Why would an observant Jew
whose ancestors hail from Aleppo, Syria be looking forward to again wearing
green on St. Patrick's Day?
In the 1840's when the great
Irish potato famine was decimating the Emerald Isle, a million or more were
killed and a population of desperate refugees was created, many of whom
thankfully found their way to the United States. It was a humanitarian crisis of
gargantuan proportions and that Jews were among those in the relief movement
created a stir, at least here in New York.
