The German authorities allowed the Jewish Council to publish a weekly paper. However, this paper had to publish the measures taken by the occupation authority, if these concerned Jews. Local departments
throughout the Netherlands were under authority of the Jewish Council in Amsterdam. The Jewish Council actually served as a link between the Jews and the Dutch and German authorities.
Not only was the council forced to announce the anti-Jewish measures, but it also had to enforce some of them. After the summer vacation of 1941, Jewish students were no longer allowed to attend non-Jewish public
and special schools. Organising the education for Jewish children, who all had to go to separate Jewish schools, was the responsibility of the Jewish Council. In March 1942, the Jewish Council, by order of the German authorities, helped draw inventories
of employed Jews, but who nevertheless had to go work in Dutch labour camps.