Diary of the Chief Rabbi of July 14, 2025, The immoral blue envelope.

The last few days I have been a full-time sjnorrer. A sjnorrer sounds exciting, but it’s just a beggar. In modern times, we no longer have sjnorrer, because begging is not proper, but in the Jewish world we are referred to as fundraisers. And because more than two hundred children have registered for the Chabad

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Benoit Wesly lashes out at Timmermans, ‘end of friendship’

Benoit Wesly from Maastricht, former chairman of the Jewish community in Limburg, has written an open letter strongly criticising his fellow citizen Frans Timmermans. ‘As long as you persist in your anti-Israeli rhetoric and thereby encourage anti-Semitism, our friendship will come to an end.’ OPEN LETTER TO MY FRIEND FRANS TIMMERMANS Dear Frans, Although I

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The Library

Here you can access the catalog of the library of the Jewish community of Maastricht. The collection and catalog are still under construction. We use the software of librarything, a network of individuals and institutions who wish to share their book holdings with like-minded book owners. Members of the Jewish Community of Maastricht and donors

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The Synagogue

Maastricht had various synagogues over the centuries. A letter from the aldermen dated 1295 mentions a platea judaeorum, now Jodenstraat, where, according to a manuscript from 1377, there must have been a synagogue, probably on the corner with the former Bokstraat, now Kesselskade. Nearby was the Jodenpoort, which gave access to the Maaskade. At the

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Diary of the chief Rabbi, June 4, 2025 I will never be silent and never bow down!

From Sunday evening until last night, Tuesday evening, 11:00 p.m., I did not read De Telegraaf or RD, did not listen to the radio, and did not touch my laptop because of Shavuot. And what happened? A cabinet crisis! Could my presence, I almost asked myself, have prevented the fall of the cabinet? And if

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