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A heroic Vatican priest who saved Jews from the Nazis -- New book tells amazing story of Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty - VIDEO (IrishCentral)

Wed, 30 May 2012 04:15:08 PDT

Monsignor Hugh O’FlahertyMonsignor Hugh O’Flaherty may be one of the greatest Irish men who ever lived, yet his story is hardly knownGrowing up in Ireland I never heard his tale, but I suspect I know why He was the heroic Monsignor, based in the Vatican, who saved thousands of Allied soldiers from the Nazis and also saved hundreds of Jews from the death campsPerhaps because he was helping the British in the war effort his story drew a veil of silence in Ireland but it should not have READ MORE

Mel Gibson has been accused of "hating Jews" by the writer of "Basic Instinct" (IrishCentral)

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 06:30:11 PDT

Mel GibsonJoe Eszter has launched a scathing attack on Mel claiming he sabotaged a movie they had planned together, 'The Maccabees' - which tells the story of Judah Maccabee, a Jew who led a revolt against the Seleucid Empire - because he is anti-SemiticIn part of a nine page letter, he wrote: "I've come to the conclusion that you never had, or have, any intention of making a film about the Maccabees"I believe you announced the project with great fanfare - 'a Jewish Braveheart' - in an attempt to deflect continuing charges of anti-Semitism which have dogged you"I've come to the conclusion that the reason you won't make 'The Maccabees' is the ugliest possible one READ MORE

Senior ranked Catholic Cardinal George Pell says Jews 'intellectually and morally inferior' (IrishCentral)

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 05:37:19 PDT

By: KERRY O’SHEA

Australia’s most senior-ranked Cardinal George Pell has apologized for his controversial and offensive statements about Jews. During a televised debate with Richard Dawkins, Cardinal Pell asserted that Jews “weren’t intellectually the equal” of other cultures in times past.

Irish Jews upset as their religion omitted from Irish census (IrishCentral)

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 05:00:38 PDT

By: CATHY HAYES

Glenn Beck revealed as clearly anti Semitic -- names eight Jews out of nine on his most dangerous list (IrishCentral)

Fri, 14 Jan 2011 07:10:03 PST

Glenn Beck has always insisted he is not anti-Semitic, giving the usual spin that ' some of my best friends are Jewish'But his actions speak louder than his wordsOn his show on Thursday night he revealed who he considered the nine most dangerous people wereEight of them were JewsAnd here is the list of 8 Jews he singled out:· Propagandist and ad man Edward Bernays, who revolutionized 20th century public relations READ MORE

Rick Sanchez points a dirty finger at Jon Stewart aka "The Bigot" (IrishCentral)

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 06:55:14 PDT

I honestly thought Rick Sanchez was white I would never have guessed he was an oppressed "minority"But that's what the former CNN host has claimed in his bid to represent "everyday Americans" against anyone with any advantage he did not have The butt of many Daily Show lampoons for being a goofy journalist--Mr READ MORE

Irish Facebook page claims 'invasion' of Jews in Cork (IrishCentral)

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 04:55:17 PDT

By: TOM FITZGERALD

A Facebook page entitled "the invasion of jews in midleton" (a town in County Cork) has come under criticism for its anti-Semitic content.

James Joyce brings the Irish and the Jews together (IrishCentral)

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:10:28 PDT

Bloomsday got my summer mapped out I perambulated New York, as though it were Dublin, reading bits of Ulysses aloud in Manhattan like Walt Whitman spouting poetry through Brooklyn, compacting the universe into one good day, like yesterday Leopold Bloom walks through Dublin seeing-through grand mythologies and exalting contemporary details mythologically He stops in church and admires the spiel and razzle dazzle techniques of the priest, comfortably subsuming Catholic enormity into the integrity of his own honestly un-awed interpretation READ MORE

Choosing sides between Irish and British, Jews and Palestinians (IrishCentral)

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 03:10:26 PDT

The Israeli and the Irish governments are wrestling on the international stage, and it's not good for the Irish The media drama between the nations was set on the high seas when the Irish arm of the Free Gaza Movement stocked a harmless cargo boat with food supplies and famous Irish Civil Rights activists, including Nobel Peace prize laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire and set sail The purpose was to bring relief and attention to a civilian population enduring collective punishment in order that they "be persuaded" to "change their minds" as New York Senator Chuck Schumer recently put it so chillingly The supply ship was named MV Rachel Corrie and carried a consignment of aid with 19 crew, among them five Irish nationals, and the Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen's blessing READ MORE

Yankees pull plug on Ronan Tynan after tenor's bad joke about Jews (IrishCentral)

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 05:14:34 PDT

By: ANTOINETTE KELLY

Irish comic Tommy Tiernan in furor over 'kill Jews' remark at festival (IrishCentral)

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 10:07:09 PDT

By: ANTOINETTE KELLY

Irish comic Tommy Tiernan is facing a worldwide storm of protest after an anti-Semitic tirade in which he joked he would have "got" 10 or 12 million Jews during the Holocaust.

White Ethnic New York Jews Catholics and the Shaping of Postwar Politics (IrishCentral)

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 10:07:56 PDT

By: TOM DEIGNAN

In a sense, Thomas Mallon's fictional portrait of Tim Laughlin in "Fellow Travelers" supports the real-life themes of a new book by Joshua Zeitz called "White Ethnic New York: Jews, Catholics, and the Shaping of Postwar Politics." Exploring the Irish as well as other ethnic enclaves, Zeitz argues that Irish Americans and other Catholics remained deeply unmelted even after Word War II, when many people believed they'd simply faded into the vast American middle class and became like everyone else. "Between the 1940s and the late 1960s, New York's three largest white ethnic groups, Jews, Italian Catholics, and Irish Catholics, numbered as many as 4.3 million people, roughly two thirds of New York's white population and more than half of its total population," Zeitz recently wrote in American Heritage, describing his book. "In New York, for instance, in any given year upwards of two thirds of all Catholic children from kindergarten through eighth grade were enrolled in parish schools. At home and in parish schools, generations of Catholic New Yorkers internalized a respect for public and religious authority and a general skepticism of radical dissent, attitudes that were at once the product of their religious subculture and a reflection of their predominantly homogeneous working-class environment." ($24.95 / 296 pages / North Carolina)

Gibson Award Angers Irish Jews (IrishCentral)

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 10:00:47 PDT

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MEL Gibson, beware of The Passion of the Irish Jewish Community. The star, who launched a notorious drunken tirade against Jews while being hauled off to the slam for drunk driving a couple of summers ago in LA, is due in Dublin this weekend to accept the Outstanding Contribution to World Cinema Award at the Irish Film and Television Awards, but a rabbi in Ireland is furious that Mad Mel should be placed on such a pedestal. "We find it very puzzling. READ MORE