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Lublin’s non-Jewish restaurateur with a big Yiddish heart
Mandragora’s owner Izabela Kozlowska-Dechnik is on a mission to preserve the dishes of a lost generation
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Alanis Morissette discovers family’s Holocaust past
The 90s rockstar didn’t know she was Jewish until she was in her twenties
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Conservation area to be set up around Bevis Marks Synagogue
Move by City of London will help protect the character of Britain’s oldest synagogue
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Nigel Planer: 'I was a gravedigger before my rise to fame'
The Young Ones star discusses his childhood, family life and earnings
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Nigel Planer: 'My father hid that he was Jewish until his 70s'
The Young Ones star has said his family kept their origins secret after fleeing Nazi Germany
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Cooking my way back to the faith... with gefilte fish
Growing up, nothing made me feel more Jewish than eating fish balls
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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
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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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Giles Coren's chicken soup adventure
Our intrepid columnist's quest for a chicken with unlaid eggs to make the perfect broth
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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
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Schleps and the City: The art of being flexi-dox
The key to our multi-millennia success is our flexibility
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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
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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
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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
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What tombstones can teach us
Jewish cemeteries can be used as a history resource
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Amy Schumer: Bullies used to call me 'Amy Jewmer' and throw pennies
The comedian said that growing up in a Catholic town she faced regular antisemitism
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