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Author: Henri Markens

From 1986 to 2006, Henri Markens was principal of the Joods Lyceum Maimonides (Jewish Maimonides High School) in Amsterdam. Since then he serves as director-general of the Organization for Jewish Education. He has also been chairman of the Organization of Jewish Communities in the Netherlands from 1994-2002. He was chairman of the CJO, the umbrella organization of Dutch Jewry, from 2000 to 2002.

Insights into the Situation of the Jews in the Netherlands

November 15, 2009 |Henri Markens

Demographic research by the Jewish social organization JMW shows that three-quarters of the Dutch Jewish community, which numbers about 30,000, is not organized in one of the three religious organizations-the Ashkenazi, Progressive, and Portuguese. Among other things, this means they do not send their children to a Jewish school and, if they are ill, do not go to the Jewish hospital. Close to half of the Jews live in Amsterdam and the adjacent southern suburb of Amstelveen.