Re: the lack of Jewish understanding - I can tell you that it's been great for me and my wife as a learning experience. We live in Ireland, which as of 2018, had a 0.05% Jewish population and there are only 5 synagogues in the whole country. The only Jewish folks I've ever properly met were work colleagues when the company I worked at ha…
Re: the lack of Jewish understanding - I can tell you that it's been great for me and my wife as a learning experience. We live in Ireland, which as of 2018, had a 0.05% Jewish population and there are only 5 synagogues in the whole country. The only Jewish folks I've ever properly met were work colleagues when the company I worked at had US offices. Not exactly the right environment to ask questions.
Only Catholicism is taught in most schools (if any religion is at all).
So, basically, as a nation, we're largely ignorant of Judaism and Jewish culture in general. Hopefully, through the show, more people over here will learn more about our Jewish neighbours, brothers and sisters, at least.
Re: the lack of Jewish understanding - I can tell you that it's been great for me and my wife as a learning experience. We live in Ireland, which as of 2018, had a 0.05% Jewish population and there are only 5 synagogues in the whole country. The only Jewish folks I've ever properly met were work colleagues when the company I worked at had US offices. Not exactly the right environment to ask questions.
Only Catholicism is taught in most schools (if any religion is at all).
So, basically, as a nation, we're largely ignorant of Judaism and Jewish culture in general. Hopefully, through the show, more people over here will learn more about our Jewish neighbours, brothers and sisters, at least.