Question: How many people are in the Jewish Community of Antwerp?
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The history of the Jews in Antwerp, Belgium goes back at least eight hundred years.
Currently, the Jewish community of Antwerp consists of around 15,000. 
A number of Jewish schools are found throughout the Jewish district (95% of the Jewish children of Antwerp receive a religious education).
The three main Jewish schools in Antwerp are the Yesode Hatora of the Machsike Hadas, and the Yavne and Tachkemoni schools of the Shomre Hadas.
The Yesode Hatora - Beth Jacob population is composed primarily of students from Hasidic, Haredi, and Orthodox backgrounds.
It provides instruction in religious as well as secular studies: students follow a dual curriculum starting in pre-school/kindergarten, through primary school and secondary school.
Established in 1903, it is the oldest of Antwerp's Jewish schools and has the highest population of Jewish students.
Students are educated in accordance with the values of Orthodox Judaism and fulfill the educational requirements of the Belgian Ministry of Education.
The student population is separated by gender; male students attend Yesode Hatora and female students attend Beth Jacob.
In accordance with the religious ideology that puts little value on secular learning, the school actively discourages the pursuit of secular higher education.
The Yavne school is aligned with the religious Zionist movement.
Similar to Yesode Hatora/Beth Jacob, the Yavne school follows a dual curriculum composed of religious and secular studies.
Students are educated in accordance with the values of religious Zionism and fulfill the educational requirements of the Belgian Ministry of Education.
The school is not mixed; male students attend the Yeshiva Tichonit and females the Ulpena Lebanot.
An estimated 98% of Yavne students typically emigrate to Israel (commonly referred to in Jewish communities as "making aliya") within one year of graduation from secondary school.
In recent years, far-reaching improvements have been achieved in the secular curriculum.
Religious instruction also adheres to high standards and a widely developed curriculum.
The Tachkemoni is a fully co-educational school, attracting students from primarily secular Jewish backgrounds and some modern-orthodox families.
Its high level of Hebrew and serious preparation for the Jerusalem Examination (Bechina Yerushalmit) administered by the Jewish Agency and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem makes it one of the finest Jewish educational institutions in Europe.
Most graduates pursue university studies after completing secondary school and many spend a year in Israel.
Tachkemoni was founded in 1920 by Rabbi Moshe Avigdor Amiel, a moderate religious zionist.
His vision of a strong Jewish education along with a good secular education is still part of the culture of Tachkemoni.
In addition there are several kollelim, where married men can continue their studies.
The famed haredi Etz Chaim Yeshiva, where hundreds of young men from around the world study, is now located in the Wilrijk district, having previously been in the Antwerp suburban towns, first of Heide then Kapellen.
Many synagogues, schools, charities and social groups care for the environment.
A majority of Jews living in Antwerp are multilingual and communicate in a variety of languages.
Yiddish, French, Hebrew, English and German are all widely spoken among members of the community, as well as Dutch.
The Jewish community of Antwerp did not immediately adopt the locally spoken Dutch language as their common spoken language.
Instead, in line with the people they worked with in the diamond trade, they spoke French, the language of commerce in Antwerp until after World War II.
In recent years English has taken over as the common language of choice, while stricter enforcement of local language regulations ensure that all children are fluent in Dutch.
The use of language in Antwerp's Jewish community is a complex issue: while community members possess fair knowledge of different languages, there is a lack of uniformity when it comes to effective communication and discussion in a common language. 
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After the Holocaust and the destruction of its many semi-assimilated Jews, Antwerp became a major centre for Orthodox Jews.
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 Aharon Schiff (formerly by Chief Rabbi Chaim Kreiswirth) and the Portuguese Community Ben Moshe.
Antwerp has an extensive network of synagogues, shops, schools and organizations, within the Machsike Hadas community.
Significant Hasidic movements in Antwerp include Pshevorsk, based in Antwerp, as well as branches of Satmar, Belz, Bobov, Ger, Skver, Klausenburg and several others.
Rabbi Chaim Kreiswirth, chief rabbi of the Machsike Hadas community, who died in 2003, was arguably one of the better known personalities to have been based in Antwerp.
An attempt to have a street named after him has received the support of the Town Hall and is in the process of being implemented.
The Jain community in Antwerp is mostly involved in the very lucrative diamond business. 
Just before the Second World War, the Jewish community of Belgium was at its peak of roughly 70,000 Jews (with concentrations of 35,000 in Antwerp and 25,000 in Brussels).
Some 22,000 of this number were German Jewish refugees.
Only 6% of the Jewish population were of Belgian nationality.
Belgium was occupied by Nazi Germany between May 1940 and September 1944, and anti-Semitic policies were adopted throughout Belgium, even though popular resistance in some cities hindered their full application.
Belgian local police rounded up Jews, on three occasions in Antwerp, helping the German in fulfilling their murderous policy towards the Jews.
Approximately 45% of Jews in Belgium (25.484 people) were deported to concentration camps from the Dossin Barracks in Mechelen, primarily to Auschwitz.
Only 1200 of the deportees survived the war.
The Committee for Jewish Defence, which worked with the national resistance movement Front de l'Indépendance, was the largest Jewish defense movement in Belgium during the war.
Some Jews of Belgium who fled in 1940 were deported on transports from Drancy, France.
A total of 28,900 Jews of Belgium perished between 1942 and 1945.
Belgium was the only occupied country in which a transport (Train XX) was halted to give deportees a chance to escape.
The National Monument to the Jewish Martyrs of Belgium is in Brussels.
More than twenty thousand names of Jewish dead are inscribed on the walls of the Monument, Jewish victims from all around Belgium, some of whom were killed on Belgian territory, but many of whom were shipped off to the death camps in the East for their extermination.