In the first chapter of his book, Jelly-Schapiro relates the story of Henry Hudson’s 1609 voyage up the river that would later come to bear his name. One of the seamen aboard wrote in his journal that ...

In the first chapter of his book, Jelly-Schapiro relates the story of Henry Hudson‘s 1609 voyage up the river that would later come to bear his name. One of the seamen aboard the ship wrote in his ...

A train pulls into the DeRidder depot in this 1969 photo. DeRidder was one of the stops along the Kansas City Southern Railway, financed by Jen de Geoijen, who named the town for his sister-in-law. To ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) — Did you know the Dutch heavily influenced the five boroughs and their neighborhoods? Hundreds of years ago, the Dutch landed on what they called New Amsterdam, purchasing the island ...

(JTA) As he lists the names of his many grandchildren, Joop van Ooijen recites what sounds like a roll call at a typical Israeli classroom. Yair, Yael, Lael, Odelia, Netanya, Yoaz and Shilon are some ...

AMSTERDAM (JTA) — In Dutch supermarkets, no cookie aisle is fully stocked without a national treat called jodenkoeken, shortbread discs whose Dutch name means “Jew cookies.” Exactly how jodenkoeken ...

The names of nearly half a million people suspected of collaborating with the Nazis during their occupation of the Netherlands have been published online for the first time, 80 years after the end of ...

AMSTERDAM (JTA) — As he lists the names of his many grandchildren, Joop van Ooijen recites what sounds like a roll call at a typical Israeli classroom. Yair, Yael, Lael, Odelia, Netanya, Yoaz and ...