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Sunday, March 05, 2006

Dublin opens a Jewish house

The Dublin Jewish community opened a house with kosher facilities for students and young professionals.

Located in a former Jewish retirement home near the core of Dublin’s Jewish population on the city’s south side, the house is open to any Jews living in, working in or visiting Dublin.

In addition to providing living space for observant Jews in a city with limited kosher facilities, the house is intended as a place for social contact between the Irish Jewish community and the growing number of Jews who have moved to Ireland for work or study, according to Rabbi Zalman Lent, Dublin’s Chabad rabbi, who spearheaded the project with his wife, Rifky.

The house’s eight residents celebrated their first Shabbat there last week.

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