Nearly 1,500 proud Zionists, philanthropists and people who love Israel attended Jewish National Fund-USA’s (JNF-USA) National Conference in Boston last
Luck of the Irish: Iraqi Sweet & Sour Salona
When Vivian met Nik she was charmed by his Irish accent and was amazed to find out that there were Irish Jews.
Jewish history in Ireland began over a thousand years ago, when five Jews brought a gift to Toirdelbach, the king of Munster, but they were soon sent back to where they came from. By 1232, there was a small community of Jews living in Dublin, with King Henry III granting the Treasurer and Chancellor of the Irish Exchequer “custody of the King’s Judaism in Ireland.” Following the expulsion from Portugal in 1497, a number of Sephardic Jews settled on the south coast of the Emerald Isle. Ireland’s first synagogue was built in 1660, near Dublin Castle. During the Great Famine, many Jews donated generously to famine relief and according to a Dublin newspaper, Baron Lionel de Rothschild and his family donated a sum far greater than the joint contributions of the Irish landowning aristocracy, which included the Devonshires, the