Maurice Cohen
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‘It will be hard for people . . . they’ll miss it’: Dublin’s religious once again close their doors
- Social Affairs
- September 18, 2020, 21:43
Dublin’s religious are closing their doors this weekend, reluctantly but accepting “it has to be done”. In messages to their clergy on Friday the Cat(...)

Jewish council to write to TDs on how to spot anti-Semitism
- Religion & Beliefs
- February 24, 2020, 03:01
The Jewish Representative Council of Ireland plans to write to every member of the new Dáil and Seanad to highlight the risk of anti-Semitism in publi(...)

Auschwitz commemoration ‘a truly remarkable achievement’
- Religion & Beliefs
- January 26, 2020, 17:22
Last week’s commemoration at the Yad Vashem memorial in Jerusalem of the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz 75 years ago was “ a trul(...)

Invitation to Mass a ‘silly mistake’, says National Maternity Hospital
- Social Affairs
- December 23, 2018, 11:04
The National Maternity Hospital has issued invitations to a Catholic Mass to mark the inauguration of its new Master, Prof Shane Higgins, on January 1(...)

Census figures for Ireland’s Jewish population in 2016 not what they seem
- Religion & Beliefs
- November 14, 2017, 13:59
Census figures that showed Ireland was experiencing the fastest growing Jewish population in the world were not what they seem, according to Maurice C(...)

‘Sunday Times’ conducts inquiry into Kevin Myers column
- Irish News
- August 2, 2017, 05:00
A review by the Sunday Times in London as to how the controversial column by journalist Kevin Myers came to be published is expected to be completed l(...)

History of Cork’s Jewish community to be commemorated
- Irish News
- May 14, 2017, 13:16
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 h(...)

Ceremony in Cork’s Shalom Park for Jewish Festival of Lights
- Irish News
- January 1, 2017, 20:00
They began gathering at Shalom Park in the heart of Cork’s old Jewish quarter on New Year’s Eve long before the last gleam of light receded. It was (...)

Fred Rosehill, leading figure in Cork Jewish community, dies at 88
- Irish News
- November 30, 2016, 11:34
The death of leading member of the Jewish community in Cork, Fred Rosehill, marked the closing of a chapter in the city’s history, according to the Ch(...)

Johnny Ronan apologises for using ‘Arbeit Macht Frei’
- Social Affairs
- September 27, 2015, 07:50
Property developer Johnny Ronan has apologised for including a reference to second World War concentration camps in his written statement to the Oirea(...)