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Priceless Romanian artifacts recovered a year after being stolen from Dutch museum

The Dutch government last year paid 5.7 million euros to compensate Romania for the theft.

Golden Helmet of Cotofenesti and gold bracelets recovered after being stolen from a Dutch museum, April 3, 2026.
A view inside the Peter and Paul Church in Maastricht shows an excavation pit opened in the floor, where archaeologists believe they may have uncovered the skeletal remains of Charles de Batz de Castelmore, known as d’Artagnan, leader of King Louis XIV's musketeers, March 25, 2026.

Archaeologists may have found lost remains of French musketeer d'Artagnan in Dutch church

Vehicles outside a Jewish school following an explosion that caused minor damages, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, March 14, 2026.

Netherlands tightens security for Iranian dissidents after shooting of man critical of Iran

Sign on the wall of an officially shut down branch of the Muslim Brotherhood is seen on January 14, 2026 in Amman, Jordan.

Dutch House of Representatives adopts motion to ban Muslim Brotherhood in the Netherlands


Dutch museum pays thousands to compensate for looted Nazi art

The descendants of Richard Semmel's family friends were granted 200,000 euros by the Museum de Fundatie in Zwolle in the Netherlands, where the previously-owned painting currently sits.

Christ and the Samaritan Woman by  Bernardo Strozzi (1581–1644), dated to the first half of 17th century, and currently belonging to the collection of the Museum de Fundatie in Zwolle, the Netherlands.

Dutch daily apologizes for drawing Jewish pollster as a puppet master

The caricature depicted a leering Maurice de Hond holding a set of marionette strings. The editor in chief said it recall[s] too many memories of anti-Semitic caricatures of the Nazi period."

Maurice de Hond depicted as a puppet master in the Volkskrant newspaper in the Netherlands on April 19, 2021.

A riveting exploration of human doubts depicted in new book

Even though its author is a professional psychiatrist, this is far from a dry-as-dust scientific textbook.

Deference to Doubt: A young man’s quest for religious identity in first-century Judea

Israeli-Dutch Jew leads new progressive party into Dutch parliament

Israeli- Dutch Jew Itay Garmy ran the campaign for a new progressive political party, Volt, which won three seats in this week’s national election.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Dutch Parliament.

Scream, not swab: Did a Dutch inventor just discover a new COVID test?

Instead of unpleasant nasal swab tests, Peter van Wees asks participants to step into an air locked cabin and to scream, or sing.

Peter van Wees opens the door so John Moritz can exit the quick breath analyzer cabin that tests for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at a testing location in Amsterdam, Netherlands March 1, 2021.

Lockdown lifted: Israel Museum reopens featuring Dutch art exhibit

After a long string of lockdowns, the beloved cultural institution has reopened. What's on show?

THE SALT of the Earth exhibition features fascinating portrayals of the Dutch working class by leading Jewish artists  of the mid-late 19th century.

Dutch parliament: China's treatment of Uighurs is genocide

China in response denies any human rights abuses in Xinjiang and says its camps provide vocational training and are needed to fight extremism.

A Jewish man who identified himself as Andrew protests the oppression of China's Uighurs outside the Chinese Embassy in London, Jan. 5, 2020.

Dutch right-wing politician calls Nuremberg trials ‘illegitimate’

Political rivals and CIDI, Dutch Jewry’s watchdog on antisemitism, said Baudet’s remark was “shocking.”

Nazi defendants (left to right, front row) Hermann Goring, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop and Wilhelm Keitel sit in the dock of their war crimes trial at Nuremberg

‘Jew cookies,’ a Dutch dessert staple, are getting a new name

The name change comes at a time when companies the world over are assessing their product lines to ensure that they are culturally appropriate — a reckoning that is hitting the food world hard.

Renee Pater presents the design for the new label that her company, Patisserie Pater, produces in Zwaagdijk, the Netherlands.

A cultural bridge too far? Israeli expats assess life in the Netherlands

‘Sometimes I miss that Israeli directness’

AMSTERDAM CANAL: At about 2 meters below sea-level, the city is built on 11 million support poles