Preceding the European elections ORF Europe correspondent Ernst Kenmayer visits the Netherlands to report about and talk to politicians of the parties leading in the Dutch polls. Kenmayer attends the campaign visit of the PVV party leader Geert Wilders on a market in Spijkenisse and… Read More

The German first public TV program ARD Weltspiegel re-broadcasts a more extensive reportage about Jewish people in Antwerp using genetic tests to fight the chance of diseases that are widespread in the Jewish community. Since orthodox Jews only marry and reproduce in their own community,… Read More

Only the father of Dutch documentary maker Frans Bromet was Jewish, but he felt a feeling of home coming when he was filming in Israel in 1990. He decided to make a one hour documentary about Jewish people that returned or will return to Israel…. Read More

Christmas is boom-time for manufacturers and retailers as consumers engage in an annual shopping frenzy that sends profits soaring and can give a much-needed boost to ailing economies. But it’s not just the makers and sellers of the perfumes, handbags and watches we buy who… Read More

Since orthodox Jews only marry and reproduce in their own community, genetic diseases like Tay-Sachs occur relatively often. In the 1980ties Rabbi Joseph Ekstein, based in Brooklyn New York, started an organisation with the name Dor Yeshorim (‘upright generation’), to fight genetic diseases to appear… Read More

‘We make war so we are war’. That, some would say chilling quotation, came from Abdelkarim Honing, a young man in the Netherlands who has converted to Islam. He has seen many of his friends leave to take up arms in the bloody conflict in… Read More

The Yong Sheng is the first ever container-transporting vessel sailing transit along the Northern Sea Route. When arriving in the port of Rotterdam the 19,000-ton vessel Yong Sheng will get its place in the history books as the first container-transporting vessel which made it transit… Read More

After years of negotiation a new European rule to ban discarding unwanted fish overboard was agreed upon in May this year. Dutch fisherman and fish dealer Jan Geertsema wants to change the system by promoting fishing in a much more durable way, decreasing the number… Read More

Since the seventies of the last century the fans of the Amsterdam football club Ajax identify themselves with Jews. Although officially Ajax is not a Jewish club, many of the supporters sing and yell ‘Jews, Jews, Jews’ during every match. A Dutch foundation against anti-Semitism… Read More

Jack to a King: The Swansea Story is a 2014 British documentary film (directed by Marc Evans) about the Swansea City Football Club’s history from July 2001 to May 2011. It focuses on the club’s rise from almost going out of business at the bottom… Read More

In May 2013 the European Parliament adopted the European Protection Order and protection certificate. New EU-wide protection measures for victims of stalking, violence, intimidation, soon to be valid in all Member States. In early June 2013 the European Justice Ministers will enforce the new measures…. Read More

On April 30, 2013 the whole world can follow the abdication of Queen Beatrix and the investiture of King Willem Alexander and his wife Queen Maxima. The city of Amsterdam is full of people dressed in orange because on the 30iest of April the Dutch… Read More