Netherlands

‘Jew cookies’ are a Dutch dessert staple. They’re getting a new name — and Dutch Jews are confused.

Consensus is crumbling around the snack, which has been around for centuries.

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Amsterdam mayor wants state to return $22 million Nazi-looted painting now in the city’s museum

Displaying the Kandinsky artwork in the museum outweighs the interests of its rightful owners, according to a Dutch restitution body.

The lost Torah scroll of Dordrecht, the Netherlands, measures 45 yards in lengths. (Courtesy of NIG)

In Holland, a Torah scroll returns to Jewish hands 80 years after it was hidden from the Nazis

The artifact was thought to have been lost along with the community that had used it.

SS veterans and their supporters march in Riga, Latvia on March 16, 2018. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

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Germany names Dutch SS veterans who receive pensions for serving Hitler

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Jewish baker iced out of Dutch Muslim political party — over her X-rated cakes

The Jewish Council of Amsterdam, the Netherlands during World War II. (Courtesy of the Jewish Cultural Quarter of Amsterdam)

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In Amsterdam, the personal card of every Holocaust victim returns to Jewish hands

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A Dutch Jewish cemetery has become a Black pilgrimage site

Bram van der Vlugt portrays Sinterklaas in Zeist, the Netherlands on Oct. 27, 2008. (Wikimedia Commons/R.F. (Roel) Jorna)

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Bram van der Vlugt, 86, Holocaust survivor who played Santa Claus on Dutch TV

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Dutch government criticizes country’s own Holocaust restitution policy that has blocked families from return of stolen art

Cantors and musicians perform at the annual Hanukkah event of the Royal Concert Hall in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on Dec. 22, 2019. (Eduardus Lee)

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How Hanukkah returned to Amsterdam’s Royal Concert Hall decades after the Holocaust

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