite and stepped outside, into clear blue skies and mild temperatures, and for a moment ... I don’t know. It was good. Read more »
RSS Feed Breaking News
Updated 11/20/09 @ 11:30AM EDT
- Canada's opposition Liberal Party is crying foul after the ruling Conservatives mailed out flyers extolling themselves as stronger supporters of Israel.
- Israel arrested five Palestinian Authority intelligence officers in the West Bank.
- Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Israel is conducting secret negotiations with Hamas.
- Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was welcomed Thursday in Brazil by a state governor who is Jewish.
- Prominent South African Jewish leader and philanthropist Mendel Kaplan has died at the age of 73.
- Canadian Liberals object after Conservatives say they’re stronger Israel backers
- Israel arrests five P.A. officers
- Abbas: Israel talking to Hamas
- Abbas welcomed by Jewish pol in Brazil
- South African Jewish leader Mendel Kaplan dies
- Israel will send ship to NATO anti-terror force
- Obama: New Iran sanctions coming within weeks
- What should we bring? Thanksgiving foods that travel well
- Female Orthodox scholars helping women talk about sex
- Obama half-brother has Jewish roots
- Lieberman: Fort Hood could be terror attack
- J Street confab shows generational divide on Israel
- What really happened at the Reform biennial in Toronto
- Rubashkin convicted on 86 charges
- Obama shifts to Israel’s corner, but tries not to show it
- Sniffing underwear and other high jinks in satire on intermarriage
