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Eye on Eire: A Cold Bloomsday For Dublin Jews

June 16 is Bloomsday — the date Leopold Bloom spends “wandering Dublin” in that “portrait of modern alienation,” James Joyce’s “Ulysses,” notes Phelim McAleer at The Wall Street Journal.

Bloom “is an Irish Jew” who “endures not only the private pain of his wife’s unfaithfulness but the casual, corrosive antisemitism of his fellow citizens.”

Yet “Ireland hasn’t progressed since Joyce wrote ‘Ulysses’ — it has regressed,” as antisemitism “has intensified.”

The country’s become “a cold house for Jews” in the wake of the “Hamas massacre of Oct. 7, 2023.”

A century ago, “Leopold Bloom was insulted and threatened, but Jews could at least still freely wander the streets of Dublin.”

Today, “he would be advised not to try.”

Schools beat: A Crazy Way To ‘Ensure Safety’

A House bill mandates 70% of some $243.6 million in federal “school safety” funding get spent on mental-health programs, laments City Journal’s Carolyn D. Gorman, yet “no evidence” suggests schools “can treat mental-health conditions” well or bolster safety.

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