Do you know any Jews?

tiny_penguin

Duggys Housemate wrote: »

Possibly, my experiences are all in America, where it is pretty big. Passover is the biggest one, the Seder meal.

Id say the biggest one would be Yom Kippur - most talked about, anyone observing would have to miss a day of school/work for it and therefore would be explained why, and considered the most important holiday in the jewish calendar.

El Weirdo

I also know a couple of Spurs fans, if that counts.

pickarooney

Duggys Housemate wrote: »

Possibly, my experiences are all in America, where it is pretty big. Passover is the biggest one, the Seder meal.

I get the feeling in America it's bigged up a little as a sort of competitor to Christmas or by people who don't want to risk offending Jewish people (even though it's not always on around Christmas) in December.

studiorat

senorwipesalot wrote: »

Do they walk without their hats and beards during the week?

The one's I know only have the beards at weekends.

tiny_penguin wrote: »

Also as stated there is only one jewish school in the whole country, and most of the jewish people I know didnt/dont go there.

Yeah, most Jews don't need to go to a jewish school because they are already Jews.

Gmol

I used to deal with a Jewish person in my previous job who was a client and that was the first Jewish person i had contact with, she was horrible & condescending but I don't think it was because of her religion she was just a nasty person.
It was a pity that the first time dealing with a person of that creed was remembered because a person was horrible

Duggys Housemate

tiny_penguin wrote: »

Id say the biggest one would be Yom Kippur - most talked about, anyone observing would have to miss a day of school/work for it and therefore would be explained why, and considered the most important holiday in the jewish calendar.

I cede to your superior knowledge but..


Is there a meal :-)

tiny_penguin

Duggys Housemate wrote: »

I cede to your superior knowledge but..


Is there a meal :-)

There is - a super meal cos we fast for 25 hours preceding it. The passover Seder is prob the more important meal, but Yom Kippur is more important holiday. Might not be the same for all jews, but for Passover dont really have to explain myself to people or mention it at all. I just avoid bread and stuff and nobody notices. But for Yom Kippur it seems to always come up in conversation why I'm taking the day off etc

Nodin

studiorat wrote: »

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Yeah, most Jews don't need to go to a jewish school because they are already Jews.

......there used be a two week refersher course in FAS out in Ballyer though.

Abi

Captain Darling wrote: »

Yes.

Ah FFS. Who let them in?!

The ducks in Stephens green will be next.

Duggys Housemate

tiny_penguin wrote: »

There is - a super meal cos we fast for 25 hours preceding it. The passover Seder is prob the more important meal, but Yom Kippur is more important holiday. Might not be the same for all jews, but for Passover dont really have to explain myself to people or mention it at all. I just avoid bread and stuff and nobody notices. But for Yom Kippur it seems to always come up in conversation why I'm taking the day off etc

Ah, I see, thats why I probably didn't know. I got invited to a Passover meal, the meal is important to me, as my friends knew.

( as I said they were secular, so the meal wasn't very religious except for the food - no praying - and candles)

garysully1986

tiny_penguin wrote: »

Deleted User wrote: »

Do you ask everybody you meet if they are Jewish ? ?

This is the thing. I dont tell most people I meet that I am - only comes up if i know them a while and/or the conversation goes to religion or sometime politics (discussing israel/palestine) or I make some silly comment that sounds very anti semetic when I forget the people I'm talking to dont know I am actually jewish. I'd say this is the same for most, its not my opening introduction. Also don't know what religion an awful lot of my acquaintances are and most people in ireland just make the assumption everyone is either christian or atheist

Yeah u could be right i may actually be assuming everyone i know is catholic Haha

garysully1986

tiny_penguin wrote: »

Deleted User wrote: »

Do you ask everybody you meet if they are Jewish ? ?

This is the thing. I dont tell most people I meet that I am - only comes up if i know them a while and/or the conversation goes to religion or sometime politics (discussing israel/palestine) or I make some silly comment that sounds very anti semetic when I forget the people I'm talking to dont know I am actually jewish. I'd say this is the same for most, its not my opening introduction. Also don't know what religion an awful lot of my acquaintances are and most people in ireland just make the assumption everyone is either christian or atheist

Yeah u could be right i may actually be assuming everyone i know is catholic Haha

D-Generate

I was friends with the rarest breeds of all, a black Jew named Geordie, when I was in the US.

Knew a few more when I was living in London but have never met one in Ireland even though I lived in Cork which historically has had a strong Jewish population and and previously had a Jewish mayor.

Jimoslimos

Stayed in Bondi (yeah yeah, I know) for a while when I was in Australia and the place was full of Jews - synagogue just around the corner.

They were very very orthodox; hats, beards, skullcaps, women with shaved heads covered with wigs, no work on the Sabbath, etc.

Morag

Yes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Ireland

The history of the Jews in Ireland extends back nearly a thousand years. Although the Jewish community has always been small in numbers (1,930 in the Republic of Ireland according to the 2006 census), it is well established and has generally been well-accepted into Irish life.

Stinicker

I know just one Jewish guy and he's an American, Jews are commonly stereotyped as being mean and stingy, this guy is one of the most decent and sound people I know so that goes out the window as far as he is concerned anyway.

meganj

Went to a Jewish secondary school so feel like I know every Jewish person in Ireland at this stage.

Lovely bunch of people.

garysully1986

Good to know there are a few irish jews knocking about.

As i said was a genuine question, Good to get a bit more knowledge

As they say everydays a schoolday!

mattjack

I have an Israeli freind,who doesn't practice and Mrs MJ is of Jewish descent.

meganj

meganj wrote: »

Went to a Jewish secondary school so feel like I know every Jewish person in Ireland at this stage.

Lovely bunch of people.

did you go to stratford too? :pac:

amacachi

I know I've met one. Found out in the usual way I find out such things about people, after making an inappropriate joke about it.

token101

There's a Jewish Quarter in Cork

meganj

bluewolf wrote: »

did you go to stratford too? :pac:

Heck yes I did. Navy blue uniforms all the way.

Small world (small school in fairness).

meganj

meganj wrote: »

Heck yes I did. Navy blue uniforms all the way.

Small world (small school in fairness).

and you ended up in nuim after?
very small world

Snowie

token101 wrote: »

There's a Jewish Quarter in Cork

tell me more is there gold ?

Diabhal Beag

meganj wrote: »

Went to a Jewish secondary school so feel like I know every Jewish person in Ireland at this stage.

Lovely bunch of people.

Was it St. Jew's by any chance?

Sky King

Shared a flat with a jewish guy. He was great craic. He was the first person I have ever heard to use the word Jew as a verb. ("Who Jewed the last of my milk?" etc etc).

garysully1986

bluewolf wrote: »

and you ended up in nuim after?
very small world

Garysully1986 - Bringing boardsies together! :D:D

Zebra3

SteppingStone wrote: »

I know a few Jews.. Not the religious types.

A jew is someone who practises judaism.

So if they are not religious how could they be jewish?

EdenHazard

My grandparents were jewish immigrants

Lone Stone

I never saw any in my life untill one day i was out in the woods and took out my gold coin and as i raised it to the sun and it lit up as the suns rays stuck it a jew popped out from behind a tree and snatched it !


Ah no but seriously i havent spoken to any but i remember a family of them near one of my friends house they kept to themselves seemed fairly religious though. And my muslim mate seems to have some inate grudge towards them some thing about an anti christ.

Kintarō Hattori

Just one that I know of through work and he's an absolute gent.

I don't care too much for religion so tend not to discuss the topic with folk.

amacachi

Sky King wrote: »

He was the first person I have ever heard to use the word Jew as a verb.

You'll love this new invention called "television".

Teyla Emmagan

No. Know OF a few families around who are Jewish, but don't personally know anyone who is a Jew. That I'm aware of anyway.

Awful pity there aren't more of them in Ireland I think. They seem like a very interesting lot.

Sky King

amacachi wrote: »

You'll love this new invention called "television".

I have the internet dude, join the 90's ffs.

RichieC

A few on the internets not a single one in the real world.

My name is URL

They should all be made to carry passports which play Hava Nagila when opened

amacachi

Sky King wrote: »

I have the internet dude, join the 90's ffs.

When was it you first heard "Jew" used as a verb?

Sky King

Fuck off.

Mod: Banned.

amacachi

I wish you were Jewish, I hear they're a witty people.

Captain_Generic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb3IMTJjzfo

Sky King

amacachi wrote: »

I wish you were Jewish, I hear they're a witty people.

I wish you were Jewish circa 1939

Yitzhak Rabin

Sky King wrote: »

amacachi wrote: »

I wish you were Jewish, I hear they're a witty people.

I wish you were Jewish circa 1939

You're not funny.

I know one in Kerry, though he's originally from Manchester.

stovelid

I know one - albeit non practicing - Jew.

Dudess

Yeah a girl I'm friendly with (not close friends but close friends with another friend) is Israeli-Irish. Girl I went to college with - her father is Jewish but it didn't get passed down to her as it is matrilineal.

bwatson wrote: »

What a strange thread OP - like the Jewish community are a mythical, mysterious group.

But you've said yourself there are very low numbers of people from ethnic minorities in Ireland - and the Jewish population is particularly sparse here.
I reckon too if someone is a practising Jew you'd know it.

wandatowell

Unavailable for Comment wrote: »

the population in Ireland as a whole is shrinking as they often emigrate to England or Israel.

Very interesting.


Do you know why???

saa

I know a few American Jews you wouldn't know they were Jewish unless it came up in conversation, wow that sounded weird.
So yeah OP I do... yeah.

delta_bravo

wandatowell wrote: »

Very interesting.


Do you know why???

Well Israel for obvious reasons as it's the homeland and all that. Many go to England as they generally marry within their own community so I suppose they have more Jews to go out with in England. In the past the major Jewish areas of Dublin were Terenure and around Portobello.

Gyalist

meganj wrote: »

Heck yes I did. Navy blue uniforms all the way.

Small world (small school in fairness).

Hmmm...
My daughter went to school there for a while.

I'm friends with lots of Jewish people. I used to play cricket with them at the old Carlisle Cricket Club in Kimmage before it was sold.