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Reggae star's roots schmoots

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Here’s a thought for Pesach. Reggae maestro Bob Marley(right), whose album Exodus is one of the all-time greats, may have had Jewish roots.

Online Jewish magazine the Tablet has suggested that his paternal grandmother was a Syrian Jewish Jamaican called Ellen Broomfield.

Is there no one who is not an honorary Israelite now? All the world’s a shteibl, as Shakespeare nearly said.

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