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‘I always felt Jewish – I was thrilled to find out I actually am’: Meet the Jews who are finding their way home to Jewishness

With their Jewish roots hidden for generations, these are the people rediscovering – and embracing – their Jewish identities in adulthood

By Lianne Kolirin

7 min read

‘I always felt Jewish – I was thrilled to find out I actually am’: Meet the Jews who are finding their way home to Jewishness

Izabela is keeping tradition alive Photo: Piotr Arnoldes

Lublin’s non-Jewish restaurateur with a big Yiddish heart

By Anthea Gerrie

2 min read

Morissette appeared on Tuesday night's premiere episode of Finding Your Roots and explored her Jewish heritage. (Screenshot via YouTube)

Jewish heritage

Alanis Morissette discovers family’s Holocaust past

By Eliana Jordan

1 min read

Conservation area to be set up around Bevis Marks Synagogue

Jewish heritage

Conservation area to be set up around Bevis Marks Synagogue

By Simon Rocker

1 min read

Nigel Planer: 'I was a gravedigger before my rise to fame'

Nigel Planer: 'I was a gravedigger before my rise to fame'

By Richard Percival

2 min read

LONDON, ENGLAND - JUNE 05: Nigel Planer attends the Ronnie Barker comedy lecture with Ben Elton at BBC Broadcasting House on June 5, 2017 in London, England. (Photo by Jeff Spicer/Getty Images)

Nigel Planer: 'My father hid that he was Jewish until his 70s'

2 min read

Columnist Giles Coren at his home in north London. Byline John Nguyen/JNVisuals 17/05/2023

Cooking my way back to the faith... with gefilte fish

6 min read

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City of London to consider conservation area around Bevis Marks Synagogue

Public consultation to be held on move to protect Britain's oldest synagogue

By Simon Rocker

1 min read

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July 20, 2023 11:22

City of London to consider conservation area around Bevis Marks Synagogue

Why everything in the world can be divided into 'Jewish or Goyish'

Life can be complicated. We divide up the world into the only two categories that really matter

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June 15, 2023 13:52

Why everything in the world can be divided into 'Jewish or Goyish'

Giles Coren's chicken soup adventure

Our intrepid columnist's quest for a chicken with unlaid eggs to make the perfect broth

9 min read

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June 8, 2023 12:48

Columnist Giles Coren at his home in north London. Byline John Nguyen/JNVisuals 17/05/2023

London’s Jewish Museum to close indefinitely amid massive losses

The institution hopes to sell its current Camden home to fund move to more suitable location in central London

2 min read

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June 1, 2023 11:00

London’s Jewish Museum to close indefinitely amid massive losses

Schleps and the City: The art of being flexi-dox

The key to our multi-millennia success is our flexibility

By Naomi Greenaway

3 min read

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April 21, 2023 19:26

And Just Like That.

Ian Bloom

Pharaoh’s bizarre logic created the history of the Jewish people

It was wholly irrational of him to think the Jews would turn on Egypt. But if he hadn’t, our story would have ended in Egypt

5 min read

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January 12, 2023 09:06

Historical people photography.

Nicholas Lezard

By Nicholas Lezard

My Christmas gift to the children: we're Jewish!

This year, it was time to sit them all down around our Christmas tree and break the big news

3 min read

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December 29, 2022 14:45

Shabbat eve table.Woman hand lit Shabbath candles with uncovered challah bread and kippah.

Benjamin Vos

By Benjamin Vos

SAS Rogue Heroes continues the tradition of joke Jewish soldiers

This comic relief role for Jewish soldiers has been a constant for well over a century

5 min read

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December 1, 2022 12:51

SAS Rogue Heroes continues the tradition of joke Jewish soldiers

What tombstones can teach us

Jewish cemeteries can be used as a history resource

By Simon Rocker

1 min read

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November 13, 2022 13:26

What tombstones can teach us

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