Nederlands Israëlitisch Kerkgenootschap

In total, the NIK has some 20[citation needed] rabbis actively working in 18 congregations throughout the country, serving some 5,000 Jews.

The NIK and its member-congregations maintained the traditional view on Judaism as it had been ever since and kept on going along this line, till today.

The newly found umbrella organisation had a clear hierarchical design: the Jewish communities were governed on a local level by twelve so-called large "hoofdsynagogen" (lit.

The following decades saw a steady decline, administrating 139 communities on the eve of World War II.

The NIK follows the rules of Orthodox Judaism, meaning among other things a separation between men and women during religious services and only accepting members who are halakhically Jewish.

Along with the larger Jewish communities, the NIK is responsible for supervising whether the rules for kashrut are followed, as well as the mikvaot (ritual baths), the upkeep of some two-hundred Jewish cemeteries in the Netherlands (on a national total of two-hundred-and-fifty) and (Orthodox) conversions to Judaism by non-Jews.

Four times a year the NIK publishes Hakehillot, a magazine for the Jews in the Netherlands, whilst it maintains a weekly updated news site and e-letter too.