The granddaughter of former Israeli president Chaim Herzog and the Minister for Justice, Jim O’Callaghan, were among those who gathered at Dublin’s Herzog Park on Monday evening to celebrate the second night of the Jewish festival of Hanukkah, and to commemorate the victims of Sunday’s attack in Sydney. And I suppose it indicates the importance that the Irish Government attaches to this park, and I want to see it continue to be named Herzog Park.” Maurice Cohen, chair of the Jewish Representative Council of Ireland, told those assembled that Hanukkah is “a story of refusal – a refusal to surrender identity, a refusal to accept that power alone decides truth [and] a refusal to erase memory because it is inappropriate to others”.
Author: Cian O'Connell
Published at: 2025-12-15 21:27:34
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