Tag: Jewish community
History of Cork’s Jewish community to be commemorated
The Jews of Cork may have lost their synagogue last year but the story of how Leeside became home to a small, thriving Jewish community in the early half of the 20th century is...
Dominican Republic was WWII refuge for Jews
When world leaders met at the Evian Conference in France in 1938 to seek solutions for the growing numbers of Jews desperately seeking to escape the Nazis, only one country was willing to provide...
Jewish foundation distributes special passover kits in remote US areas
To help Jews in isolated communities across the US connect with the meaning of Passover, the Harold Grinspoon Foundation, dedicated to enhancing Jewish life, handed out holiday kits that included a box of Yehuda...