Dublin

Irish NGO forced to cut back

By Robyn Rosen, September 3, 2009

An influential Dublin-based NGO which opposes settlements in Israel is cutting back its West Bank activity due to a lack of donations.

Trócaire will be forced to pull out of nine countries over the next 18 months and cut back its work in 27 other countries.

The Catholic aid agency has been operating in Israel and the Palestinian occupied territories since 2002 and spent approximately €500,000 (£441,500) there in the last financial year.

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Barmitzvah girl is big news in Ballina

By Cathy Forman, July 9, 2009

mma Guihen celebrated what is believed to be the first batmitzvah on Ireland’s West Coast in the company of 130 mostly non-Jewish guests.

The batmitzvah girl lives with her mother Leah and three siblings in Ballina, a County Mayo town over 150 miles from the Dublin Jewish community. She said the ceremony was a “chance to do something connected to my Judaism”. But the family’s isolation from Jewish life meant they had to make their own preparations.

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Irish death

February 5, 2009

Irish Jewish Museum curator Raphael Siev has died after collapsing at the HMD commemoration at Mansion House, Dublin.

He had insisted on giving a reading at the ceremony before going to hospital.

After attending Gateshead Yeshivah and qualifying as a barrister, Mr Siev worked for the Irish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He devoted his latter years to the museum.

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Forty five people attend lecture at Dublin Hebrew Congregation.

October 24, 2008

Forty five people attended a lecture entitled "My Journey from Christianity to Judaism" at Dublin Hebrew Congregation.

The speaker, Chicago-born Ahuvah Gray, told the audience about her work as a Christian minister in the African American community in Chicago and Los Angeles.

She outlined how in 1996 she fulfilled her spiritual yearnings to become a Jew. Ms Gray, who now lives in Jerusalem, wrote her autobiography My Sister, the Jew in 2004.

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Irish Chief Rabbi goes

By Alex Barnes, July 4, 2008
Dublin Hebrew Congregation held a farewell kiddush to Irish Chief Rabbi Yaakov Pearlman, who is returning to America with his wife Sheila after seven years in the post. Rabbi Pearlman thanked those in and beyond the community who had assisted him during his time in office.Tributes were paid to him by Howard Gross, a former president of the congregation, and Jewish Representative Council of Ireland chairman Leonard Abrahamson.

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Second barmitzvah for Michael Coleman

May 23, 2008

The second barmitzvah of Michael Coleman took place at Dublin Hebrew Congregation. The 83-year-old was born in Dublin and is a life-long supporter of the community and Israel. The service was attended by both the Israeli Ambassador to Ireland, Zion Evrony, and the Chief Rabbi, Yakov Pearlman, who paid tribute to Mr Coleman’s work for the community. Until a few months ago, Mr Coleman served as public relations officer in the Chief Rabbi of Ireland’s office.

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Yom Hashoah marked with screening of Left Luggage

May 9, 2008

Yom Hashoah was marked in Dublin by a memorial service at the Dublin Hebrew Congregation followed by a screening of the film Left Luggage. More than 75 people listened to readings, prayers and a recitation by pupils of Dublin’s Stratford College of the names of victims of the Holocaust.

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