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Before you start your exploration, stop in at the visitor's center (located just outside the Jewish Quarter's Dung Gate), where you'll find information on City of David sites and guided tours.
Night - Scattered showers with a 58% chance of precipitation. Winds NE at 6 to 9 mph (9.7 to 14.5 kph). The overnight low will be 77 °F (25 °C). Cloudy with a high of 85 °F (29.4 °C) and a 51% ...
These houses are run without profit by the Rothschilds of Paris. Whitechapel, the Jewish quarter of London, contains many unsanitary buildings and presents a health problem which the London County ...
the Central Jewish Consultation (CJO) and the Center for Information and Documentation on Israel (CIDI), have positively received Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema’s apology for the role the Dutch ...
The two main Jewish organizations in the Netherlands have positively received Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema’s apology for the role the Dutch municipality played in the persecution of its Jewish ...
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“The Amsterdam government, when it came down to it, was not heroic, not determined and not merciful. And it let its Jewish residents down terribly,” said Halsema. “On behalf of the city ...
Speaking at an event marking Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, Mayor Femke Halsema said that civil servants in Amsterdam played an active role in the murder of some thousands of Jewish ...
By Claire Moses Eighty years since the end of World War II, Mayor Femke Halsema of Amsterdam apologized on Thursday for the city’s role in the persecution of its Jewish residents during the ...
His first time in Israel was 1948. Born and raised in the mellah (Jewish quarter) of Marrakesh, my father left Morocco for Paris in 1946. On May 14, 1948 – the day of Israel’s declaration of ...
“We wanted an event that maps out what exists today in common between the contemporary art world and the Jewish world,” said Ram Ozeri, the event’s organizer. “I am interested in where the world of ...