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Do you know any Jews?

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  • #32
    garysully1986
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 348 ✭✭garysully1986


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

    I know a fair few, mainly jewish people from England at university (who funnily enough OP are as English as you can get) and one girl who is from an Israeli Jewish family.

    Haha Brilliant! Now if anyone knows any elves let me know


  • #33
    garysully1986
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 348 ✭✭garysully1986


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

    I know a fair few, mainly jewish people from England at university (who funnily enough OP are as English as you can get) and one girl who is from an Israeli Jewish family.

    Haha Brilliant! Now if anyone knows any elves let me know


  • #34
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    Nope, none. As far as I know, I've never met one. Well not one with a Jewish name anyway.


  • #35
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,780 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    garysully1986 wrote: »
    I can honestly say off the top of my head that I have never actually met a Jewish person?


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


  • #36
    RiseToTheTop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 956 ✭✭✭RiseToTheTop


    I know a couple..my next door neighbour is one.


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  • #37
    RiseToTheTop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 956 ✭✭✭RiseToTheTop


    I know a couple..my next door neighbour is one.


  • #38
    Coriolanus
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    I know one family. Not exactly hasids though. It'd be like referencing the average Irish family if I were asked did I know any catholics.


  • #39
    senorwipesalot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,458 ✭✭✭senorwipesalot


    Wattle wrote: »
    There's a temple near me so I see them on saturday evenings walking to the service with their hats and beards and so on.
    Do they walk without their hats and beards during the week?


  • #40
    Wattle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,075 ✭✭✭Wattle


    garysully1986 wrote: »
    Really? Are they like full on orthodox jews like the curls and beards?

    probably not pc but dont really know much about the religion.

    Dunno if their orthodox but they are always very smartly dressed and quite a lot of them have beards. Haven't seen any with curls.


  • #41
    RuailleBuaille
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 521 ✭✭✭RuailleBuaille


    I don't know if I know any Jewish people, I've never asked that question!


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  • #42
    garysully1986
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 348 ✭✭garysully1986


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Do you ask everybody you meet if they are Jewish ? ?


    Haha I'd seem like a bit of a weirdo if I asked everyone what their religion was :p

    Nah like most people I would know to talk to are Catholic athiest/agnostic or Protestant.


  • #43
    phasers
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    I honestly don't know what religion most of the people I know are.


  • #44
    tiny_penguin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,090 ✭✭✭tiny_penguin


    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


  • #45
    benway
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,061 ✭✭✭benway


    44leto wrote: »
    religion in general doesn't come up in my conversation

    Ireland is like that. I know a few Irish Jews, but their religion has never been an issue, any more than anyone else's is. To be fair to OP, it's not a totally crazy question, the Jewish community aren't aren't very numerous, and not especially visible, for that reason. Far as I can see it, he/she seems to be genuine.

    I know a Jewish girl from the States as well, with her it seems to be much more of an identity thing - she told me within 30 seconds of meeting her that she's Jewish.


  • #46
    Javion Bitter Stabilizer
    Posts: 81,308 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Javion Bitter Stabilizer


    Used to know a good few from school, best friend is


  • #47
    Duggys Housemate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,298 ✭✭✭Duggys Housemate


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Do you ask everybody you meet if they are Jewish ? ?

    If you know people you will work religion, or ethnicity, out after a while, as in where the kids go to school, what they are doing for Hanukkah etc.

    Saying that you don't discuss religion so you don't know if you have met Jews means you probably haven't; as secular Jews tend to celebrate Hanukkah, an often Passover. I've been to a passover meal with secular jews, and secular gentiles, gentiles in the majority, but Jewish people hosting.


  • #48
    Wattle
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    senorwipesalot wrote: »
    Do they walk without their hats and beards during the week?

    How would I know? I'm not stalking them.


  • #49
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,496 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Hanukkah doesn't really seem to be much of a thing for any of the Jewish people I know. It's maybe about 5th in the list of important religious holidays.


  • #50
    tiny_penguin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,090 ✭✭✭tiny_penguin


    Duggys Housemate wrote: »
    If you know people you will work religion, or ethnicity, out after a while, as in where the kids go to school, what they are doing for Hanukkah etc.

    Saying that you don't discuss religion so you don't know if you have met Jews means you probably haven't; as secular Jews tend to celebrate Hanukkah, an often Passover. I've been to a passover meal with secular jews, and secular gentiles, gentiles in the majority, but Jewish people hosting.

    Yeh you might know if you're friends are or not - but you wouldnt know about everyone you meet. People you might not know well or see a lot, it might never come up. I would celebrate all the major jewish holidays but don't usually talk about it when its going on. So while all my close friends and the people I work with would know - there are a lot of people I have known for a while that wouldnt know and prob would only find out by chance.

    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.


  • #51
    Duggys Housemate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,298 ✭✭✭Duggys Housemate


    pickarooney wrote: »
    Hanukkah doesn't really seem to be much of a thing for any of the Jewish people I know. It's maybe about 5th in the list of important religious holidays.

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


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  • #52
    tiny_penguin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,090 ✭✭✭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.


  • #53
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,651 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


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


  • #54
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,496 Mod ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #55
    studiorat
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    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.


  • #56
    Gmol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,281 ✭✭✭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


  • #57
    Duggys Housemate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,298 ✭✭✭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 :-)


  • #58
    tiny_penguin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,090 ✭✭✭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


  • #59
    Nodin
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    studiorat wrote: »
    ....

    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.


  • #60
    Abi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭Abi


    Captain Darling wrote: »
    Yes.
    Ah FFS. Who let them in?!

    The ducks in Stephens green will be next.


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  • #61
    Duggys Housemate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,298 ✭✭✭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)


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