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Catholics toast their 'Jewish Pub'

June 10, 2011 13:08
Isabella Kozlowski

By

Nissan Tzur

1 min read

Kamil and Izabella Kozlowski are a devoted Polish Catholic couple, but should you drop in to their restaurant in Lublin, you will feel as if you entered a warm Jewish home.

Hummus, cholent, gefilte fish, matzo-bray and even falafel await you, and should you turn up during Rosh Hashanah or Pesach, you will be sat down for a yomtov meal.

Guests are greeted with a warm "Shalom" in Hebrew and told - with a smile - why you will not be served meat and dairy together.

Ms Kozlowski, 36, opened "Mandragora" six years ago. "I had a dream to open my own restaurant, and it was obvious for me that it should be a Jewish one. I always felt close to Judaism," she says. Jewish symbols are everywhere in the restaurant, and there are Torahs on the shelves and pictures of Israel on the walls.

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