Every year it has been customary on these books pages to recall aspects of the accounts of the Nativity given in two of the Gospels. Each year, surprisingly enough, there always seems something new to say. This is as true this year as in all those earlier years; all 2,000 or so of them going…
Cardinal Grzegorz Rys of Lodz, chairman of the Committee for Dialogue with Judaism of the Polish bishops’ conference, strongly condemned the incident in which a far-right Polish lawmaker used a fire extinguisher to put out Hanukkah candles in the Sejm, the country’s parliament. “In connection with the incident in the Sejm committed by Mr MP…
Hidden in an unsuspecting row house on a quiet street is the Irish Jewish Museum, the only one of its kind in Dublin. It was opened on June 20, 1985, by Israeli president Chaim Herzog, who was born in Belfast.
Peter Costello
Ruadhán Jones