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\nMinister Jim O’Callaghan met with members of the Jewish community at event<\/p>\n
Members of the Irish Jewish community have attended an event in Herzog Park in Dublin to mark the second day of Hanukkah.<\/p>\n
Organised prior to the shootings in Bondi, the event was attended by the granddaughter of Chaim Herzog, after whom the park is named.<\/p>\n
Minister for Justice Jim O’Callaghan attended on behalf of the Government.<\/p>\n
Chief Rabbi of Ireland Yoni Wieder said people were apprehensive about attending this evening’s event.<\/p>\n
Speaking on RT\u00c9’s Six One News, he said if people cannot attend a celebration and commemorate festivals without “worrying for our lives” then the world is a “darker and dangerous place for all of us”.<\/p>\n
Rabbi Wieder said that he told his community they needed to make an extra effort to come out and be seen.<\/p>\n
He said the Irish Jewish community are “proud and we are not going to cower”.<\/p>\n
\nMinister Jim O’Callaghan met with members of the Jewish community at event<\/p>\n
“The terrorist that carried out this attack yesterday they want Jews in Sydney and around the world to live in fear, and our response is absolutely clear – we are here, we are going to continue to thrive,” he said.<\/p>\n
Rabbi Wieder said Hanukkah was about “lighting the light and sharing that light with the people around us”, which is what they continued to do.<\/p>\n
Jewish people need to be seen – Chief Rabbi of Ireland<\/p>\n
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He described the attack in Bondi as “absolutely sickening”, adding it was a “barbaric, heinous act of terrorism” against the Jewish community as well as an “attack against our very values that underpin us as a civilised moral society”.<\/p>\n
Rabbi Wieder said he had spoken with the Garda Commissioner yesterday, and the priorities were very clear.<\/p>\n
“It is not just about security at an event itself, it is about intelligence, making sure that any threats are known about in advance so that they can be thwarted,” he said.<\/p>\n
“It is about prosecuting people who have insighted violence who have made threats against the Jewish community or any other minority community.”<\/p>\n
Rabbi Wieder added it was not just about policing but looking at the “root problem”.<\/p>\n
“There is unfortunately a hatred against Jewish people that is spreading across parts of Western society and, unfortunately, parts of Irish society as well,” he said.<\/p>\n
He said the questions must be asked why is that happening, and who are the people who might single out a Jewish event or person for an attack, and what are we doing to ensure there is no space for that type of hatred in our society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Members of the Irish Jewish community have attended an event in Herzog Park in Dublin to mark the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-194094","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}