The annual conclave of the United Hebrew Congregations of Ireland meeting here voted to empower the Jewish Representative Council of Eire to appoint a Chief Rabbi for the Irish Free State.
Eire, which has about 5,000 Jews, has not had a Chief Rabbi since 1937 when Rabbi Isaac Herzog left to assume the post of Chief Rabbi of Palestine. Since that time Chief Rabbi Joseph Hertz of Great Britain has also acted as Chief Rabbi of Ireland. The Chief Rabbinate of Ireland was first created in 1925.
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