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5 days ago · Here you find the city’s diamond dealers, along with kosher restaurants, specialised bookstores and bakeries selling delicious cheesecake. The Jewish community in Antwerp goes back to the Middle Ages, when Jews were driven out of England, Spain and Portugal. They often worked in the diamond industry as other professions refused to admit them.
Jun 8, 2024 · The prevalent religion in Antwerp is Roman Catholicism. There are also small groups of various Protestant churches and a sizable Jewish group of different tendencies. (By the 19th century Antwerp already had a great number of Jewish residents, but many Jews died in World War II German concentration camps .)
2 days ago · At present, about 15,000 Haredi Jews, many of them Hasidic, live in Antwerp. The city has three official Jewish Congregations: Shomrei Hadass, headed by Rabbi Dovid Moishe Lieberman, Machsike Hadass, headed by Rabbi Aron Schiff (formerly by Chief Rabbi Chaim Kreiswirth) and the Portuguese Community Ben Moshe. Antwerp has an extensive network of ...
Jun 8, 2024 · Immediately after liberation in 1944, Antwerp’s nearly unharmed port was instrumental in the supply of the Allied armies aiming their final blow against Nazi Germany, although bombardment by German missiles devastated the city.
3 days ago · This table lists the 336 incorporated places in the United States, excluding the U.S. territories, with a population of at least 100,000 as of July 1, 2023, as estimated by the U.S. Census Bureau. Five states have no cities with populations exceeding 100,000.
Jun 23, 2024 · Antwerp produced only a small portion of the jihadists from the same immigrant communities and the reason, the cop said, was the rise in cocaine arriving in the ports of Rotterdam and, particularly, Antwerp.
1 day ago · There have been Jewish communities in the United States since colonial times, with individuals living in various cities before the American Revolution. Early Jewish communities were primarily composed of Sephardi immigrants from Brazil, Amsterdam, or England.
